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...
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...
The Network Carrier Dilemma
This article in Forbes magazine about network equipment providers enabling network carriers to expose service APIs (Application Programing Interfaces) started a...
2012 Predictions
Just for fun – and in no particular order – here are some technology industry predictions for 2012.
Intel’s ARMageddon II
Back in January of this year I published an article about the threat the ARM processor architecture would pose to Intel in the high margin – highly profit...
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...
Microsoft’s Nokia Nightmare
Last week saw a lot of speculation regarding Microsoft’s possible acquisition of Nokia’s mobile devices business. The rumor was quashed by Stephen E...
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 ...