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It's funny to read this 8 years later.
Flat market? Hmm. iPhone? Android?
On the other hand: he was spot on with WLAN. Total Fail.
The Future of Telecom
I spent some time at the RVC SoftEdge Conference today. The panel on telecomm was pretty depressing. Dr David Cleevely, of the consulting firm Analysys, says that telecomm revenues worldwide are going to shrink over the next ten years as the business gets increasingly commoditized. He also says t...
Brad,
Google has axed several web services with total data loss. They did in Pages (partial data save), Notebook (total loss), a failed pre-facebook social networking site and a few more.
They've also essentially killed several web services by abandoning development.
The problem with the cloud is much bigger than this. The real answer is SimpleNote -- completely portable data.
See my latest rant with abundant links:
http://notes.kateva.org/2010/12/yahoo-kills-delicious-don-say-you-weren.html
Time to Think About the Stability of Web Services...
Google may come to rule the world because it is the only web services company large enough to be able to commit to keeping all of its web services up and operating for the foreseeable future. That is a powerful competitive advantage. John Gruber: >Daring Fireball: **What’s Next for Delicious?:*...
And when a keystroke logger compromises your OpenID credentials, you lose everything everywhere.
We need at least 3 sets of credentials (un/pw pairs) through OpenID/OAuth corresponding to 3 security classes
Class I: utterly disposable
Class II: painful to lose, but ok for non-secured machines
Class III: cannot lose. Use only only on trusted, secured machines (ex. Personal machine running iOS)
The Dirty Truth About Web Passwords
This weekend, the Gawker network was compromised. This weekend we discovered that Gawker Media's servers were compromised, resulting in a security breach at Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Deadspin, and Fleshbot. If you're a commenter on any of our sites, you prob...
Brad, how about posting without his name? He has a gross insight deficiency, but the truly wise would consider that a form of disability and hence of diminished responsibility.
We don't really need his name -- the post stands alone.
We Are the Super Rich
**UPDATE:** Lots of people showing up from the quite bad *New York Times* article about this, which Jonathan Chait has already dealt with, and leaving comments that don't add to the conversation. So note that (i) I will prune comments that I think add to misinformation, and (ii) please think abou...
Congratulations Brad -- this may be your hot post of the year. Excellent work, very well said.
I do have some modest sympathy for Henderson. He's receiving the roasting many deserve but few receive. He probably has a very small insight node in his frontal cortex, so it's unlikely he'll learn anything from this. Not his fault really, it's a sort of adaptive disability.
In Which Mr. Deling Responds to Someone Who Might Be Professor Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
I had published a link and a long excerpt from Michael O'Hare's rant after reading University of Chicago Law Professor Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx . And now somebody purporting to be University of Chicago Professor Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx writes: >I'm shocked and saddened at the personal nature of these attacks. Wow. ...
Even if the quote was offbase, the impact has still been much greater than I expected.
The thing we're forgetting is that the current iPad requires a computer. I wonder how many Windows boxes are turning into oversized peripherals for iTunes sync.
What will happen when Apple eliminates the need for an iTunes host and syncs to MobileMe instead?
It Looks as Though Notebook Sales Have Peaked...
If you had told me nine months ago that Apple's iPad would be so successful that notebook computer sales would start to drop, I would simply not have believed you. Philip Elmer-Dewitt: >Notebook sales growth goes negative. Can we blame the iPad yet?: Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty issued a report ...
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