][ stefano maffulli

Saturday morning is the best day to read more in depth analysis. I collected six articles that amused me, largely from the HBR blogs (one of the best source of food for thoughts, IMHO).
If you, like me, are fascinated by innovation and by the physicality of objects I suggest you to read Apple iPad’s Product [...]

Tags: apple, disruption, hbr, innovation, ipad, kindle

I can’t get my head around one feature of Google’s superphone: why did they put that scroll-click-button at the bottom of the phone? Shouldn’t the touch screen be enough to use the phone? Besides, being so close to the bottom edge, can it really be used? If anybody is still thinking that Google wants to [...]

Tags: apple, disruption, google, iphone, mobile, nexusone

I’ve been waiting for many years for a cheap all-in-one desktop computer, something like an iMac that would look good in a home office without carrying the Apple-tax of an operating system I don’t like and the premium price of the Mac cult.
That’s why I’m speechless looking at the Asus Eee Top: touchscreen and only [...]

Tags: acer, asus, computer, disruption, eee, hp, microsoft, netbook, software

My architecture professors repeated ad infinitum that an image is worth a thousand words. Following is a pictures that clearly shows how Apple will dramatically increase its revenues in the next year:
It’s not (only) the cool design or the (un)cool software: it’s mainly the reduced (~60%) bill of material you see in the picture (compare [...]

Tags: apple, disruption, innovation, marketing, revenues, strategy

I’ve placed a bet that Microsoft will change radically its business model when Gates will leave his chair to Ray Ozzie, so I was trying to get a clue from Ozzie’s speech at the MIX last week. I wasn’t too impressed by his keynote, though, it was too much in the old known ‘corporate [...]

Tags: business, disruption, innovation, microsoft, ozzie

I’m not sure that Bill Hilf’s declarations about Microsoft’s Open Source strategy give a complete picture of the corporate strategy in the near future to compete in a sector that radically changed since Windows came to light in the ’90s. I think that Microsoft is being disrupted and will have to split and go [...]

Tags: apple, business, competition, disruption, floss, gates, google, microsoft, ozzie