How not to win points with bloggers
As someone who writes a weblog that gets thousands of visitors a week, I receive an e-mail like this every few days (the names have been deleted out of politeness): === From: [deleted] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:56 AM…
Harvard Business Publishing: Umair Haque - What Apple Knows That Facebook Doesn’t
Too often, we don’t recognize the power of platforms - even in Silicon Valley. Nilofer Merchant, Rubicon’s CEO, writes frequently on the topic and ties it together with strategy. The piece below by Umair Haque, draws an interesting difference between…
Anticipation ...
Persistent rumors that Google is launching a mobile “platform” based on open business models could culminate tomorrow, November 4, 2007.
Here’s the link “href=”http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20071103/tc_pcworld/139240” I found. Bunches more online this afternoon so I have to believe that something BIG is going to be announced tomorrow.
ONE big implication: we have now two amazing companies going head to head not so much on “inventions” but through business models. One, Google, is fully about “open” and one, Apple, is fully about “closed”. (And then there’s the plethora of operators / handset providers who continue to try and control the agenda on mobile development but may be losing ground based on these moves.)
Categories: Emerging Business Models
Tags: Apple , Business Model , Google , Mobile , Open
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