Sony, Too John Gruber, on Daring Fireball, talking about the decline in camera sales: Compare and contrast Sony’s approach to dealing with the decline in point-and-shoot camera sales with Apple’s approach to the decline in iPod sales. Apple is skating to where the puck is heading; Sony is skating to where the puck is at [...]
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Apparently I Won’t Be Watching Warner Brothers Movies
January 31, 2012Netflix Deal with Warner Brothers Includes Delay In Queues In my on-going sequence of posts ridiculing Hollywood, we can add another chapter. Now you won’t even be able to add Warner Brothers movies to your Netflix queue until they have been released for purchase 28 days. Stupid. For you movie executives who are paying attention, [...]
What Will Apple Do With $100 Billion?
January 27, 2012Apple, by now, has passed the amazing $100 billion mark in near-term and long-term cash and equivalents. I thought it would be fun to take some guesses as to what Apple might do with all of it. The easiest guess is they won’t do anything. The company was very close to going bankrupt in 1997 [...]
Owning Hollywood, Apple Style
January 25, 2012Apple’s Massive Numbers and Some Context Of all the great nuggets pulled off the web by MG Siegler yesterday regarding Apple’s earnings call, my favorite is this one: Apple’s profit last quarter was $3 billion more than all of Hollywood’s gross box office receipts for all of last year, notes Eric Spiegelman via Anthony De Rosa. So… Apple [...]
SOPA: A Fundamental Question Of Trust
January 23, 2012[My apologies to anyone who read the oddly posted version yesterday. It's gone now. Some weird WordPress hiccup. Below is the actually completed version I meant to publish.] — Here’s the question that is going to screw Chris Dodd: who do you trust more, the tech industry or Hollywood? Once upon a time, Americans spent [...]
