TAG Heuer and the Future of the Luxury Watch Industry
Silke Koltrowitz, reporting for Reuters: TAG Heuer is pushing ahead with plans for a smartwatch to more directly compete with the likes of the Apple Watch and may make acquisitions to help drive the...
View ArticleProfitable and Uncopyable
Tim Cook, during last week’s earnings call: Apple Pay is off to a very strong start, and the feedback we are getting from both individuals and institutions is extremely positive. Today about 750 banks...
View ArticleWallets, Business Models, and the Coming Bifurcation of Mobile Technology
Apple’s business model is self-perpetuating, and the company’s success over the last ten years has set it up do things that no other company can — like anachronize wallets. Tim Cook, speaking at...
View ArticleApp Revenue and Customer Bases
App Annie, the app analytics firm, recently released its analysis of the app market in the first quarter. Two statistics in the report have received a lot of press: Last quarter, people downloaded...
View ArticleItaly, America, and the iPhone
From September 1st to December 19th of last year, I studied abroad in Rome, Italy. The experience changed my life for the better. Starting as a complete beginner in a foreign country and leaving it 110...
View ArticleApple Pay and the Future of Wallets
A little over one year ago, Tim Cook spoke at President Obama’s Summit on Cybersecurity. He said: We can imagine a day in the not-so-distant future when your wallet becomes a remnant of the past. Your...
View ArticleMicrosoft Word, Google Docs, and Millennials
This article was originally published on Tech.pinions, a website dedicated to informed opinions, insight, and perspective on the tech industry. It was then republished on Recode. ——————— The venture...
View ArticleMillennial App Usage
This article was originally published on Tech.pinions, a website dedicated to informed opinions, insight, and perspective on the tech industry. ——————— There’s been a lot of talk recently about...
View ArticleMore on ARM-Based Macs
Last month I wrote an article titled “Why Apple Will Switch To ARM-Based Macs”, and Stephen Hackett responded to it with a piece titled “Follow-Up On The Possibility Of ARM-Based Macs”. In his article...
View ArticleLeverage
Jean-Louis Gassée on why Intel isn’t manufacturing Apple’s A-series chips: I see three possible answers. One is that the 14 nanometer process is woefully late. Deliveries of some Broadwell chips (the...
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