Friction Justin Williams talks about the friction of using an app. Pretty well written. Here’s an excerpt: Here’s what happens when I download a new application from any app store. I launch the app and judge how long it takes to let me see content. I look at the user interface to gauge how I [...]
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Friction
January 12, 2012Disruptive Only In a Rear-View Mirror
January 5, 2012Interesting quote from Clayton Christensen (via Bryce.vc and this presentation): Not only are the market applications for disruptive technologies unknown at the time of their development, they are unknowable. A couple of days ago Chris Dixon wrote the following: New startup ideas are all around you, in the improvised behaviors of people you know. It takes [...]
Who’s Your Daddy and What’s Your Killer Feature?
January 3, 2012Why Web OS Really Failed, and What it Means for the Rest of Us Michael Mace dug into the webOS story, too, today with another excellent post. We kind of said the same thing. Mace said it was because there were no deep pockets to fix the flaws and no killer feature to get anyone [...]
Finding Your Inner Milkshake
January 2, 2012The hiring and firing of milkshakes and candy bars Horace Dediu is one of the most influential and insightful analysts in the mobile market these days. I just started listening to his podcasts. The one I linked to above is an interview with Bob Moestra, who is executing on a simple Clayton Christensen idea. The short [...]
2012: Ending the Gatekeepers
January 1, 2012Over at avc.com, Fred Wilson commented that he thinks 2012 will be the year that the movement goes mainstream. He sees five events — Ron Paul’s rise in popularity, Occupy Wall Street, Reddit as an populist building community and a couple of technology things — as setting us down this course. While I agree with [...]
