https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/public/ recent bookmarks from guardiantech 2011-04-15T07:34:54+00:00 http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/the-tragic-death-of-the-flip/ guardiantech flip joshhalliday camera cameras https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:2b8d0aa92f6f/ 2011-04-13T19:31:43+00:00 http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2011/04/real-lesson-of-ciscos-billion-dollar.html guardiantech "If Pure Digital had remained independent, would it have innovated quickly enough?  Maybe not; it's very hard for a young company to think beyond the product that made it successful.  But merging with Cisco, and going through all of the associated disruptions, probably made the task almost impossible."

There are examples of enterprise-oriented companies which can do consumer, but you won't need two hands to count them.]]> charlesarthur cisco flip https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:c558fc71e4fd/ 2011-04-12T21:36:05+00:00 http://kara.allthingsd.com/20110412/video-after-cisco-sacrifices-his-baby-to-the-gods-of-wall-street-flip-founder-jon-kaplan-speaks/ guardiantech
Cisco's decision is already looking like the crazed actions of someone (looking at you, John Chambers) who hasn't realised that day-to-day share price movements don't actually *mean* anything to the company itself. They don't affect its cash position, revenues, profits... nothing.]]> charlesarthur smartphone flip cisco https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:21503c2a26fc/