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Apple, Shazam, and the Song Recognizing Speaker

by Ian Rosenwach 12.12.2017

The benefits to Apple Music from the Shazam acquisition are clear. The Music Industry Blog did a great job outlining the prospects of Apple using Shazam’s underlying data and customer knowledge to boost Apple Music. I want to look at it from another angle – HomePod and the voice-controlled speaker market. This is an area with […]

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Map + Search Service

by Ian Rosenwach 10.18.2013

This is an idea for a map app that is focused on creating an optimized route for people that want to run multiple errands. The user could input search terms for things they want to get done, and the service finds the best route that accomplishes each of your goals. For example, you want to […]

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Twitter’s IPO and revenue from mobile advertising

by Ian Rosenwach 9.17.2013

It’s a go! Since Twitter announced their IPO, one of the main topics of discussion has been how well positioned they are to generate substantial revenue from mobile advertising. The relative weakness of Facebook’s mobile ad strategy caused grief for the company and their investors during their IPO and the following months. So, it’s no […]

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App discovery – when will app search evolve?

by Ian Rosenwach 8.16.2013

Ben Evans has a good post on the history of content discovery on the web and the implications for app discovery.  I want to talk specifically about discovery through search, and why search isn’t as effective as it could be for app discovery. Inputting a keyword requires the user to have at a sense of […]

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Comparing Rdio and Spotify iOS apps

by Ian Rosenwach 2.3.2013

As an avid music listener and product manager, I like understanding the different music products on the market. I started using subscription streaming services with Rdio about 3 years ago, switched to Spotify about a year ago, then decided to switch back to Rdio a few weeks back. Not as much because Spotify was not […]

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We are in the “portal days” of local discovery

by Ian Rosenwach 1.22.2013

On the web first there was Yahoo! – the portal to everything. It was a directory of websites. Users navigated from page to page to find what they were looking for. Once Google emerged and popularized search, the portal days were over. Google’s insight was that there was enough data captured in the form of […]

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With mobile, everything’s different.

by Ian Rosenwach 6.10.2012

“On-the-go” is the new “sitting still”. As stated by Mary Meeker at AllThingsD – Mobile traffic now accounts for 10 percent of overall traffic and overall mobile revenue is surging, but companies built around desktop-web economics are scared by the fact that mobile ads are seen as far less valuable: five times less valuable than […]

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History Repeats Itself – Google is the Microsoft of Mobile Computing

by Ian Rosenwach 11.2.2009

History is repeating itself in the mobile marketplace. Some of the companies have changed, but the business strategies and even a few of the players are still the same. In looking back to how the PC market developed, Microsoft took an open approach. They licensed their OS to lots of hardware makers and said “you […]

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