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Zune Text Based Interface Design When Zune was released to the world I found it curious that few commented on the the Microsoft choice of interface – a text based menu system vs. Apples icon alternative. To navigate through the Microsoft menu system – you scroll through text descriptions of the various options – “Music”, “Videos”, [...] Microsoft Zune HD So the New York Times has posted yet another article critical of Microsoft’s failure to launch products that earn any wide spread appeal. Surprise, surprise. This time the Kin fiasco. If there’s any hope for Microsoft it is that they deliver products/services customers want, before they demand them. No more focus groups, expensive consultants [...] What Canadian Television Networks need to do online. If Canadian Television networks have any desire to survive the next decade they have to do something very radical – join together. If CTV, CBC and Global want to survive they need to create one website Canadians can visit to watch anything they can normally get on cable – [...] Image via CrunchBase It’s no secret that Apple is cash rich, currently sitting on 40 billion in reserves and in the past few months they’ve been publicly stating that they have some desire to begin spending it. Well I have an idea: buy Nintendo (or a large stake in the company). Why? Well [...] Apple’s original PDA, helped establish the market Palm took over, in part due to major innovations the company made. Leapfrogging – It’s a phenomenon that I see occur time and time again, where the industry leader is blindsided by a leap in innovation – an innovation they should have owned. Yet so many organizations still [...] Image by Alex Osterwalder via Flickr If BlackBerry hopes to be around in five years and not end up as another Palm – they need to do a radical rethink of their business model. BlackBerry is not going out of business and it will be healthy for the next few years – but their USP is [...] |
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