Quick Takes: The RIM Tragedy, Lame Market Research, Ebooks Closer to Tipping, Flip vs. Cisco, Google as Microsoft, Nokia and the Word "Primary"

Short thoughts on recent tech news... RIM as Greek tragedy I wrote last fall that I was worried about RIM's financial stability ( http:/...

Will E-Readers Eat the Tablet Computer?

The consensus prediction in the tech industry is that tablet computer sales will swamp sales of ebook readers. The Huffington Post is takin...

The future of publishing: Why ebooks failed in 2000, and what that means for 2010

This post is adapted from a speech I gave at the O'Reilly Tools of Change publishing industry conference in February. It's a great t...

iPad: The (attempted) Windows killer

(Well, you've got to admit, that's not something you'll be reading on most other weblogs today.) Ten hours after the Apple iPad ...