Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft and the Battle for the Internet - Brossura

Arthur, Charles

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9780749464134: Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft and the Battle for the Internet

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ISBN 10: 0749464135 ISBN 13: 9780749464134

Casa editrice: Kogan Page Ltd, 2012

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Which of Apple, Google and Microsoft had an office with a "drawer of broken dreams" ---and what (real) objects lay inside it?
When did Microsoft have the chance to catch Google in making money from search ---and who vetoed it?
Why did Google test 40 shades of blue on its users?
How long did outside developers wait before asking to write apps for Apple's iPhone after Steve Jobs announced it?
Who said that Microsoft should have its own music player -- and why did it fail?

Digital Wars starts in 1998, when the internet and computing business was about to be upended -- by an antitrust case, a tiny startup and a former giant rebuilding itself. Arthur looks at what are now the three best-known tech companies and through the voices of former and current staff examines their different strategies to try to win the battle to control the exploding network connecting the world. Microsoft was a giant -- soon to become the highest-valued company in the world, while Apple was a minnow and Google just a startup. By February 10 2012, Apple was worth more ($462bn) than both Microsoft ($258bn) and Google ($198bn) combined.

The chance had come from tumultuous battles between the three. To win their battles:
Apple used design, the vertical model of controlling the hardware and software and a relentless focus on the customer to the exclusion of others.
Microsoft depended on the high quality of its employees' programming skills and its monopolies in software to try to move into new markets - such as search and music.
Google focused on being quick, efficient and using the power of data analysis - not human "taste" - to make decisions and get ahead of would-be rivals.

With exclusive information from interviews with current and former employees of the three companies Arthur also addresses:
- What the inventors of the hard drive used in the iPod thought it would really be used for
- How Apple transformed the smartphone market
- Which of Android or Apple forced Microsoft to abandon Windows Mobile
- What happened to Microsoft's tablet plans

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Recensione:

"A fascinating peek inside the three most important companies of the 21st century." (Barry Collins, PC Pro)

"Charles Arthur makes expert sense of the complex politics of the new digital world order in a truly compelling book that lifts the veil on the people - and the events - who have built the most important technology of our time." (Aleks Krotoski)

"Rarely do I enjoy books as much as Charles Arthur's new Digital Wars...this really excellent book builds on Arthur's journalistic work over the last 25 years, and combines deep insights about the evolution of these companies with fascinating interviews with people who have been involved from the inside in their evolution. Do get hold of a copy and read it." (Tim Unwin, Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) and UNESCO Chair in ICT4D at Royal Holloway, University of London)

Descrizione del libro:

Apple, Google and Microsoft are part of people's lives around the world; millions depend on their products and services

Examines new information that has come to light since Steve Jobs' death, including how he opposed the idea of apps for the iPhone for months and his threats against Eric Schmidt of Google over Android's mobile software

Written by the technology editor at the Guardian who has a huge following online and in print

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