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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
The App Store: Good Deeds, Poor Communication
— Apple does the right thing when striving to keep its App Store free from promotional trickery - but fails to shed light on the process and, as a result, damages its reputation. — Earlier this month, the Apple App Store removed the popular AppGratis application from its shelves.
Apr 21, 2013, 11:00 PM–
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| Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note: |
A lesson of Public e-Policy
— The small Baltic republic of Estonia is run like a corporation. But its president believes government must to play a crucial role in areas of digital policy such as secure ID. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves must feel one-of-a-kind when he attends international summits.
Apr 15, 2013, 5:35 AM–
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Apple is Losing The War - Of Words
— Besides its ads, Apple says very little, confident numbers will do the talking. This no longer works as others have seized the opportunity to drive the narrative. — The day before Samsung's big Galaxy S4 announcement, Apple's VP of Marketing …
Mar 17, 2013, 3:30 PM–
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
The Next Apple TV: iWatch
— Rumors don't actual Apple products make, see the perennial Apple TV — and the latest iWatch rumors. This is an opportunity to step back, look at Apple's one and only love -personal computers — and use this thought to sift through rumors.
Feb 18, 2013, 4:15 AM–
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Dell Buyout: Microsoft's Generosity
— To perform painful surgery on its business model, Dell needs to take the company private. Seeing challenges in raising the needed $22B, Microsoft “generously” proposes to contribute a few billions. Is this helping or killing the deal?
Jan 27, 2013, 7:50 PM–
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Whitman: One Write-Off Too Far
— Meg Whitman's efforts to turn HP around follow a proven script. But, in her efforts to frame future results against a background of past misdeeds, she might have gone one excuse too far and engaged in a potentially embarrassing fight against Mike Lynch, Autonomy's founder.
Dec 17, 2012, 1:35 PM–
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
The enduring Apple TV Fantasy
— We all want TV Done Right, free of the Soviet Era set-top box, UI and opaque contracts. We imagine Apple will put all the pieces together. But what's desirable and “obvious” might not be so simple or soon... “When I go into my living room and turn on the TV …
Dec 9, 2012, 9:20 PM–
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| Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note: |
The Release Windows Archaism
— Television and media industry are stuck in a wasteful rear-guard fight for the preservation of an analog era relic: the Release Windows system. Designed to avoid destructive competition among media, it ends up boosting piracy while frustrating honest viewers willing to pay.
Nov 26, 2012, 6:40 AM–
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Apple Can Finish What Microsoft's Sinofsky Started
— In 2007, Microsoft introduces a new version of Windows called Vista, a grand name for what turns out to be an embarrassing dud. (Memories of my first and determining interaction with Vista can be found here.)
Nov 18, 2012, 6:15 PM–
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Minding The (Apple)Store
— As I've written many times in the past, I'm part of the vast chorus that praises the Apple Store. And not just for the uncluttered product displays, the no-pressure sales people (who aren't on commission), or the Genius Bar that provides expert help, but for the impressive architecture.
Nov 11, 2012, 7:30 PM–
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Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).