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Lessons from the Failure of Flash: Greed Kills

By Michael Mace via Mobile Opportunity

Published by on November 11, 2011 5:02 am
Quad Core Smartphones: What it Will Take to Become Relevant

Quad Core Smartphones: What it Will Take to Become Relevant

There has been a lot of industry discussion on multi-core smartphones in the past year, and the dialog has increased with NVIDIA’s launch of Tegra 3, a quad core SOC targeted to phones and tablets. The big question lingering with all of these implementations particularly with phones is, what will end users do with all [...]

Published by on November 11, 2011 4:00 am
Thailand Floods and Their Impact For PC Shipments

Thailand Floods and Their Impact For PC Shipments

The monsoon rains and floods of Thailand has affected close to 1000 factories across central Thailand and is having a major impact on the hard drive industry. I spoke with my contacts in Taipei last night that told me that the fall out from this, both in human terms as well as business terms would [...]

Published by on November 11, 2011 3:58 am

Happy birthday: On the eve of Windows 8, Microsoft’s Tablet PC turns 10

VIA Tab Times – By David Needle

Published by on November 10, 2011 1:12 pm
In Praise of Tweakers: Why Gladwell Is Wrong About Jobs

In Praise of Tweakers: Why Gladwell Is Wrong About Jobs

If I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton to Robert Hooke, 1676 In a New Yorker essay on  the career of Steve Jobs,  Malcolm Gladwell dismisses the idea the Jobs was a visionary. Instead, Gladwell writes, drawing heavily on Walter Isaacson’s biography, “he was much more [...]

Published by on November 10, 2011 6:19 am
Apple Is Becoming the New IBM

Apple Is Becoming the New IBM

“No one ever got fired for buying an IBM.” That phrase was popular when IBM, in conjunction with Microsoft, was becoming the standard business workstation in the mid-to-late 80′s. Deciding to purchase products from the industry leader was the safe bet, the one with the least risk. This was the underlying psychology of corporate IT [...]

Published by on November 10, 2011 3:07 am
The Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet Will Not Slow the iPad

The Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet Will Not Slow the iPad

Philip Elmer-DeWitt reported on the Fortune blog about data released suggesting the potential impact of the Kindle Fire on iPad sales. The data originated from ChangeWave and points out several key findings from their survey of “early adopter types.” 5% of those surveyed said they had pre-ordered or were very likely to buy Amazon’s new [...]

Published by on November 9, 2011 9:54 pm
Hello, Tech.pinions

Hello, Tech.pinions

I am pleased to announce that, as one element of building a new high tech industry analyst firm, I will be joining Techpinions as a part of the columnist team and as partner. It is an honor to work with Tim Bajarin, Ben Bajarin, Stephen Wildstrom, Peter Lewis and many of the awesome contributors. What [...]

Published by on November 9, 2011 8:45 am
Marrying Android and Windows

Marrying Android and Windows

Earlier this year I discovered an interesting company by the name of Bluestacks who said they had a virtual engine that would allow a person to run Android apps on a Windows PC. When I say I discovered them, this is an understatement. They moved into the office next to mine so it was pretty [...]

Published by on November 9, 2011 6:48 am
Mobile Flash: Adios and Good Riddance

Mobile Flash: Adios and Good Riddance

UPDATE: Adobe has confirmed the end of mobile Flash development. Jason Perlow at ZDNet is reporting that as part of a restructuring announced yesterday, Adobe is ending development of its Flash plug-in for mobile browsers. If true, and the story seems well-sourced, this marks the end of one of the silliest tech controversies in recent [...]

Published by on November 9, 2011 5:16 am
A Digital Insider Scoffs at Townshend

A Digital Insider Scoffs at Townshend

As an industry insider – on way more than one level – it’s hard to take Pete Townshend’s comments as anything more than another great artist railing at the system.  Look, in the end, we all have to admit that the system is broken.  That’s one thing that Townshend got right in that interview.  After [...]

Published by on November 8, 2011 9:19 am
Nook Tablet vs. Kindle Fire: Specs or Ecosystem

Nook Tablet vs. Kindle Fire: Specs or Ecosystem

Do you care how fast the processor in your e-book reader is? Barnes & Noble seems to hope so. It’s announcement today was heavy on comparing its specs to Amazon’s Kindle Fire. There’s no doubt the Nook beats the Kindle hands down in speeds and feeds: more memory, much more storage, better display. But there’s [...]

Published by on November 7, 2011 12:58 pm
How Close Are We to Steve Jobs’s Apple TV Dream?

How Close Are We to Steve Jobs’s Apple TV Dream?

The latest edition of Jean-Louis Gassée’s always stimulating Monday Note takes a highly informative look at what Steve Jobs may have meant in this comment to biographer Walt Isaacson that he had “cracked” the TV user interface. A key, Gassée speculates, is the idea (which he credits to Daring Fireball’s John Gruber) of channels-as-apps. I remain [...]

Published by on November 7, 2011 4:00 am
What the Mac OS X Sandbox Means to Users

What the Mac OS X Sandbox Means to Users

There has been considerable unhappiness, even outrage, in the developer community since Apple announced that as of next March, all software sold through the Mac App Store would have to run in a sandbox, that is, its access to system resources would be restricted, the exact restrictions based on the type of program. “Why the Mac [...]

Published by on November 4, 2011 1:16 pm
Dear Industry: History Will Not Repeat Itself

Dear Industry: History Will Not Repeat Itself

I have noticed an interesting thread of conversation both with some industry folks as well as in the media. That thread is around the assumption that the technology industry will repeat itself and a dominant platform will emerge and command the lion’s share of the market. I understand why many people would assume that this [...]

Published by on November 4, 2011 6:41 am
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