Reply to this post OEMs promote their own demise. While the automakers are falling over themselves to appear up to date and innovative at the Geneva Motor Show, very little thought appears to have been applied to considering the consequences of their actions. I see these consequences as potentially devastating for the long-term differentiation, growth...
Reply to this post HTC Vive loses out to Oculus. While penetration of VR units in the gaming community remains pathetically low, Oculus has edged out HTC potentially spelling the end of a once great smartphone company. The latest data from Steam indicates: First, penetration: this remains very low at 0.14% of all PCs surveyed....
Reply to this post Google booted from the nest. The tit for tat war between Amazon and Google (which I thought had been largely resolved (see here)), has been brought back to life with the almost certainty that Google’s smart home products will no longer be sold on Amazon. This has re-emerged as Amazon has...
Reply to this post Relevant items outside the usual MWC news flow. Google – Stairway to heaven. Google as taken a small step that may herald the end of Android and the arrival of a new OS that could end the endemic fragmentation that plagues Google devices. This is a development environment called Flutter that...
Reply to this post MWC retro mania continues (except 5G). Android dullness alleviated by a banana. HMD (Nokia) has once again laid bare how dull the world of smartphones is these days with its relaunch of the 8110, better known as the banana phone. It is a re-imagining of the original device which was hugely...
Reply to this post MWC goes back to its roots. MWC has stopped wanting to be CES and is instead reclaiming its identity as a show all about phones and the boxes that connect them to the world. Sunday saw the release of 4 phones from HMD (Nokia), 3 from ZTE, 2 from Samsung, tablets...
Reply to this post Angry birds fly the coop. Rovio’s dependence on Angry Birds has been thrown into sharp relief as the fading popularity of the franchise triggered a dreadful profit warning that caused the shares to halve in value in just one trading session. Q4 17 revenue / EBIT was EUR73.9m / EUR10.4m which...
Reply to this post Google continues to dodge the elephant. Google is having another go at cleaning up Android’s act in the enterprise, but while it continues to ignore the elephant in the room, it is unlikely to make any progress. Android’s position in the enterprise almost the exact opposite of what it has in...
Reply to this post A smart speaker makes no sense. Job postings indicate that Spotify is jumping into hardware and, while I think that a smart speaker makes no sense at all, there may be something in a device that makes dumb speakers work really well with Spotify. Spotify is recruiting operations and project managers...
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Android – P is for pointless
Reply to this post 5 years to do what takes Apple 90 days. Google has released the Android developer preview for Android P (version 9.0) with a series of new features that will take about 5 and half years to fully penetrate Google’s own ecosystem devices. By contrast, it takes Apple less than 90 days...