NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Research In Motion(RIMM_) will report its latest quarter after the close on Thursday.
As Horace Dediu pointed out on his Asymco blog, last yea, RIM reported that it sold 13.2 million phones. Yet, in the prior quarter reported in April, RIM only reported selling 11.1 million phones.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Apple(AAPL_) took a few shots at Google(GOOG_) last week during their WWDC keynote.'
Even Siri poked fun at Google's names for their different versions of their operating systems (Ice Cream Sandwich, Cupcake and FroYo): "Who came up with these names, Ben & Jerry's?"
But the really stunning stat to come out at the conference was from Scott Forstall, who is the head of Apple's mobile software. He pointed out that more than 80% of Apple's iOS users were running the latest version of iOS. However, only 7% of Google Android users are running the latest version of their software.
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You don't need an MBA to "fake it until you make it" and rise to middle management in your company. Just learn these 89 cliches.
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In the field of social psychology, there’s a concept known as the “fundamental attribution error.” Believe it or not, it has a lot to do with Silicon Valley and tech companies.
Basically, it says that all humans (including you and me) are born biased to over-value the importance of personal characteristics in driving others’ outcomes, but under-value the situational factors in driving others’ outcomes.
Yet, when we explain our own achievements in life, we are biased to over-value our personal characteristics as explaining our successes while also over-valuing our situation factors in explaining our failures.
From Wikipedia:
As a simple example, if Alice saw Bob trp over a rock and fall, Alice might consider Bob to be clumsy or careless (dispositional). If Alice tripped over the same rock herself, she would be more likely to blame the placement of the rock (situational).
In Silicon Valley, this type of thinking is so prevalent, you could say the “fundamental attribution error” has become “groupthink.” Everyone believes that the sun rises and sets on their pillow case.
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A few weeks ago, I said that Ross Levinsohn needed to make 3 phone calls in his first day on the job as interim CEO at Yahoo (YHOO).
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Apple TV is going to be huge and create enormous change to the industry. But it won't kill the cable companies.
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Tim Cook doesn't have to be Steve Jobs. He just has to be Tim Cook. That's good enough.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- There were several interesting takeaways from the Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday for Apple(AAPL_) investors. Here are a few....
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My appearance from CNBC yesterday about Apple.
[Long AAPL]
Facebook - and all companies - have a founding DNA that is the key to their success. However, when the competitive environment shifts, what served them so well in one generation is a mismatch to the next generation.
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Apple‘s (AAPL) CEO, Tim Cook, spoke on Tuesday night at the All Things D conference about a wide range of subjects.
One area he was pressed on by Walt Mossberg was Siri, Apple’s voice-automated personal assistant that comes as part of the new iPhone 4S.
“When it works, it works really well,” said Mossberg. “But a lot of times, it doesn’t work.”
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Earlier this week, I was on CNBC, discussing my post from Forbes from 5 weeks ago titled “Here’s Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next Five Years.”
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NEW YORK (Real Money) -- There are many people who think Apple(AAPL_) is going to do to the world of TV what it did to the world of phones with the iPhone.
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Here's my appearance on CNBC this morning about Facebook and Google.
It stems from this Forbes article.
