Saturday, October 27, 2012

Watching the departed

I haven't seen the departed yet.
I know. I know. I had seen the HK original but not the Hollywood,
Oscar-winning remake.

Thursday, March 08, 2012

Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Segmenting the iPhone opportunity | @asymco - 3G is the real constraint for #iPhone penetration

One of the most important constraints on the purchase of iPhones is the state of 3G (or, more broadly, mobile broadband) networks. An iPhone is a mobile computer whose primary value is derived from high bandwidth data communication. Because this bandwidth is not universally available, the iPhone faces a restricted addressable market.

This is a different kind of argument.
Essentially, Horace is saying that the lack of 3G is what's restricting iPhone from larger market shares in China. He assumes that carrier partners can always sign on later. What is not mentioned in this article is whether much of this addressable market in China has the income to buy an iPhone. This exclusion seems to imply that he doesn't think that it matters as much as most other analyst thinks.

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Lol. @ew4n is like an old man. "Bad News: Almost everyone at MWC had an iPhone!"

It’s the service providers that are bugging me though. These folk are meant to be helping the operators compete with immensely cool new services that should completely eclipse anything Apple could dream up.

MWC was filled with service providers busy selling software and services in this regard. Yet most of their executives had already gone native.

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Monday, January 30, 2012

Writebox

Writebox I like to dump small text files in my Dropbox account as a commonplace book. A bit of a first world problem: while there is already a massive ecosystem of apps and programs for this task, I just feel better if there is an even more universal tool so I can truly access all my notes ANYWHERE. This is where Writebox comes in: it seems to pretty much work on any browser that support HTML5. It's hosted off the Google Apps Engine. The original author seems to only post in Japanese, so I cannot find out anymore about this "program" except for the fact that it works great. If you're Dropbox obsessed like me, you will love WriteBox.