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The Phone Company
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- thalur 18y agoInteresting if true, but it reminds me a bit of the xbox360 vs ps3 vs wii "which sold most" fan fights of the past where each side quoted only the most favourable numbers for their favourite. I guess the real challenge will be when Android results come out (presumably not until the next quarter?).
- Maktab 18y agoYet this isn't really the same, because it's not necessarily about who outsells whom. That's just added icing on the cake in terms of this article. The real significance though is how the iPhone has so swiftly become both a major success and a revenue stream on the same scale as the Mac and iPod divisions for Apple. In less than eight years the company has transformed itself from a company reliant on a single niche product to one with three mostly independent but self-reinforcing and financially lucrative sales pillars. That transition is nothing less than remarkable.
- wizlb 18y agoJohn Gruber has way too much time on his hands.
- ionfish 18y agoIn fairness, writing articles like this is his job.
- gstar 18y agoTrue. That he can make a living from it baffles me, though. Fair play to him for managing it.
- unalone 18y agoThe way I see it is: magazine writers can make money from writing articles for papers. Gruber does something like that, except he self-publishes. He makes money the same way - advertising - he creates a gorgeous aesthetic to his site to convince people to read his stuff... he's like a one-man magazine.
- greyhat 18y agoHmm... evidently one man's gorgeous is another man's austere, monochrome, and drab.
- unalone 18y agoI call it gorgeous because it does away entirely with distractions. It's easy-to-read, it's got minimal-but-present branding with the star logo, and I like the way he handles URLs - which is one of the only times he has any styling present. It's extremely uncompromising and I find that reading his essays feels very good on my eyes, which is really the only way I can judge online content. Compared to TechCrunch or the Gawker bunch or even a lot of tumblelogs, I think his is gorgeous. I'd even put him above Kottke by a wee notch in terms of aesthetic, though it's admittedly close.