Category: Products
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Hackintosh thoughts
File this under the the First-World-Problems Dept. I have owned and used Apple computers since 1996. Here is the list: 1996: The first was shared with my brother, an Apple Performa 6400. 2002: iBook G3 600 MHz 2007: 15-inch MacBook Pro, Core 2 Duo (Santa Rosa) 2009: Late-2008, 15-inch MacBook Pro, Unibody I’m generally happy with…
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Thoughts on 2014 and 2015
So I’m starting to see end-of-year wrap-ups and predictions for 2015. It’s always good to take a look a back on what is happening in the industry, epecially at Kobo. Largely, a lot of the stuff I am citing is predicated on Mary Meeker’s “State of the Internet, 2014 ed” that she puts together for…
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Forbes.com reviews the Kobo H2O
Jordan Shapiro writes 3 Reasons Why Kobo’s Aura H20 is the Perfect Luxury E-Reader: Kobo is the quiet Kindle competitor–the underdog in the eReader market. They released their most recent premium eReader at the beginning of October. I’ve been reading on the Aura H2O ever since. I sometimes use my Kindle Paperwhite when I have…
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Feature Pruning: When and how to kill a product or feature?
Kobo hosted the November 5th, ProductTO MeetUp. I facilitated a session on “When and how to kill a product / feature?” The sessions went well. It was nice to participate in the larger community for once–it’s something that Kobo has never been good at, but I’m going to make a priority for 2014 to host these…
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Apple Pay vs. CurrentC: One addresses a customer issue, the other a business issue
CurrentC requires an app, password and QR Code to be scanned. It works for pre-paid, cash accounts. This is a solution to a business problem (lower transaction fees, better customer tracking) that is being touted as addressing a customer need. People like using their credit cards. The US economy (and Canada to a lesser extent)…
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Apple Pay: Addressing a customer problem
[stag_intro]I think one thing that people don’t understand about Apple is that they are really trying to solve customer problems. [/stag_intro] A lot of people think that Apple is about selling more hardware, creating lust for their products, but deep down, I feel that they are trying to address real problems and pain points for their customers.…
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Oculus Connect 2014 Keynote: Frank comments from John Carmack
This is a great keynote from John Carmack. It was like he said, I don’t have any slides, so fuck it, let’s have a good chat. He goes through some of the issues and proposed solutions for the keynote. Road to VR has a great write up on the salient points, but I encourage those…