Comments on: Apple iOS 8 – No silver bullet https://www.radiofreemobile.com/apple-ios-8-no-silver-bullet/ To entertain as well as inform Fri, 18 Apr 2025 06:25:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.26 By: Apple and Nike | stratechery by Ben Thompson https://www.radiofreemobile.com/apple-ios-8-no-silver-bullet/#comment-689 Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:21:57 +0000 http://www.radiofreemobile.com/?p=1650#comment-689 […] and Nike have markedly similar business models: as various pundit never tire of telling us, Apple is selling a commodity and is doomed to inevitable margin pressure and/or massive loss in share in the face of good-enough […]

]]> By: Tim Nash https://www.radiofreemobile.com/apple-ios-8-no-silver-bullet/#comment-688 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:52:33 +0000 http://www.radiofreemobile.com/?p=1650#comment-688 We will know more about what will/ won’t make the cut for iOS 8 with WWDC in June.

Healthbook, IMO, will probably be released to developers at WWDC but will only be released to consumers with an automatic sensor system.

Maps are no longer a differentiator. If you want to use Google Maps (or an app other than Apple Maps) on iOS you can. As the default, Apple Maps will be used more than any other and now that Apple is giving feedback on fixes of reported errors, I expect it to improve. I believe that Google’s biggest strategic error in mobile was the failure to improve Maps on iOS as fast as Maps on Android and maintain its iOS default status. Now Google has lost access to information very useful to advertisers.

Given the poor holiday quarter sales of the Galaxy S4 and the lacklustre reviews of the S5, I suspect the iPhone 6 will have little catching up to do. An interesting question is, how fast will Samsung feel the need to increase marketing expenditure at the expense of margins?

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