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“Mr. Jobs’s next big thing is buttressed by mounting evidence of a post-PC era in which silicon, not software, will be king. That is likely to bring wrenching changes in the technology world, largely dominated by Microsoft for the last decade. Under Microsoft’s hegemony, hardware became a low-cost commodity. Now it may be software’s turn.”
― The New York Times, The Rise of Apple

“The US tire industry in the 1930s, TV manufacture in the 1960s, and autos in the 1970s all suffered the effects of decision processes that were unresponsive to change because of the range of obligations that went with quasi-monopoly. In all three cases, the attack came from the rise of cheaper sources of production in Asia.”
― Haydn Shaughnessy, Platform Disruption Wave: A New Theory of Disruption and the Eclipse of American Power

“everyday life is about to get strange or amazing, depending upon how comfortable you are with devices that talk back.”
― Robert Tercek, Vaporized: Solid Strategies for Success in a Dematerialized World

“The spotlight really needs to shine on the creation and dissolution of markets rather than on the cheap or low-cost producer as the pivotal impact of disruption.”
― Haydn Shaughnessy, Platform Disruption Wave: A New Theory of Disruption and the Eclipse of American Power