Radio Free Mobile is hanging up the microphone for the season and will return for CES in January. RFM wishes all of its readers compliments of the season and a happy new year.
Reply to this post Second blood goes to Google. Google has scored a badly needed win over Amazon as Amazon has said it will start selling Google’s Chromecast devices once again which is almost certainly a bid to get YouTube back on its devices. This is a sure sign that Amazon needs Google more than...
Reply to this post Early data indicates that there is no super cycle While it is too early to say for sure, the initial data suggests that the super cycle that the market is looking for to underpin the valuation of the shares is not occurring. Mixpanel is an analytics company that tracks user interactions...
Reply to this post FF looks certain to fail. It won’t be the last. The saga of Faraday Future may soon draw to a close, which combined with the blacklisting of its biggest investor (Jia Yueting) on China’s national debtors’ database, is a strong indication that this group will never produce a vehicle. Faraday Future...
Reply to this post Cable TV looks finished while OTA has another chance. The nominations of the Golden Globes have revealed further gains for the OTT players over the traditional content creators also signalling the coming demise of cable TV. The nominations for the 2018 Golden Globe awards have been published where the TV section...
Reply to this post Two lines of ducks are forming. With a new alliance between Spotify and Tencent and the acquisition of Shazam by Apple, the big players are getting their ducks in a row to dominate the global music industry. Spotify and Tencent Following on from Tencent’s failure to acquire the company (see here),...
Reply to this post Some space left for this proposition Windows on ARM is back for another crack at the PC market and while I can see a place for it, it is unlikely to cause Intel too much grief. Microsoft and Qualcomm have launched a series of laptops that are running Windows 10 on Qualcomm’s...
Reply to this post DeepMind AlphaZero is smarter with 1000x less effort. DeepMind has taken another step forward in the quest for machine intelligence with the demonstration of the rapid training of a single algorithm to play Chess, Go and Shogi. While this is without doubt another step forward, I do not consider that the...
Reply to this post Google has a chance to displace Amazon. I don’t think Google will go out of its way to patch things up with Amazon as having YouTube absent from Amazon devices could disincentivise users from going with Echo products giving Google Home a badly needed boost. Google and Amazon have been sparring...
RFM 2018 – Top 5 at CES.
Reply to this post RFM’s top 5 issues likely to prevail at CES and 2018. Artificial Intelligence I expect Artificial Intelligence to get top billing again this year as the both the hype and the flow of capital show no sign of abating. Consequently, 2018 is likely to be a year of more feverish investment...