It’s not about the product. That’s the dirty little secret of all these tech companies, the goal isn’t to create a good product, but to SELL OUT! It’s like a game of musical chairs, where the buy-in is millions, and everybody’s afraid to be left without a seat at the table when the music stops. […]

That’s Yahoo’s new business model. To sneak in advertorial amongst the real posts to try to get you to click on them so they can make money. And you wonder why no one trusts the press. David Carr did a good article about that today: “A Novel Lays Bare Media Ills” Which is why credibility […]

Cool, disruptive, cheap. Pick one. Pick two and you’ve broken the paradigm. Pick all three and you’re a ubiquitous product that eliminates all comers and has established companies scratching their noggins in the dust. The Fire Phone has none. One of the main reasons people rush to buy the new iPhone and Galaxy is because […]

“YouTube to block indie labels who don’t sign up to new music service” Welcome to the winner take all economy. Or, to put it another way, did you really think Google and Facebook were FREE? You can’t have it both ways. Partake of the service and then bitch that you don’t like the terms when […]