Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Steve’s Bio: A Personal Perspective — Let me jump to the conclusion: This is an extraordinary book on many levels: informative, entertaining often, insightful, sympathetic but not indulgent; it rises to its unusual subject and manages to render its complexity in a straightforward manner that attests to the biographer’s talent.
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Google’s “Interesting” Week — Let’s start gingerly, with Nokia. You’ll recall the indignation when Nokia threw Symbian under the Windows Phone 7 bus and osborned its existing product line. Nokia dead-ended Symbian handsets, causing sales to plunge while everyone waited for the new MicroNokia smartphones.
Jean-Louis Gassee / Monday Note:
HP: What Léo Apotheker’s Decisions Mean — Last Monday evening, hours after Google’s $12.5B gamble on Motorola Mobile (MMI), I had an intriguing idea and began drafting a Monday Note to explore its ramifications. It started like this: … Building and dismantling the business case …
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Google’s SOE (Strategy of Everything) — As a Venture Capitalist, I occasionally hear entrepreneurs lay out a Strategy of Everything, a plan to be all things to all people. (SOE rhymes with TOE, the Theory of Everything, the Holy Grail of mathematical physics, only less attainable than the sacred object…)