Latest selection of the best stuff I’ve seen lately across the ScratchPaper focus areas of Apple, Google, Amazon, Mobile, Photography, Gadgets and other Big Tech, including items on whether Amazon cares about ever making money, why “80% marketshare” is total bullshit and how Netflix is using helium to get you your movies faster. Enjoy.
Apple, Google, Amazon
- Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won (Guardian)
- Surprising Growth Market – Apple Thriving in Japan (WSJ)
- Samsung is pulling another Amazon on Android, but this is even bigger (GigaOM)
- Amazon picked the Post Office, not UPS or FedEx, for an experiment with Sunday delivery (WSJ)
- Why an 80% market share might only represent half of smartphone users (Guardian)
- Maybe Google doesn’t care about using Motorola to make money (WSJ)
- Blockbuster, Netflix and the end of movies as a product (GigaOM)
- Helpouts From Google Connects People With Experts Over Live Video (NYTimes)
- Western Digital unveils 6TB, helium-filled hard drive (Fox)
- Amazon’ approach to find new TV hits could hold lessons for established media companies (WSJ)
- Amazon and the “profitless business model” fallacy (Eugene Wei)
- Amazon’s Incredible Money-Losing Business Strategy, In One Chart (Slate)
- To Catch Up, Walmart Moves to Amazon Turf (NYTimes)
- Apple’s Secret Retail Weapon Is Already in Your Pocket (BusinessWeek)
- Illinois court throws out ‘Amazon tax’ online sales law (CNET)
- How tech’s giants lost the tablet and smartphone war, even if they don’t know it yet (ZDNet)
- Why It’s So Difficult to Climb Amazon’s Corporate Ladder (BusinessWeek)
- With reported SMS addition, Hangouts looks to be Google’s answer to iMessage (GigaOM)
- Backstory: And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’ (NYTimes)
- What’s the most destructive force in tech? It might be closer to home than you think (WSJ)
- Google Alerts regains RSS delivery option it lost after Google Reader’s demise (TheNextWeb)
Mobile
- Smartphones allow for more workplace monitoring (WSJ)
- Wrangling Data From a Huge Variety of Fitness Gadgets (NYTimes)
- Samsung admits its software needs work (Guardian)
- Mobile is eating the world, autumn 2013 edition (Ben Evans)
- T-Mobile’s Wacky Plan to Trash the Wireless Business Model (BusinessWeek)
- Samsung is pulling another Amazon on Android, but this is even bigger (GigaOM)
- Tablets and smartphones: More factory revenue than all other consumer electronics combined (GigaOM)
- Maybe Google doesn’t care about using Motorola to make money (WSJ)
- The threat in the pocket (Economist)
- Google adds free voice calling to Google Hangouts for iOS, incoming calls to Google Voice (AppleInsider)
- The future of mobile computing: a phone, a mini tablet, and a super tablet (ZDNet)
- Wireless Fatcats AT&T and Verizon Had Better Not Miss the Internet of Things (BusinessWeek)
- Kevin Systrom, Instagram’s man of vision, now eyes up world domination (Guardian)
- Another solid report points to bigger screen on Apple’s iPhone 6 (BoyGeniusReport)
- How tech’s giants lost the tablet and smartphone war, even if they don’t know it yet (ZDNet)
- With Payment Code, PayPal believes it’s cracked the mobile payments enigma (GigaOM)
- One Wild Month for Wireless: Putting it in Context (Xconomy)
- 7 enterprise security improvements in iOS 7 (ZDNet)
Photography & Gadgets
- Smartphones’ next victim: high-end DSLR cameras (WSJ)
- Photo shootout finds iPhone 5s camera beats vaunted Nokia Lumia 1020 (TUAW)
- Sorry, Nike. You’re a Tech Company Now (BusinessWeek)
- On a New Jersey Islet, Twilight of the Landline (NYTimes)
- iPhone 5s Camera Shines in the Hands of National Geographic Photographer (MacTrast)
- The next big frontier for the smart home? Presence (GigaOM)
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