30 March 2012

Death Spiral ~ Mace on How A Platform Dies...

Michael Mace on his Mobile Opportunity blog wrote about the Death Spiral, how a computing platform dies, anticipating a few years ago what has befallen RIM today...
"The early symptoms of decline in a computing platform were very subtle, and easy for a business executive to rationalize away. By the time the symptoms became obvious, it was usually too late to do anything about them. The symptoms to watch closely are small declines in two metrics: the rate of growth of sales, and gross profit per unit sold (gross margins)"
Read more and see it summed in a graphic...

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