Jeremy posted this morning about Garmin charging $70 to update the maps on his Nuvi to the latest & greatest maps. As I talked about before, I believe Apple is aiming to make the iPhone the premiere mapping device and here Garmin is giving users another reason to ditch their devices.
Additionally, do most consumers really [...]
Another reason GPS devices are in trouble…
June 16th, 2008 ·
Tags: Gadgets · iphone · mobile
Adobe Flash & Qualcomm deal - bad news for Silverlight
May 28th, 2008 ·
Adobe and Qualcomm announced a deal today to integrate Flash into the BREW developer platform. The most significant parts are:
going forward Flash developers can count on Flash being present on Qualcomm powered handsets (most prominently Verizon’s handsets)
that there will be no Flash royalty that handsets will have to pay to include the Flash runtime which [...]
Tags: Gadgets · microsoft · mobile · software · web
Semiconductors economics
May 16th, 2008 ·
There is a really interesting article the IEEE Spectrum by Clayton M. Christensen, Steven King, Matt Verlinden, and Woodward Yang. It basically tells the story of them apply the TPS (Toyota Production System) to semiconductor manufacturing and results of doing this. Pretty amazing results. The most amazing change is that this methodology allows smaller [...]
Content goes from king to the new loss leader
May 5th, 2008 ·
By now it’s fairly well-known that selling digital music downloads is a tough business with thin margins. However, across both online as well as brick-and-mortar retailing, music and video is being used more universally as a loss leader and it’s not clear what this trends means for content in general. For example:
for Apple, [...]
