Archive for February, 2012

Why Smart Phones Won’t Take Down The PS Vita
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Why Smart Phones Won’t Take Down The PS Vita

The question that was raised at the initial announcement of the PS Vita was whether or not a dedicated mobile gaming unit could survive in a world where casual mobile games on smart phones exist. The answer is of course it can and there are several key reasons why. To set the foundation I will [...]

Published by on February 29, 2012 2:00 pm
The iPad 3′s Impact on the Industry
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The iPad 3′s Impact on the Industry

Apple finally made it official yesterday: The third-generation iPad will be unveiled at an event in San Francisco on  March 7. (Score one for The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple, who departed from the conventional wisdom and predicted an announcement on Wednesday, not the traditional Tuesday.) I’m not going to indulge in guessing about the details of [...]

Published by on February 29, 2012 5:38 am
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OS Licensing and Firewalls: That’s Not the Point

Michael Mace, who knows whereof he speaks from the days when Palm was licensing its OS, describes the challenges facing Google/Motorola in this Mobile Opportunity post.

Published by on February 28, 2012 1:55 pm
MWC 2012: Clear Android Differentiation and Other Trends
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MWC 2012: Clear Android Differentiation and Other Trends

I suspect that each MWC will be better than the last. This show, I believe, is quickly becoming the leading industry conference for mobile smart device technologies. Therefore, Mobile World Congress will be one of the shows were we can expect to dig into the trends of our mobile computing tomorrow. On that point, this [...]

Published by on February 27, 2012 7:28 am
Why Google Must Commit To Hardware
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Why Google Must Commit To Hardware

With the Nexus One and their recent purchase of Motorola, Google has more then signaled that they will soon be in the hardware business in a big way. And the recent rumors that they are building a 120,000 square foot consumer experience testing center on their campus suggest that they will test their own hardware [...]

Published by on February 27, 2012 6:33 am
NVIDIA’S Tegra 3 Leading the Way for Smartphone Modularity
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NVIDIA’S Tegra 3 Leading the Way for Smartphone Modularity

I have been an advocate of modularity before it became popular to do so. The theory seems straight-forward to me, in that if the capabilities of a smartphone were outpacing the usage model drivers of a rich client PC, then consumers someday could use their own smartphone as a PC.  Large displays, keyboards and mice [...]

Published by on February 27, 2012 4:00 am
The Logistic Principle, Not the Law of Large Numbers, Will Slow Apple’s Growth
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The Logistic Principle, Not the Law of Large Numbers, Will Slow Apple’s Growth

I cringe whenever I see a reference to the “law of large numbers,” knowing that it is almost certain to be incorrect. Blogger Dr. Drang has already done an  excellent takedown of the New York Times‘ James B. Stewart for a silly column in which he warned that Apple may be “running up against the law of [...]

Published by on February 25, 2012 2:32 pm
PlayBook 2.0: Is This the Best RIM Can Do?
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PlayBook 2.0: Is This the Best RIM Can Do?

UPDATE: On about the 10th try, I finally got both the personal hosted and corporate Exchange accounts working. I have no idea why the setup failed repeatedly and an identically setup eventually worked. I’m hoping for some explanation from RIM. —– If any evidence is still needed that one-time leader Research In Motion has become [...]

Published by on February 24, 2012 5:50 am
You Can Never Have Enough Tablets
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You Can Never Have Enough Tablets

One of the things my firm focuses on is spotting trends within the technology industry. As a part of our constant search for trends we employ a concept we call “live the future now.” What this means, is that we as trend analysts, ourselves being early adopters, attempt to look for and implement things into [...]

Published by on February 23, 2012 6:01 am
OnLive Desktop Launches Super-fast Browsing for the iPad
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OnLive Desktop Launches Super-fast Browsing for the iPad

One of the most interesting announcements at CES in January, OnLive Desktop, largely got lost in the noise of the annual gadget-fest in the desert. But this brainchild of online games wizard Steve Perlman is moving forward with an enhancement that brings superfast, full desktop browsing to the iPad. OnLive desktop brings a Windows 7 [...]

Published by on February 22, 2012 3:35 pm
Microsoft Office: Way Too Early for Obituaries
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Microsoft Office: Way Too Early for Obituaries

  In recent days, it has become popular to herald the impending death of Microsoft Office and the doom of Microsoft itself as its cash cow heads for the slaughterhouse. In a series of tweets, Duke business professor Vivek Wadhwa argued that Microsoft has become irrelevant, largely because tablets are the future and Office doesn’t [...]

Published by on February 22, 2012 9:55 am
The Case for Intel’s Future Smartphone Success
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The Case for Intel’s Future Smartphone Success

In my many weekly conversations with industry insiders we discuss Intel’s chances in mobility markets, specifically smartphones. Few people are betting against Qualcomm and for very good reason in that they are entrenched at handset vendors and their 2012 roadmap, at least on paper, looks solid. What few are discussing is how Intel will pick [...]

Published by on February 21, 2012 7:22 am
The New Microsoft and Apple OS Wars–Game On
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The New Microsoft and Apple OS Wars–Game On

After years of lagging behind Apple in terms of innovating around their user interfaces on both their smartphones and Windows, Microsoft finally took a big step towards competing with Apple head on last year with the introduction of their new Metro UI. Introduced first on Windows Phone 7, this new Touch UI, which uses a [...]

Published by on February 20, 2012 6:37 am
Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper Is Not a Slippery Slope
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Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper Is Not a Slippery Slope

Apple’s announcement of Gatekeeper, an anti-malware component of the new version of OS X, has set off the predictable horrified reactions among tech bloggers. Many are warning that this is a step in Apple’s plot to turn the Mac into an iPhone-like walled garden. But the reactions seem to be made of up equal parts misinformation and [...]

Published by on February 17, 2012 4:55 am
Don’t Miss OS X Mountain Lion’s Potential in China
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Don’t Miss OS X Mountain Lion’s Potential in China

Many in the media who got an early preview of Apple’s new Mac OS Mountain Lion are notably excited about a range of features. I point out a few of them in my article sharing my experience with the developer preview. Given that much of the mainstream media, or at least the sites that get [...]

Published by on February 16, 2012 8:30 am
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