A few weeks ago, I discussed a Quora thread explaining “how Apple sends technology back from the future.” The gist is that Apple is phenomenally good at managing its supply chain, particularly for innovative technologies that haven’t hit the market yet. Bloomberg BusinessWeek expounds on that theme in its latest issue, beginning with the story [...]
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More on Apple’s Skill at Operations
Posted in Business, Technology, tagged Apple on November 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
How Apple Sends Back Technology from the Future
Posted in Business, Technology, tagged Apple on October 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Over on Quora, an anonymous author has a fascinating post about another dimension of Apple’s and Steve Jobs’ brilliance–managing its supply chain: Apple has access to new component technology months or years before its rivals. This allows it to release groundbreaking products that are actuallyimpossible to duplicate. Remember how for up to a year or so [...]
Why Free Is a Bad Price
Posted in Internet, Microeconomics, Technology, tagged Apple, Instapaper, Internet, Pricing on April 29, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Marco Arment is the brains behind one of my favorite apps. Instapaper allows you to store articles off the Web for later reading; very useful, for example, when I am surfing and come across an article I want to share with my students or use in a future blog post. And the editor of Instapaper periodically shares excellent reads that I might [...]
Three A’s of E-Book Pricing: Amazon, Apple, and Antitrust
Posted in Internet, Microeconomics, tagged Amazon, Antitrust, Apple, Internet, Microeconomics, Pricing on August 3, 2010 | 7 Comments »
A few months ago, I noted that Amazon and book publishers were tussling over the pricing of electronic books. Amazon had originally acquired e-books using a wholesale pricing model. It paid publishers a fixed price for each e-book it sold, and then decided what retail price to charge customers. Retailers usually sell products at a mark-up above the wholesale [...]
An Unusual Battle Between Amazon and Publishers
Posted in Internet, Microeconomics, tagged Amazon, Apple, Google, Internet on April 21, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Over at the New Yorker, Ken Auletta has a fascinating piece about the future of publishing as the book world goes digital. Highly recommended if you a Kindle lover, an iPad enthusiast, or a Google watcher (or, like me, all three). The article also describes an unusual battle between book publishers and Amazon about the [...]
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