> ## the “of course” model of innovation diffusion > > People won’t buy a product if they can’t understand it immediately. They can’t understand it immediately if their worldview doesn’t already have a readymade place for it. And their worldview won’t have a readymade place for it, if they’ve never seen anything like it before. > > Steve expertly wields the powerful tool that is *the feeling of recognition.* > > That feeling tells us, *hey, I’ve been here before, and good things happened, and people were nice to me*…

> *By Jason Schwarz of [](http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/story/10709986/1/google-could-plummet-as-apple-war-takes-toll.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA#) [www.economictiming.com](http://www.economictiming.com).* > > **Google’s**([GOOG](http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/story/10709986/1/google-could-plummet-as-apple-war-takes-toll.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA#)) in trouble. I’m forecasting the next 24 months will take this stock back to its first-year initial public offering levels of $300 a share. The Internet search giant has ruffled the wrong feathers. > > When I hear **Apple*…

> Let’s get back to my original question: what would I have done? We’ll never know for sure. But I suspect that I would have thought very hard and then gone with my first impulse: return the phone to Apple. If it’s been stolen, then Apple is the victim of a crime and the ethical answer is to side with the victim. > > (Given that this is a new smartphone and not a mechanism for electrocuting any iPhone user who attempts to jailbreak their device.) > > If I was told…

> So when exactly can you expect for Flash to hit your Android phone? Brimelow says no specific dates are being disclosed just yet. Adobe’s CEO, however, divulged some general details during [a recent interview](http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4148785/adobe-ceo-on-creative-suite-5-and-apple) with the Fox Business Network. > > “Google and RIM and Palm are going to be releasing versions of Flash on smartphones and tablets in the second half of the year,” CEO Shantanu Narayen said. > > This is a change from Adobe’s previous target launch date for Flash on Android;…

> Remember the old Avis car-rental slogan? “We’re Number 2. We try harder.” > > That slogan came to mind when a reader, an iPhone app developer, wrote to let me know how hard Google, maker of Android, the No. 2 app phone software, is trying to woo iPhone programmers to write their apps for Android phones instead. > > > “I’m the developer of the Texts From Last Night app for the iPhone. Anyway, I received an e-mail yesterday from someone at Google claiming to be in their Android Advocacy Group. He basically…