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Platformonomics TGIF #124: April 17, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email No newsletter next week. News CAPEX Clues: After the Press Release I’m impressed only 40% of data center builds are behind schedule. That number is likely to…
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Fun With Numbers: New York Times Digital Subscriptions Edition
We run the numbers so you don’t have. There are four new options: Plan Description Rate (every four weeks) Free 20 free articles a month plus unlimited access to the home page, section fronts, blog fronts and classified. Plus free access via search engines, the Facebook and Twitter. $0 NYTIMES.COM + Smartphone app Unlimited access…
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Strategic Sprawl, We Do It All
HP’s new CEO has unveiled his strategy for the company. The debut was accompanied by an epic press release. Some of my favorite parts: “Connected World” – hopefully Paul Allen won’t call from the 1990s and ask for his strategy back. “…its vision to provide seamless, secure, context-aware experiences for the connected world” – it…
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Economic Forecasting in Alternative Universes
<dweeby econo-skepticism follows> The New York Times Magazine today has an article on the past, present and future of the Obama administration’s economic policy. It is a good if long read and chock full of inside baseball, political speaking points delivered with some repetition lest you miss them and, most entertaining, anonymous score-settling amongst the…
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A WARM-Up Act
As WARM (Windows-ARM) reportedly takes the stage in Las Vegas tomorrow, some thoughts: This is “big” Windows, not yet another repackaging of Windows CE. Remember Windows NT got its start supporting multiple CPU architectures. This has huge implications for Windows Phone’s future. It makes no sense to have two separate operating systems and application ecosystems…