Google said that they are generating $2.5 billion of revenue from mobile devices, and some mistook that to mean Android is responsible for $2.5 billion of revenue. It isn’t—that includes search ad revenue, AdSense and AdMob, all of which also generate revenue from iOS devices, and
Edward Luce: In the words of David Autor, a leading labour economist at Harvard University, the labour force is suffering from a growing “missing middle”. In short, the middle-skilled jobs that once formed the ballast of the world’s wealthiest middle class are disappearing. They are being supplanted by
Austan Goolsbee: Certainly the countries of Southern Europe must rein in excess. In the long run, however, even the deepest of cuts won’t suffice. Southern Europe needs to grow or it will never control its debt levels. But with the euro zone keeping Southern Europe uncompetitive, the region’s
Jason Fried (http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3047-the-obvious-the-easy-and-the-possible): Much of the tension in product development and interface design comes from trying to balance the obvious, the easy, and the possible. Figuring out which things go in which bucket is critical to fully understanding
Joaquin Luna, an 18 year-old A-student in Texas, committed suicide because he didn’t believe he would be able to become a citizen: He also followed politics closely, reading in the newspapers about the harsh immigration laws passed in other southern states such as Alabama and Arizona. “He
I posted this last year, but I want to discuss it again. From a cut section of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead: After the explosion, his voice, his hands moving slowly as he spoke, like planes smoothing unseen walls, raised broad, clean streets and houses in the likeness of what
Jean-Louis Gassée wonders if there’s a bigger reason for a Facebook phone than defending against Google: I can’t help but think that there’s more to this hypothetical Facebook phone than a play against today’s Google+ in defense of today’s Facebook money pump. There must
Andy Matuschak: People list plenty of reasons why kids should learn how computers work. They could automate repetitive tasks; they’d be empowered to create in all kinds of media; they’d learn powerful new problem solving approaches. That last point (so innocent seeming!) has gripped my imagination most thoroughly:
Shawn Blanc: For the past year and a half I’ve been reading books on my iPad and never felt a need for a Kindle. However, after now using the Kindle Touch for several hours a day over the past few days, I feel as if all the accolades I
Chris O’Brien fears Apple’s success was dependent much more on Jobs than we have recognized, and thus he thinks their “golden age is over”: That is the question the book left me asking: Who is the person at Apple who will wake up at 3 a.m. and
Ben Brooks: That’s my largest fear with the Google X lab. Google has proven many times over that they can indeed make some really cool stuff. The problem is that they largely fail at creating practical, consumer, applications for their products that they dream up (Google Wave, for example.
Claire Cain Miller has a good piece on how Larry Page is changing Google and on his management style (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/technology/googles-chief-works-to-trim-a-bloated-ship.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all): The changes began just a week after Mr. Page