From the monthly archives:

August 2010

Apple Doesn’t Target Markets. It Targets People

August 27, 2010 Uncategorized

It targets people. It focuses on users. And Apple lets them decide how and where they’ll use its products. This sounds simple, but in my experience very few companies think this way. Most startups write business plans that dredge up IDC data on market size, then define their target market (e.g., “Global 2000 enterprises”). Few [...]

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Half Of All Facebook Users Play Social Games — It’s 40% Of Total Usage Time

August 27, 2010 Uncategorized

But the most interesting thing Pleasants noted was that he recently heard (from his own source, apparently) that half of all users on Facebook now play social games. More impressively, 40% of total usage time on the service is spent on these games. That’s meaningful, of course, because “a huge amount the Internet is on [...]

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