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Product Experience Measurement Reimagined

With the Delight Scale, we crafted the 10 best questions to capture customer experience. The results are scored, weighted, and aggregated into a product’s Delight Score. This approach has proven to lead to a much more holistic measurement of customer experience, and actionable product insights to truly separate great products from average ones. Delight is the bedrock of every loyal and engaged customer.

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Why Use the Delight Scale?

Whether we look at the consumer market or the enterprise market, we are witnessing a transition from hardware, software, and service as an individual source of value to the total experience that arises from their combination. It is about the overarching experience a user receives that distinguishes a good product and a great product. Understanding how the different parts of the offering or even the different features of one component contribute to the overall experience provides valuable insights.

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The Android Show 2026: Android’s Intelligence System Era

Google’s Android Show was more important than a pre-I/O feature preview. It was the clearest evidence yet that Google’s decision to give Android its own stage is the right one. Google started carving Android out this way last year, and this year’s show made the case for continuing that separation much stronger. The continued separation…

May 12, 2026 / Carolina Milanesi

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Google announced Googlebook today, and the most useful sentence in the entire post is one Alex Kuscher slips in early: “moving from an operating system to an intelligence system.” That line tells you how to read everything that follows. What Google didn’t sell For months the industry conversation was about Aluminium, the Android-based unified desktop…

May 12, 2026 / Ben Bajarin

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May 5, 2026 / Carolina Milanesi

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May 5, 2026 / Ben Bajarin

From AI Usage to AI Earnings Power

Research Series Note: We are spending the next several reports on the AI monetization question from three angles. Today’s note focuses on what customer evidence is telling us about AI ROI. Thursday’s report will look at how we see the AI platform war evolving as value capture moves from models to workflows, data, and control points.…

April 30, 2026 / Max Weinbach

Apple Q2 FY2026 Earnings Analysis: Demand Strength Meets a New Supply Constraint

Apple delivered a record March quarter, with revenue of $111.2B, up 17% YoY, and diluted EPS of $2.01, up 22% YoY. The quarter was strong enough to beat consensus on both revenue and EPS, but the call’s center of gravity was not the beat. It was the shape of demand, the Mac supply bottleneck, and the increasing margin pressure…

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It has a very high radix, so it can connect more GPUs per switch
That means fewer hops, which lowers latency and improves GPU-to-GPU bandwidth
It can also reduce system cost because fewer switches are needed
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At MWC, the conversation around AI is shifting from what it can do to how personal it can become.

In this episode of Bit by Bit: Leadership Conversations, @mweinbach sits down with Chris Patrick, SVP & GM of Mobile Handsets at @Qualcomm, to unpack the biggest trends shaping

At MWC, the conversation around AI is shifting from what it can do to how personal it can become.

In this episode of Bit by Bit: Leadership Conversations, @mweinbach sits down with Chris Patrick, SVP & GM of Mobile Handsets at @Qualcomm, to unpack the biggest trends shaping

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