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China automotive – 2 voice race.

China likely to be first with a fully digitised vehicle.  Alibaba’s partnership with foreign car makers to offer its voice assistant in the vehicles transforms the Chinese market into a...

Epic Games – Party time.

Epic embarks on a trip around the Digital Life Pie.   Epic Games is not resting upon the massive success and cash generation from Fortnite but is instead putting this...

Music streaming – Fall of the radio star.

Streaming goes after broadcast radio. Spotify has launched a radio-like product that is a niche add-on for now but if successful will challenge the existence of broadcast radio in the...

Autonomous Autos – Shaken not stirred.

The shake-out begins. I suspect that Aurora will regret rebuffing VW’s attempts to acquire it as the loss of this key partner is likely to make life very difficult for...

Samsung & Huawei – Nasty origami pt. III.

Samsung plays the waiting game. Samsung is still clearly struggling with the Galaxy Fold but I suspect that behind the scenes, it is waiting to see how the situation for...

Google & Huawei – Fragmentation game.

Google’s defence of Huawei is about Samsung. Google has come to Huawei’s defence using the old fragmentation argument, but I think that its real aim is to prevent Samsung from...

Apple – Baby driver.

Drive.ai adds nothing to Apple’s proposition. Apple certainly needs to make an autonomous driving acquisition, but whether drive.ai is the right asset and the logic of pursuing autonomous driving at...

Apple iPad OS – Pilgrim’s progress.

Apple is still pretty far from the holy land with iPad OS. Apple’s new iPad Pro OS goes some way towards improving the ability of the iPad to perform like...

Apple WWDC 19 – Nice but dull.

Apple inches its ecosystem forward. Beneath the pomp and the adoring crowd was a series of updates to its core platforms which inched the iOS ecosystem forward but, in reality,...

Facebook – The long hard road

Signs of AI progress. More needed. Facebook’s ability to spot fake accounts is improving, but it is still making much longer than it should to detect these bad actors and...