Archive for the ‘Featured Tech.pinions’ Category
Android v. iOS Part 4: Developers
RECAP
We’ve learned that Android dominates market share, but that it doesn’t seem to matter much. iOS has most of the profit share. And it turns out that developer share, not market share, is what makes a platform strong.
DEVELOPERS DEVELOP FOR …
Pinch-to-Zoom and Rounded Rectangles: What the Jury Didn’t Say [Updated]
As the Apple v. Samsung trial neared completion last week, I worried about how a jury of nine ordinary folks were going to make sense of hours of highly technical testimony, more than a hundred pages of jury instructions, and …
Android v. iOS Part 3: Network Effect
RECAP
We’ve looked at Android and iOS market share and profit share. Android is winning in market share and iOS is winning in profit share. In any other industry, the analysis would probably be over at this point. Profit is literally …
Patents: Who Has a Portfolio With Clout
One thing that put Samsung at a serious disadvantage in its patent fight with Apple was the weakness of its own portfolio of relevant patents. Conflicts between companies with roughly comparable portfolios almost always end in a cross-licensing agreement. A …
Android v. iOS Part 1: Market Share
INTRODUCTION
This is the first article in a multi-part look at the Android and iOS operating Systems. An operating system (OS) is the software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs. Applications (or Apps) require …
Of Apple, Samsung, and Obviousness (Updated)
Calimani’s patent drawings (Galla Coffee)
In 1929, an Italian named Attillo Calimani received a patent for a French press coffee maker. The French press is an extremely simple design: a glass beaker, a metal mesh filter attached to a push …
The Apple Verdict and the Challenge of Innovation
I spent some time on the weekend digesting the results and implications of the verdict between the Apple and Samsung patent trial. I watched my Twitter stream flow continuously with many remarking on the negatives of the verdict and …
What Does Microsoft Have Against Email?
Email in Windows 8 is a catastrophe.
I know the cool kids think email is last decade’s technology, but the fact is that it remains a vitally important communications tool for both businesses and consumers. But it gets no respect from …
A 7-inch iPad Presents Challenges to Apple’s Competition
A 7-inch iPad will put Apple in some very unfamiliar territory in the tablet market — it’s an area currently dominated by Android-based devices. However, Apple’s entry into that segment will also present some seemingly insurmountable challenges to those same …
The Twitter Kerfluffle: You Gets No Bread With One Meatball
The world of Twitter has been a-twitter for the last few days over changes the microblogging service is making in the third-party access to Twitter APIs. In general, the rules restrict or outright block the access of many third parties. …
Why We Hate Carriers (AT&T Edition)
Watching folks try to untangle themselves from messes of their own making is often painful. No, I’m not talking about Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin, but AT&T and the trouble it has made for itself by restricting the use of …
Tech Journalists Need To Learn Something About Business
A week ago, Engadget published a thinly sourced report that Microsoft would sell its new Surface tablet for an improbable $199. Despite a lack of any further confirmation, the report was endlessly repeated, commented upon, and used as the basis for …
Observations and Opinions About Apple Retail
Credit: Apple
As Tim pointed out earlier in the week, Apple competitors have many things to be worried about. Strategically, however, Apple’s retail presence would be one of the biggest things keeping me up at night if I …
How Significant is the Synaptics ThinTouch, ForcePad and ClearPad Technology?
As I have cited previously, human computer interface (HCI) changes have defined the winners of the last decade in the phone, tablet, and premium PC and game console markets. I believe this will continue into the future. As important …
What Really Scares Apple’s Competitors
I was recently talking with some of Apple’s competitors and they gave me some interesting feedback on how they feel about Apple. The first thing they told me is that they really respect Apple and find them to be very …
Who's Reading What
- The Definitive Answer Guide to Which Smartphone You Should Buy
- Google’s Android And The Path Not Taken
- When Reporting Sales Numbers, Honesty is the Best Policy
- Microsoft is Missing Apps the Same Way They Missed the Early Internet
- Samsung’s Real Threat to Apple
- Only Apple Can Play Apple
- Can Microsoft Compete in a Post-PC World?
- Bloomberg, the Internet, and Trust
- Our New Look
- A Significant Product Differentiation
- Can Microsoft Compete in a Post-PC World?
- The Definitive Answer Guide to Which Smartphone You Should Buy
- Our New Look
- Big-Box Retailers are Not Helping PC Sales
- Samsung’s Real Threat to Apple
- Apple In Perspective
- The Soft Improvements in new PCs Could be their Biggest Draw
- The PC Industry of the Past Is Not the PC Industry of the Future
- Apple Is Playing Chicken With The Mobile Carriers
- Windows vs. Mac In Schools: All the Wrong Reasons