Thanks to our friends who attended our Food and Wine pairing Wine Tasting last night. It was a delightful evening. icloud.com/photostream/#A…

I know it’s really going to be spring soon: they have ads for fall events at North Station.

Because of Amazon’s ongoing kerfuffles with publishers like Hachette, I am switching all my ebook purchases to Apple and O’Reilly. #ygma

The streaming music biz:

1. Stream music for free
2. Pay label royalties.
3. Struggle to upsell subs to paid svcs
4. ???
5. Profit!!

#ygma

For all claiming that Apple needs Beats for streaming, remember that iTunes makes more money than all streaming services combined. #ygma

iPhone and Beats brands for smartphones without letter/ number suffixes would be very Apple-like branding; echoes of iMac and Macbook. #ygmd

A dual-brand Apple phone strategy would eliminate phone names like iPhone 5C. You’d just have iPhone and Beats with no suffixes. #ygmd

YG analyst @bmetodiev notes that HTC didn’t get value from its stake in Beats; why should we expect a different outcome with Apple? #ygmd

Fundamental question about a rumored Apple-Beats deal: what strategic Apple goal does it fulfill? Apple doesn’t do pointless M&A. #ygmd

Why is it that when I’m desperate to email an attachment on the train, AT&T thinks that now is when I should use HSPA instead of LTE?