Archive for July, 2011
Make Competitive Smart Phones or Get Out of the Market
We all know the world is moving from feature phones to smart phones. This is happening in some regions like the US and Europe faster but it is happening at a global level.
The latest …
Apple and its Non-Acquisitions
Over at Technologizer, Harry McCracken has an excellent rundown on the long history of rumored acquisitions by Apple that never came to pass. Some of these hypothetical deals made at least superficial sense, most didn’t.
Here’s one test to apply to …
Android Is at A Critical Junction
I believe that the next six month’s will be the defining point in the future for Google’s Android platform. Whether this future is bright or gloomy will depend on the next six month’s.
It seems right now like …
How Amazon Could Own the Android Tablet Market
One of the first marketing classes I had in college discussed the concept of razors and razor blades. Sell the razors cheap and then sell men blades over and over. The profit would be in the blades, not the razors. …
Can a New Approach to Wireless Beat Shannon’s Law?
For the past 60 years, electrical engineers have understood the hard limits that physics imposes on the data capacity of any channel. The law, formulated by Claude Shannon of Bell Telephone Labs, says that the data capacity, in bits per …
Why It Matters that Apple is the Number 1 Smart Phone Manufacturer
Data came out this morning from Nielsen providing insight to the current smart phone operating system market share in the US. There are several observations about this report that I want to make.
First off, although this is …
Do Students Hate Textbooks More than They Like Sex?
It’s no secret that students hate both buying bloated, overpriced textbooks and lugging those bricks around in their backpacks. But we didn’t know how much.
A new survey sponsored by Kno, Inc.–which, not coincidentally, is in the business of e-textbook software–found …
The Post PC Era Will Happen in Two Stages
In much of my work providing industry analysis to many companies in the technology industry, I come across the question of what the post PC-era actually means quite often. As the technology industry shifts from one computing platform (the …
Tablet Price Promotions to Boost Demand
Staples is the latest retailer in the tablet market to offer a price promotion on tablets. The company is offering a coupon for $100 off tablet purchases (excluding the HP TouchPad) through July 30.
The coupon is the latest price move …
Americans Elect’s Online Nomination Is a Recipe for Trouble
Americans Elect, a group that promises a new way of nominating a candidate for President in 2012, lept into prominence in recent days with a ringing endorsement from New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. I don’t propose to debate the merits …
Mac OS X Lion and the Future of Computing
By now, you’ve probably all heard or read about Apple’s new desktop operating system, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, or just “Lion” for short. While I believe it is a really good operating system today, what I am most interested …
My 5 Favorite New Features in OSX Lion
After spending some time working with Apple’s new operating system OSX Lion, I’ve landed on my top five favorite new features. Now granted, everyone uses computers differently. So for me and my computing habits these are the …
How the App Store Money Flows
Rosen Sharma is a guest contributor to Tech.pinions and the President and CEO of BlueStacks.
A good friend of mine recently remarked, “Apple App Store and Android App Store are completely different business models”. I casually asked, …
PlayBook Wins Government Security Certification
Under the right circumstances, a bug really can become a feature.
Research In Motion announced today that its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet has been certified under Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2, meaning it is approved for nonclassified communications by U.s. government …
A Librarian Looks at the JSTOR Download Case
A Tweet by Nilay Patel (@reckless) of Verge called my attention to an intelligent post giving a librarian’s perspective on the charges against Demand Progress’ Aaron Swartz. Swartz faces federal felony charges for allegedly using unauthorized access to the …
Why Apple Can’t Chase the Low End
In a post here earlier today, Ban Bajarin dismissed the frequent criticism of Apple for failing to serve the low end of the computer market. Ben focused on consumers’ willingness to perceive, and pay for, value in Apple’s relatively expensive …
Social Media Wars – How Wide Do We Open the Kimono? Google+, Facebook, Etc.
By now, you may have heard the name Michael Lee Johnson. He’s a young web developer who recently tried to promote his presence on Google+ by taking out a Facebook Ad. What’s wrong with that? According to Facebook’s terms of …
What is the future of the PC Industry?
As I perused the recent PC shipment numbers from last quarter and saw that they were rather anemic and with relatively slow growth forecast in the future, it became even more evident to me that we are at a major …
Did Android Tablet’s Gain on The iPad or Did The Market Grow?
Yesterday Strategy Analytics released some numbers showing the latest in the overall tablet shipments which included iPad and Android tablets. In that report Strategy Analytics reported”
Apple sold 9.3 million iPads in the second quarter of this year, …
Apple Doesn’t Want To Sell Corollas
On Wednesday Apple announced that they were dropping the Macbook from their PC lineup and making the MacBook Air the new entry level Mac. To most this move made sense and personally I feel that now entry level Mac …
Three Numbers from Apple’s Earnings That Should Scare Competitors
By now you have probably heard that Apple had the best quarter of their existence in the previous earnings period. Ben has given the basic details in his post but I wanted to share with you three other numbers that …
Demand Progress’ Aaron Swartz and the Rush to Judgment
When people talk about the internet encouraging a rush to judgment, they are usually referring to tendency to assume the guilt of anyone charged with a crime, say a Casey Anthony or Dominique Strauss-Kahn, before all the facts are known, …
Why Apple’s Earnings Reports Matter
Today Apple released their earnings report for the third quarter of 2011. As was expected there was much anticipation regarding the earnings, not only from Wall St but also from media outlets. Apple did not disappoint …
Chromebooks: What Netbooks Should Have Been All Along
When netbooks were first launched in late 2008, they were billed as clamshell devices meant to access the internet. About a decade earlier, these devices were also referred to as internet appliances. These netbooks were much less expensive than notebooks …
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Tech + Media – The Honeymoon Between GoogleTV and Logitech Ends, but the Marriage Continues
The marriage of tech and media is definitely a rocky one at times, and Web TV is no exception. Despite all promises, like all relationships things are always evolving between tech and media – and sometimes they work, and sometimes …