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thinkdisruptive
9y ago
Almost none, unless it was something I'd read every day + found more than 1/2 articles relevant + useful. Won't even pay for NYT if only 5 or 6 articles/month add significant value. We need a subscription business model
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15y ago
I appreciate that. I got called an "Apple fanboy" and worse at the time. Ironically, I didn't own any Apple products when I wrote this, and still don't have an iPhone (even though Blackberry is getting killed by the iPhone and now Android),
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15y ago
Wow, thanks Justin. Nice to see my old analysis getting new play. In hindsight, I think this illustrates perfectly how there are dimensions other than "performance" (which is pretty hard to define anyway) on which you can come in below the
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15y ago
Yes, this is absolutely an example of the disruptor being disrupted. RIM has killed themselves by trying to out-increment features on a handheld email machine all the while ignoring, or failing to perceive as relevant how both iPhone and An
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15y ago
@IssaacL. You are right that most people don't know what a disruptive innovation is. That derives from too many believing that it means "innovation" of any kind, or "better" than anything else in the market because they equate the endgame (