Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android. It’s unforkable. Extremely detailed article on exactly what options exist for Microsoft (or anyone else) to fork Android – and why all of them are probably a bad idea for Microsoft. 

Windows 8 and the Cost of Complexity – stratēchery by Ben Thompson We missed posting this post from Ben Thompson when it came out last month, but it’s worth a read. He describes how windows 8, in hoping to slow the decline of PCs due to tablets, actually managed to hasten it. This is the …

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Two Bears, Revisited – stratēchery by Ben Thompson Excellent article by Ben Thompson. He revisits his earlier (also excellent) two bears article to show how those two fears – one for Apple, one for Samsung – started to come true last quarter.