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Crypto Currency and Social Media  Starting in the 19th century, transportation technology emerged which changed the world. Railroads, automobiles, and airplanes all brought freedom of travel never before imagined in history. Revolutionary changes are still happening in the 21st century, but they’re now in the form of moving data.
Increasing Profitability vs Diversifying Risk  It seems that every hardware, media, and telecom company is chasing media content these days. And with good reason. Competing solely on the basis of price is a brutal business. Original content is one of the few things proven to engender customer loyalty and cause people to switch to your service.
Apple Is Pushed to be Better, Tesla…Not So Much  The latest owner satisfaction survey by Consumer Reports magazine actually had Tesla ranked above any other car company in the world. And yet, this is despite recent insider information which revealed that as many as 90% of Tesla’s vehicles roll off the assembly line defective. If these are both true, what does that say about Tesla and their customers?
An EKG Might Be Nice, but I Want Fast Wireless Transfers  Even though Apple’s iPhone X now has the best screen of any smartphone in the world and the new iMac Pro has enough power to impress even jaded computer enthusiasts, I find the Apple Watch to be Apple’s most exciting product. Both because of what it means to the future and because of the large performance gains that it gets every year. But there is one aspect of the watch that Apple is still improving quite slowly: Podcasts.
Thank You President Trump  On Sunday morning, I heard liberal economist Paul Krugman attempt to downplay the impact of the Republican corporate tax cuts. He argued that the impact on jobs would be minimal, but he didn’t explain why. I thought it might be helpful to explain where he must be coming from. Because even if he’s right, everyone should be happy.
Balancing Quality and Speed for New Product Launches  Brett Williams had an interesting piece in Mashable last week detailing how the Apple Watch has taken over the wearables market.
 I was listening to the MacWorld podcast recently when an interesting question popped up. Would Apple (AAPL) ever make iTunes purchases available to Android users? The consensus on the show was that, no, Apple would never do that because it’s not the type of thing that they would do.
In Defense of “Series 0”  When Apple (AAPL) released the first-generation Apple Watch back in April of 2015 it took a fair amount of criticism for being slow. But now with over two years of using an Apple Watch, I actually appreciate using the first-generation version, aka Series 0, even more now then back in 2015. Apple greatly improved watchOS with the third and fourth iterations. A first-generation Apple Watch on watchOS 4.2 is a fundamentally different device. One that is still worthy of use today.
The Rise of the eBay Pirates  USA Today has a story out written by Natasha Vaughn that describes how prices on popular toy items are getting driven up by “toy bots”.
 There were two “threats” regarding Apple’s iPhone that were getting repeated so much early in 2016 that a lot of people started to believe them. First, that software platforms posed a threat to Apple’s premium iPhone business. Second, Android was dragging down smartphone average selling prices for everyone and Apple needed to cut the iPhone’s price to stay competitive.
Violation of Rule #1  To this day Tesla (TSLA) refuses to share quality data as forthrightly as other automakers. But with the recent mass layoffs at Tesla some of the former employees are revealing the real story behind the scenes, and it isn’t a pretty picture. Reporting for Reuters, Alexandria Sage writes about how former Tesla employees are communicating what the recent internal quality metrics are like.
Will Theatres Go the Way of Retail Stores or Arcades?  The tension between moving data vs moving people/packages is disrupting many industries. Another business coming to grips with new technology that threatens their bread-n-butter is the movie theatre business. Will movie theatres respond more like retail stores or video game arcades?
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Robert PerezManufacturing and distribution analysis since 1993. 
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