Our health care system is broken. We pay too much for too little. Obamacare is too compromised to do much about the real cost of health care. It’s primary purpose is to provide care to the uninsured it seems although eliminating preexisting conditions is a good thing. I support that concept and am willing to … Continue reading
Author Archives: avram miller
So what does Intel, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Walmart the Cable Networks have in common? You will know soon!
One of the greatest errors companies make is mistaking who their real competitors are. I first encountered this when I was working for Digital Equipment Corporation (1979 to 1983). At that time, Digital thought the Data General, another mini computer company founded by former Digital employees, was its main competitor. While in reality, it was Intel and … Continue reading
Meet President Boehner: Lead by the Koch Brothers, the Republican’s are not trying to destroy the Presidency they are actually trying to take it over
I really have trouble believing that the Republicans are as dumb as they appear. While the Koch brother’s may be evil, it is hard to imagine that they are stupid. So maybe this is what’s going on. Debt Limit and Government shutdown creates constitutional crisis Everyone is wondering what is the Republican’s end … Continue reading
How John Boehner becomes the Democrats Bitch and Saves America
The recent behavior of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has given me an opportunity to learn a lot more about how our government works or, more appropriately, does not work. We have outlasted the Constitution It is pretty clear that we have outlasted the wonderful constitution that our founding father’s provided. Yes, it was a … Continue reading
Factory of broken dreams: Will the Googleplex be next
Intel just announced that it would close the Hudson Manufacturing Facility it acquired from Digital Equipment Corp in 1997. The press release from Intel said “the Hudson plant has been used to make a variety of low-end chips found in many electronic devices.” The closure of this plant will not mean much to people other than the thousand or so people directly affected. The exception to this are the few pioneers who vision and drive created it in the first place. They dared to dreamed big and lost. While they understood the potential of semi-conductor technology and large scale integration, like all of us at that time, they did not understand that the computer industry was about to be turned sideway and that companies that were vertically integrated would fail like Digital would fail.
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Syria, one person got it right
Last thursday, I wrote on my facebook wall, the real reason Obama had asked congress to vote on the attack in Syria was to get a reason to delay so he could meet with Putin and Putin could talk with Assad but giving up his chemical weapons. Well it is happening. But the press has … Continue reading
What to iWatch
There is a small chance that Apple will announce it’s iWatch tomorrow at it’s iPhone centric event. I am not even sure that Apple is developing a watch but it is likely. Either that or iWatch is something that Jobs does from beyond. I think the iWatch will be a totally closed system like the … Continue reading
Slow day on the blogosphere
It is the labor day weekend and I am feeling kind of lazy. It is very warm in Sonoma and it is time to get back in the pool. I had expected to be curled up with my iPad watching the bombing in Syria but Obama pulled a fast one. He has now not … Continue reading
The First Bank of Amazon or the End of Advertising as we Know it.
Twenty years ago, I proclaimed that Advertising would be the Killer App of the Internet. Now I am pronouncing the end of Advertising. What will replace it as a source of revenue for media companies. It will be the First Bank of Amazon. Read more! Continue reading
Will the Killer App of the Internet Get Killed
Sometime around 1993, I gave a keynote speech about the Internet to the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas (where else?). There I stated that the killer App for the Internet would be Advertising. I guess I was right. The internet has not only been fueled by advertising revenues but it has challenged the … Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 