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Samsung Bixby – Radical refinement

The best refinement is to ditch Bixby Undeterred by its failure to launch Galaxy Home, a smart speaker with the execrable Bixby, Samsung is doubling down with a mini version...

Huawei – Nowhere to run pt. VIII.

Huawei’s ex-China smartphone share is heading to 0%.  Q4 19 will be a crucial test for Huawei as its new flagship (Mate 30) will not be a Google ecosystem device...

Peloton IPO – Frantic pedaling.

No telling when frantic spending can stop.   Peloton is to fitness what Lyft and Uber are to taxis. All have reinvented an industry and have reached scale, but appear...

Lyft Q2 19 – Wheel reinvention.

Lyft and Uber are becoming taxi companies.   Lyft reported what was received as good Q2 19 results, but I really don’t see much progress as the company is currently...

Huawei – Nowhere to run pt. VII.

Mate 30 Pro won’t sell without Google. Commentators are getting excited about the leaked specifications of Huawei’s next big launch (Mate 30 Pro) but the only thing that matters is...

ByteDance vs. Baidu – AI bake-off.

A test of ByteDance’s AI. By moving into search, ByteDance is throwing down the gauntlet to Baidu where the contest will be decided by the quality of the algorithms that...

Microsoft & Open AI – Brute force.

Brute force only benefits Microsoft. Open AI is making a big bet on compute power being the answer to the limitations of AI in a move that I think will...

8K & 3D – The long hard road.

One runner left It has been clear for several years now that the only 3D visual entertainment system that is going to work in the home environment is one without...

Uber, Samsung & Huawei – Q2 19 update

Uber has lost its soul The news of layoffs at Uber comes at a difficult time for the company which is now hostage to the whims of the fickle stock...

Apple FQ3 19 – iPhone-o-holic

Still a one-product company. Apple reported good results as iPhone growth declines slowed and services continued to chug along nicely. However, I still think that ending its dependence on the...