Apple’s new TV app seems like yet another incremental step in the direction of a TV service. Jan Dawson More Quotes by Jan Dawson More Quotes From Jan Dawson Apple now has the most compelling and coherent lineup of laptops it’s had in several years, but Apple’s laptops no longer enjoy the kind of big hardware advantage they’ve had in the past. Jan Dawson latest-headlines Though today's products are a good start, it takes a long time to change deeply-entrenched perceptions, and Microsoft has its work cut out in trying to convince potential customers that its products are more than just the workhorses they've always been for many, workflows and cultures in many creative companies are built around Apple products, and that won't change overnight. However, Microsoft's timing for these new products is great, coming at a time when Apple has been accused of neglecting its creative community. Jan Dawson tech Although it's hard on the Samsung brand for all this to be in the news so much over the last few weeks, killing the phone off is better than letting it drag on even further. Jan Dawson tech Apple's investment in Didi likely spurred Uber to think harder about doing some kind of deal here, uber and Apple have been partners in other markets, so for Apple to side with Didi must have been something of a red flag that things weren't going to go Uber's way. Jan Dawson business Apple and the rest of the tech industry will dig in their heels. i think that this case could become the trigger for a bigger discussion around encryption and backdoors, but it’s very hard to tell how it will all go. Jan Dawson tech To the extent that Microsoft's vision for Windows 10 is one operating system that runs on devices in all sorts of shapes and sizes, there's been a big piece missing in that vision so far, and that's phones, we've known Windows 10 was coming for phones, but we haven't seen all the details of what a smartphone designed for Windows 10 really looks like. Mobile is easily the largest and most important category of computing devices today, and Microsoft hasn't had a compelling story in this space for years now. This week is their chance to show they can still be relevant in mobile. Jan Dawson tech Uber is smart to have this flexibility in different markets and not have the same features everywhere, the downside is that it is very costly. Jan Dawson industrials It seems to be an option that a lot of people are taking advantage of because you do away with a tablet to some extent. Jan Dawson tech Apple has the advantage where it can move both hardware and software forward year on year, whereas Samsung has to rely on [Google’s] Android for the software side. Jan Dawson tech It does mean that they don’t get sucked into the iPhone news cycle as badly as they did last year. Jan Dawson tech This will be a big deal in creating a much more useful set of apps for the Watch, watch apps could feel slow and unresponsive at times. Jan Dawson most-read-articles
