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Platformonomics TGIF #123: April 10, 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 News Anthropic: A $3 Trillion IPO? Fractional CEO, teller of big tales, and stickler for securities law Elon Musk is floating a 100 times revenue multiple for…
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Blue Haze
IBM announced something today they called the “Blue Cloud” initiative that is a “game-changing model for Internet-scale computing”. Some thoughts and questions: This is a seriously half-baked announcement. The press release rambles on and on yet says very little. This “next major advance in computing” merits a single page on IBM’s web site with two paragraphs of text and a stock photo. IBM…
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Soundbite of the Week
(And it is only Wednesday) Symbian’s vice president of strategy John Forsyth noting that the Open Handset Alliance is not exactly the first time vendors have proclaimed Linux the future of mobile phone operating systems: “It’s a bit like the common cold. It keeps coming round and then we go back to business.”
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Pulling Out the Old Playbook
There are a couple of basic business strategies: Obtain more marketshare than anyone else. This should be considered the preferred approach. Failing that, gather up the rest of the also-rans and band together against the dominant player. This approach is usually accompanied by frequent use of the word “open”. If/when that fails, hire some lobbyists because it is…
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Still More IBM Patent Tomfoolery
Some august commentator recently wrote: Evidently IBM decided in September of 2006 they would stress filing patents with “significant technical content”. They are going to “sharply reduce” the filling of bogus, aka business method patents. The company had no comment on their tens of thousands of patents filed and awarded before that date. Further questions…
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Book Review: Options – Fake Steve Jobs
For the uninitiated, Fake Steve Jobs originated as a blog purportedly written by the CEO of Apple (but whose author was eventually revealed to be Dan Lyons who writes for Forbes), where he shares his inner-most thoughts in a way the head of a public company would never even remotely consider, not even in a world…