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The cheap iPhone that wasn't

By Farhad Manjoo
Sep 14, 2013 7:32 AM - At the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., CEO Tim Cook did unveil two new iPhones rather than just one. But neither of these phones is the cheap iPhone that people had been predicting. Indeed, Apple didn't really change its pricing strategy in any meaningful way. Across the globe, it will still be charging the same for its phones as it always has.
Microsoft-Nokia: A good deal that came too late

By Farhad Manjoo
Sep 7, 2013 6:14 AM - This week, Microsoft announced its unsurprising, $7.2 billion plan to buy Nokia's smartphone division. Nokia is the world's largest manufacturer of phones that run Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system (which is a bit like pointing out that, at 5-foot-6, I'm the tallest member of my immediate family). Microsoft is buying Nokia to control both the hardware and software in its devices; this move, Microsoft promises, will improve the phones themselves and make them easier to sell. But this is the antithesis of the company's Windows strategy.
Who should run Microsoft next?

By Farhad Manjoo
Aug 31, 2013 5:06 PM - There's only one guy in the world who should be running Microsoft right now. Everyone knows his name (rhymes with Gill Bates), and everyone knows why he'd be perfect. Microsoft's problem isn't that it doesn't make money -- it does, gobs of it, every quarter, like clockwork. Microsoft's problem is not that it doesn't make products that the world isn't using widely.
If anyone can save The Washington Post, it's Jeff Bezos

By Farhad Manjoo
Aug 11, 2013 7:26 AM - As a billionaire many times over, the most obvious and immediate benefit Jeff Bezos brings to The Washington Post is his bottomless wallet. But billionaires are a dime a dozen. Bezos' real value to the Post -- the reason that people in the media are both shocked and optimistic about this deal -- isn't what's in his wallet. It's what's in his head.
Why Apple, Google are the best of enemies

By Farhad Manjoo
Aug 10, 2013 7:26 AM - In the past, these companies maintained largely separate businesses. Apple sold hardware. Google did search. Facebook was a social network. And Amazon was an online store. But now they're all vying to become not just the most successful firms in tech but the most consequential companies in any industry, anywhere. I think we often pay outsized attention to the rivalry, and we don't look enough at the friendly cooperation among these companies.
Google's got the best way to watch TV

By Farhad Manjoo
Aug 3, 2013 6:00 AM - Google's Chromecast doesn't do much. But what it does do, it does so consistently well, and so cheaply, that it's quickly became a primary part of my media-watching routine. Chromecast, a little USB-stick-sized device called a dongle, streams Netflix, YouTube and websites to your TV.
NeverWet? More like Oftenkindawet

By Farhad Manjoo
Jul 27, 2013 7:19 AM - In 2011, LancasterOnline, a news website covering Lancaster, Pa., published a story about a seemingly magical invention by a local company. The product was called NeverWet, and it did exactly what its name suggested: When you sprayed the coating on any item, the object would be rendered practically immune to water and other liquids. There was only one downside to NeverWet -- you couldn't buy it.
The dumbest thing Apple ever did

By Farhad Manjoo
Jul 21, 2013 7:49 AM - The battle for the e-book market was, at its heart, a fight between Steve Jobs' and Jeff Bezos' differing business philosophies. Amazon was bent on keeping prices low, even at the cost of profits. Apple, as ever, wanted to make sure that it could make a bundle on e-books.
I tried the Android. Now give me back my iPhone!

By Farhad Manjoo
Jul 20, 2013 7:48 AM - It's unclear if Google makes much money from Android directly -- by some estimates Google makes as much from ads on Apple's iOS devices as it does on Android machines. But there's no question that Android has helped lower the prices of smartphones across the globe, which can only help Google's ad business. It's hard to call Android anything other than a resounding success. Well, except for one small thing: Most Android phones are lousy.
Google Plus does photos best

By Farhad Manjoo
Jul 13, 2013 6:54 AM - Almost two years ago, I predicted that Google would soon kill off the network, although now that prediction is looking pretty shaky. While Google has failed to turn its network into a place to catch up with your friends -- because your friends are on Facebook -- it has turned it into an amazing place for pictures.

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