{"id":4338,"date":"2010-05-07T22:33:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T20:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=4338"},"modified":"2010-05-18T19:04:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:04:28","slug":"thoughts-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=4338","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buy a new Apple device, cloning an old one is easy. Buy a new RIM or Microsoft, cloning an old one is hard. Hence Apple&#8217;s growth.  RIM, Microsoft have to learn that the key is to get you to buy new products as frequently as possible.  Many people don&#8217;t buy a new windows laptop because it takes a day of hard work to move your info and programs.  Apple makes it so easy.<\/p>\n<p>Flash may be buggy, but the non flash iPad surfing experience is like watching B&amp;W TV.  I really can&#8217;t use my iPad regularly.  All sorts of unexpected websites don&#8217;t work.  Today it was one for adopted pets.  Could not see pictures in it.<\/p>\n<p>Downturns are great moments to gain market share.  Think of Google when it got started. If you are a survivor in a downturn you are the predominant colony, as with bacteria exposed to antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>In January mobile users consumed 139MB of data. A year earlier each used only 38MB. Mobile data usage is exploding.  3G networks can&#8217;t cope. Hence Fon&#8217;s growth.<\/p>\n<p>I find the iPad most useful in situations in which laptops are frowned upon.  I had a board meeting at www.ie.edu and nobody used laptops.  The iPad was discreet and did not offend anyone.<\/p>\n<p>MBA programs are countercyclical as opportunity costs fall in recessions. Last year was IE&#8217;s best.<\/p>\n<p>The Bologna Agreement is like the euro of University education.  It unifies the European educational market for the institutions well position to take advantage of it.<\/p>\n<p>Most in power in Europe would rather see Greece sink, than the Euro rise again.  But not totally because most of the Greek debt is in the hands of German banks.<\/p>\n<p>I just watched TV. Hadn&#8217;t done that in ages. Was surprised to see commercials not made for me.Products I could not possibly buy.<\/p>\n<p>The paradox of the music industry is that it&#8217;s being destroyed out of love for music.  If people didn&#8217;t care about music they would not make such efforts to get it without paying rights.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/8f1f0ad9-0dcc-4be1-8b48-5d492a2a9b39\/\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=8f1f0ad9-0dcc-4be1-8b48-5d492a2a9b39\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"\/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=4338\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buy a new Apple device, cloning an old one is easy. Buy a new RIM or Microsoft, cloning an old one is hard. Hence Apple&#8217;s growth. RIM, Microsoft have to learn that the key is to get you to buy new products as frequently as possible. 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