June 5, 2007
Volume 12, Number 19
CHRIS SHIPLEY: WHAT IF JOBS AND GATES HAD TEAMED UP?
The tech industry buzzed last week over what many deemed a historic meeting between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates on the stage of the Wall Street Journal's schmooze-fest, D: All Things Digital. While some might have wanted fireworks, the two icons of the PC Age were cordial and humble (a word I'd not often use to describe Jobs).
As they spoke of 30 years of competition and cooperation in the most mutually complimentary terms, I couldn't help but wonder what might have been.
If instead of Steve Wozniak and Paul Allen, what if Jobs and Gates had teamed up together? My guess is that software and design would be decades ahead of where it is today, and not just because cooperation would have pushed further than the competitive squabbles that pre-occupied these two giants through much of the '80s and '90s. The industry would have been propelled by a powerful, vision-rich, and - most importantly - complete brain trust.
Read more at:
http://www.demo.com/demoletter/what_if_jobs_and_gates_had_teamed_up.php
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KEITH SHAW: MOBILE MARKET REMAINS FICKLE
As a new player enters the mobile phone market, another one is entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Apple announced this week that its heavily hyped iPhone will be available to consumers on June 29 through its exclusive relationship (five years!) with AT&T.
Meanwhile, Amp'd Mobile, a Los Angeles wireless phone company that marketed its phone and mobile entertainment services to young, hip consumers, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week. Amp'd Mobile had raised more than $360 million in funding from several investos (including MTV Networks and Universal Music Group), but found itself more than $100 million in debt, including $33 million owed to Verizon Wireless for using its network and $16.4 million to Motorola for cell phones.
While I'm not suggesting that Apple is in trouble with its iPhone launch, I think lessons can be learned for mobile phone companies about figuring out the types of applications and services customers want on their mobile phones, as well as the type of customers you need to reach. While they differ greatly, Apple and Amp'd Mobile are offering customers basically the same thing - multimedia entertainment offerings on a mobile device.
Read more at:
http://www.demo.com/demoletter/mobile_phone_market_remains_fickle.php
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DEMOTRACKER: The latest from DEMO alumni
* Tiny Pictures (DEMO 2006) launches Radar for Facebook application, letting Radar users post pictures and videos on their Facebook profiles.
* Qtech (DEMO 2007) upgrades its reQall reminder mobile phone service.
The complete DEMOtracker archive is located at http://www.demo.com/demoletter/weather_report.php
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