Who are the consumers of textbooks? And how do you define a consumer? We had this discussion recently on the podcast Real Tech for Real People episode 97. We were discussing the increasing use of tablets, and specifically iPads, in...
In the last post I wrote about the perversions of incentives that cause the problems in the health care system. Â Let me point out that it’s not that we are behaving irrationally. Â We are behaving completely rationally–given the situation we...
Writing as an academic, I desperately want to get my hands on (the demand data for) the iPad.  Specifically,  I wonder about the “pre-order” demands that have been placed. I am not writing this as a “hater” or critic of the iPad....
I was struck yesterday by the word choice that was presented when AT&T’s executive announced that they are “considering incentives to get consumers to reduce their data usage.” (See the story “AT&T Considers incentives to curb heavy data usage“) What...
I would say I feel vindicated. I mean, after all I had been ranting that the iPhone was overpriced. But then, as you may recall, I blogged about “temporal price discrimination” and how dropping the price on the “Jesus phone”...