Driving Lightning

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?

If you are at Symantec Vision, catch @MaribelLopez on stage today!

Attending town meeting this evening (and probably subsequent evenings) to enjoy pure one person, one vote democracy at work.

It’s so much easier to see what you are doing wrong in #d3js once you get something to display on the browser screen.