Economics and Platform Architecture (Part 3)
Part 2 of this series of articles looked at how transitioning from scarcity to an abundance of fundamental computing resources enabled the historic one-to-one r...
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Economics and Platform Architecture (Part 2)
Part I in this series of articles outlined the impact that the economics of scarcity has had on both software architectures and the structure of the computer in...
Economics and Platform Architecture (Part 1)
The underlying economics of computing resources have always had a profound impact on development of computing architecture and in-turn the structure of the comp...
How ‘Do Not Track’ Will Transform Internet Business Models
Imagine a world where all internet browsers are required to present users with a simple question: “Do you want your online browsing activity tracked, reco...
Microsoft’s Pivot – A Plan to Dominate “Devices and Services”
We are currently witnessing a major pivot in Microsoft’s core business model. It is starting to become clear that – as Steve Ballmer recently announ...
Why Microsoft Shareholders Should be Very Concerned
This weeks Partner’s conference has once again exposed Microsoft’s complete lack of any credible consumer strategy. On the one hand Ballmer claims h...
The Jobs Are Not Coming Back
The NY Times published an interesting article today the impact of robotics on manufacturing jobs using Amazon’s purchase of robot maker Kiva Systems as an...
2012 Predictions
Just for fun – and in no particular order – here are some technology industry predictions for 2012.
Chemical Reaction Dynamics as a Model for Technology Platform Competition
In various corporate meeting rooms at Samsung, Microsoft, HP, RIM and Google eager teams of engineers, marketing folks and freshly minted MBAs are trying to fig...
Intel’s ARMageddon
In ten years we’re going to recognize this week as the moment Intel ceded its leadership position in the global chip business. Microsoft’s decision ...