Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One
Forbes has a nice timeline of GoPro’s last 10 years, from it’s humble beginnings hawking 35mm cameras in VW bus to it’s multibillion dollar present.
The Moral of the Story: If you’re building a gadget that isn’t a smartphone or smartphone accessory (say, a watch), seek out the few blind spots where smartphones can’t go. The fastest growing US camera company makes cameras for moments where people would never dare use their smartphone.
Why I switched from iPhone to Android
One particular callout is that Android has a better keyboard than iPhone. For that matter, so does Windows Phone. Oddly enough, iPhone now has one of the worst smartphone keyboards around.
John Cassidy for The New Yorker:
During the past year alone, as Cook pointed out today, its revenues have risen by forty-eight billion dollars—more than those of Google, Microsoft, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Nokia combined.
You might think that would be enough to satisfy the velociraptors on Wall Street, but you would be wrong.
The entire piece is worth the read.
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