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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
The items Apple will start off with, are accessories which are low volume, lower priced. If theft in this scenario would be a problem tomorrow, then it should have been a problem today; as Apple only gives you an email receipt and I have no
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
But it goes beyond that. Your local chains make you go through a pre-installed POS for payment. Square disrupted the POS by setting it free inside the store, each store rep armed with their own POS running on a smartphone. Apple, by doing t
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Apple disrupting point-of-sale(droplabs.co)
8 points by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago|7 comments
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Less is more(droplabs.co)
2 points by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago|0 comments
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
Imagine what this would do to the PC sales in India? PC Sales were at 4.68 million in 2010 and it was expected to go up 22% in 2011. A significant chunk of those potential customers will opt for a far cheaper and mobile Aakash now. Ofcourse
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
Its funny that I was about to post this on Twitter here when I saw Jeff's post: Successes and Failures melt away in front of a two year old. Validations and affirmations happen by way of a smile. That being said, I cant wait to go home and
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Google Wallet - A Missed Opportunity?(droplabs.co)
15 points by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago|8 comments
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
Agree with you on all points. Its not trivializing what Square Offers and its achievements, but they have a long way to go.
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Square Announcement disingenuous, or at the very least ambiguous(postary.com)
3 points by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago|2 comments
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
Wonder what portion of the $2B in transactions are those that come under $6 on which, Square actually loses money. Also, it averages $2500 per merchant, which seems that these are low volume merchants, and unlikely that Square has recouped
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
If Amazon Fire succeeds in cannibalizing sales in the low cost tablet range (Fire being a wrapper for all of Amazon’s digital media products in the cloud), Playbook stands to offer nothing other than the device. RIM seems like a company com
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
You cracked me up there, with that last bit. Its so bloody true, not all the time, but there is that state-affinity thing going. Do understand, cultures vary widely state to state, cuisine varies, those are some of the reasons. But at the s
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
Upvote for not only interesting data analysis, but also for being objective about it. I clicked on the story, expecting a rant for one or the other, but found numbers speaking loudly than opinion ever could. Thanks.
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
As more of us rely on our mobile devices to browse the net, and as this trend picks up, wouldn't this mean that Amazon has a unique vantage point to see what people are searching for, in terms of content, products etc? With each product ite
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
BankSimple is as someone else pointed out, just a simpler, sleeker interface to banking. Brett King's Movenbank tries to reinvent banking.
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
A month ago, I wrote a paper on the emerging mobile payments ecosystem, which devotes a section to Google Wallet, its strategy and the challenges it face. You can read the whole paper here: http://www.box.net/shared/fsiv1bu7ugrpp814aucx G
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
From the post: Yet the same people who led the 30-person MSN Search team retained key leadership positions in the 3,000-person Bing team. How, exactly, does this happen? I would say, more often than not when you work in large corporations
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I authored a Mobile Payments Ecosystem Study
3 points by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago|0 comments
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
If you are not offended in five minutes after leaving your doorstep, then you dont live in a free country. Facebook being the Identity provider of the net is a scary thought. As does anyone that big.
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
Analytics is here to stay. Unless this practice is regulated (which in turn can end up being heavy handed and far reaching and in turn could discourage innovation) analytics will remain a big piece of what IT will focus on, mainly in gettin
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
Imagine a phone built purely for Facebook, which is built to their specs (low battery usage) and uses half the bandwidth of current smartphones when it comes to updating FB status, uploading pictures etc. Facebook could have a winner in a c
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
i disagree. Lobbying and all can come later. Any bank who decides to take advantage of this new mobile channel both to engage their customers and are able to get a customer to change his payment modalities, they can recapture the mindshare
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
Mobile payments using contactless technologies such as NFC goes beyond the transaction at the Point-Of-Sale, in terms of providing a context to my payment. Even though it maybe that it would be easier to take your credit card and swipe fast
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
I met with a Director at a local consulting firm a couple of days ago and while discussing the growing mobile practice at his firm and talking of the team in charge of it, he referred to the lady who held the reins in growing the practice,
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies." — NelsonMandela
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
Take something that sells for $10 and find a way to offer it for $1. And not before long, you can expect an ecosystem to flourish. Technology getting commoditized is a beautiful thing.
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
Does anyone share my opinion that Netflix should have taken this opportunity to clarify as to why these price hikes are inevitable, due to the sky high content licensing costs they themselves have to pay to the content providers to keep str
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
4 among us today, in an aging vessel slipped the surly bonds of earth, and with outstretched hands touched the face of God. - Borrowing from Peggy Noonan, Aaron Sorkin & John Magee
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
I like the "Book Trading" idea. I would have brought my copy of "Founder Stories" by Jessica. Being in Richmond, I wish I could come down to DC. By the way, if you live in and around Richmond, reply back to this so that we can put something
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by Cherian_Abraham 15y ago
N9 is fucked, not just because of the lack of third party devs developing for the MeeGo platform. As per Engadget, Nokia plans to have N9 on sale on Sept 23, right after the iPhone5 launch and several Android, WebOS and Mango phones that wi

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