Archive for November, 2011
Microsoft’s Future in Tablets: Forget Consumers, Go for the Enterprise
Only huge a company with massive cash flow can make a mistake of the magnitude of Microsoft’s error in missing the movement from PCs to smartphones and tablets and survive as a major player. Legacy cash flows allowed IBM to …
BlackBerry Mobile Fusion May Be RIM’s Future
The flood of iPhones, iPads, and Androids into corporate offices is destroying BlackBerry’s once dominant position in the enterprise. In a bold if-you-can-lick-them-join-them move, Research In Motion is striking back with BlackBerry Mobile fusion, a software and a back-office package …
A Scenario Where Smartphones Take Down the PC
If you’ve done any long term strategic planning you know there are few absolutes but, very many scenarios. Tech history shows that even disruptive innovations take time to rollout and many scenarios existed that could have gone both ways. BlockBuster …
Who Really Needs a PC Anyway?
James Kendrick at ZDNet wrote a post asking an interesting question: Who really needs a stinking tablet anyway? His post is well articulated but misses the bigger picture of what tablets are and more importantly what they represent. …
Tech Trends and Disruptors to watch in 2012
You may not know it yet, but when we end 2012, we will look back on it and realize that it was the most disruptive year we will have had in personal computing in over a decade. In the next …
Black Friday and The Philosophy of a “Deal”
Let me try to define a few terms first as I flesh out this idea of the philosophy of a deal.
- A deal is when an objectively better product is offered for a limited time at a lower than …
The Flaw in Samsung’s Anti-iPhone Commercial
I have to admit, the new Samsung commercial is one of the better commercials from a marketing standpoint for Android devices and Samsung in particular. If you haven’t seen it I suggest checking it out here.
What has …
Two Phones in One: An Enterprise BYOD Solution
I’m not usually terribly sympathetic to the problems of corporate IT departments. It seems that corporate employees, including senior executives, are no longer willing to accept whatever miserable handset the company designates as its official phone. At the same time, …
Facebook and the Future of Web Apps
There was a little company, that I found interesting, called Strobe who was building a platform to help developers build and monetize HTML 5 web apps. I spent some time with their founder Charles Jolley, whom while at …
Apple May Have Won The PC War… By Losing The Windows Battle
VIA TechCrunch – BY MG Siegler
The Real Reason Google Released an iOS Gmail App
Last week, Google re-released their much maligned iOS Gmail application. It includes a few features over and above the standard iOS email app, but nothing that is really exciting the wide swath of users if “number of stars” is any …
Apple Should Stay Away from the Wireless Carrier Business
Jean-Louis Gassée’s Monday Notes are some of the sharpest and most insightful commentary on the web. But I have to take issue with his suggestion that Apple should get into the wireless business by becoming a mobile virtual network operator …
My Experience with the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet
I’d like to start this topic off by making a point. The way most reviewers review technology products is helpful for those to whom technology is well understood and non-threatening. However, I would argue, that …
Why Kindle Fire Reviews Are All Over the Place
The Amazon Kindle Fire is having an extremely polarizing effect on reviewers. Most mainstream reviews, like this one from The Wall Street Journal‘s Walt Mossberg, have been favorable with some important reservations. But some, like The New York Times‘s David Pogue were …
Who's Reading What
- Google’s Android And The Path Not Taken
- Microsoft is Missing Apps the Same Way They Missed the Early Internet
- The Definitive Answer Guide to Which Smartphone You Should Buy
- Only Apple Can Play Apple
- The iPhone and the Death of the Mid-Tier Smartphone
- Can Microsoft Compete in a Post-PC World?
- A Significant Product Differentiation
- How is This Chart Helpful
- Samsung’s Real Threat to Apple
- Time to upgrade Your PC
- 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
- Apple Is Playing Chicken With The Mobile Carriers
- Windows vs. Mac In Schools: All the Wrong Reasons
- Time to upgrade Your PC
Gaming AMD’s 2012 Strategy
AMD intends to pursue “growth opportunities” in low-powered devices, emerging markets and Internet-based businesses.
There’s an awful lot of mis-guided analysis wafting about regarding AMD’s new strategic direction, which the company says it will make public in February. This piece is …