Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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CE

Consumer Electronics and Devices

Industries

Prices per unit of performance fall continuously in this industry, so profit goes to whoever is early in a category, holds a brand premium, or controls a component or an operating system that rivals cannot match quickly. Sony led with the Trinitron and the Walkman and then lost digital music to Apple and flat panels to Samsung; Nokia sold about 40 percent of the world's handsets in 2007 and sold its phone business to Microsoft in 2014. Product cycles are short, unsold inventory loses value fast, and assembly sits with contract manufacturers whose labour conditions are part of the story. The literature covers Sony's founding and its contest with Samsung, the Nokia and BlackBerry collapses, Apple's engineering and design practice from the inside, and the factories where the devices are built.

Books 9Recommenders 6

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  1. Made in JapanAkio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, 1986
  2. Losing the SignalJacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff, 2015
  3. Creative SelectionKen Kocienda, 2018
The Sony VisionThe Sony Vision
T3 The Sony Vision
Nick Lyons · 1976
Open LibraryGoodreads

Contemporary account of Sony at its engineering peak

Made in JapanMade in Japan
T3 Made in Japan
Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura · 1986
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Sony grew from Tokyo's ruins, and how Japanese and American business differ.

Sony vs SamsungSony vs Samsung
T3 Sony vs Samsung
Sea-Jin Chang · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads

Strategy comparison explaining how Samsung overtook Sony.

Insanely SimpleInsanely Simple
T3 Insanely Simple
Ken Segall · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Simplicity as Apple's operating principle, from the adman who worked with Jobs.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Austen Allred and 1 other

Losing the SignalLosing the Signal
T3 Losing the Signal
Jacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

How BlackBerry maker Research In Motion rose to dominance and fell after the iPhone.

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Mohnish Pabrai

Creative SelectionCreative Selection
T3 Creative Selection
Ken Kocienda · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider account by the engineer who built the iPhone keyboard.

Recommended by: Chris Dixon, Jordan Hughes, Keith Rabois

Transforming NOKIATransforming NOKIA
T3 Transforming NOKIA
Risto Siilasmaa · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Nokia's chairman on selling the phone unit to Microsoft and buying Alcatel-Lucent.

Dying for an iPhoneDying for an iPhone
T3 Dying for an iPhone
Jenny Chan, Mark Selden, Pun Ngai · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Foxconn from the inside; the labour cost of the contract model.

BuildBuild
T3 Build
Tony Fadell
Goodreads

Fadell built the iPod, the iPhone, and Nest. Build is structured as a book of advice organized by career stage and product phase. It is unusually honest about failure, about the texture of executive dysfunction, and about what it actually takes to ship physical products at Apple-level quality. The section on storytelling for products is particularly strong.

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