Post Tagged with: "iphone"

Verizon, LTE, and the iPhone’s Future
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Verizon, LTE, and the iPhone’s Future

At PCmag.com, Sascha Segan argues that Verizon Wireless may be pushing customers toward Android phones rather than the iPhone because it so badly needs to move customers from its overburdened 3G data network to its new and lightly used LTE network. This explains why Verizon is pushing Apple very hard to include LTE in the [...]

Published by on May 4, 2012 1:28 pm
How Apple Won’t Become a Mobile Carrier
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How Apple Won’t Become a Mobile Carrier

At GigaOm, Whitey Bluestein writes that Apple’s next move is becoming a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), buying wholesale spectrum from operators such as Verizon wireless and AT&T and offering an Apple0branded service directly to customers. I’ll never say never, but this seems extremely unlikely. Bluestein errs in his description of the history of Apple’s carrier relationship. [...]

Published by on May 2, 2012 2:46 pm
The Case Against a 4-Inch iPhone
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The Case Against a 4-Inch iPhone

As a regular part of my job I evaluate many different devices. I don’t always publish this analysis publicly but nearly every new device passes through our “labs.” When it comes to smartphones, or pocket computers as I like to call them, I get to test and review and analyze all the new android devices, [...]

Published by on April 17, 2012 5:16 pm
Where in the App Store is Carmen Sandiego?
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Where in the App Store is Carmen Sandiego?

One of the goals we have in my household is to develop and maintain an inquisitive culture and the desire to learn. Being immersed in the technology industry as I am, I naturally add technology as a part of that process. One of my favorite examples of how we have done this was with an [...]

Published by on April 11, 2012 9:57 am
Why Siri Won’t Go Beyond the iPhone–For Now
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Why Siri Won’t Go Beyond the iPhone–For Now

Since Apple launched the Siri app on the iPhone 4S last fall, there has been a widespread assumption that Siri’s voice-driven semantic search might soon find its way to other Apple products. At the top of everyone’s list was the still notional Apple television, bolstered by the belief that Steve Jobs’s deathbed claim to have [...]

Published by on April 11, 2012 4:49 am
Software Updates: Another Reason iPhone Keeps Winning
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Software Updates: Another Reason iPhone Keeps Winning

When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007 with AT&T as its exclusive partner, it made two revolutionary changes in how mobile phones were sold and managed. First, it was to be sold without a carrier subsidy. Second Apple would control both the initial software load and all updates. The first change didn’t last long. Faced [...]

Published by on March 25, 2012 5:41 am
Did Engineering Blind RIM to iPhone’s Assault?
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Did Engineering Blind RIM to iPhone’s Assault?

Research In Motion board member Roger Martin offered the Globe and Mail a passionate, though rather odd, defense of of RIM’s actions in the long decline that led up to the departure of co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsille. In the course of defending for ignoring advice he described “go bankrupt and fire our founders [...]

Published by on February 13, 2012 3:00 pm
Do Apple Competitors Make Bad Products?
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Do Apple Competitors Make Bad Products?

I often engage in discussions with the financial community on matters related to tech for their portfolio management. One of the things I was asked in a recent conversation intrigued me. The question was around why Apple seems to be dominating their competition with such a limited product portfolio mix. Tim Cook continues to emphasize [...]

Published by on February 9, 2012 6:40 am
Apple’s Quiet, Brutal War on Wireless Carriers
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Apple’s Quiet, Brutal War on Wireless Carriers

Steve Jobs made no secret of his disdain for wireless carriers. In 2005, when Apple was still denying any interest in getting into the phone business,  Jobs sneered at the four major U.S. carriers as the “four orifices” through which the wireless business passed. With the launch of the original iPhone, Apple made a concerted, [...]

Published by on February 8, 2012 7:56 am
The Day A Smart Phone Changed an Industry
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The Day A Smart Phone Changed an Industry

Five years ago today Apple introduced the iPhone. On this day five years ago, Apple opened our eyes to the reality that the devices we considered “smart” were not really smart at all. They re-invented the smart phone and made the industry re-evaluate what we knew a smart phone to be, changing the landscape entirely. [...]

Published by on January 9, 2012 7:29 am
What Next for T-Mobile?
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What Next for T-Mobile?

AT&T’s proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA has been unraveling ever since the U.S. Justice Dept. sued to block the deal  and was effectively doomed when the Federal Communications Commission said last month that it also was opposed. So it was  a bit of an anticlimax today when AT&T officially called the deal off. [...]

Published by on December 19, 2011 2:47 pm
The iPhone May Foreshadow The Future of Personal Computing
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The iPhone May Foreshadow The Future of Personal Computing

In 1989, I wrote a piece in one of my internationally syndicated columns about a mobile computing concept that was very modular in nature. Back then, portable computers were pretty bulky and heavy and having to lug them with me around the world was a pain. That led me to think about what future portable [...]

Published by on December 19, 2011 4:39 am
BlackBerry Mobile Fusion May Be RIM’s Future
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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 that promises to bring BlackBerry-like security and manageability to competing hardware. This may be an obvious move [...]

Published by on November 29, 2011 12:20 pm
The Pandora Box of Mobile – The Sky’s the Limit
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The Pandora Box of Mobile – The Sky’s the Limit

If you were at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco last week, you probably heard Pandora Founder Tim Westergren share that SEVENTY PERCENT of their usage is through mobile venues. Yes. 70%. And having created a super-successful digital space for themselves, Pandora doesn’t see Spotify, iTunes, or any other competition eating their lunch any time soon.

Published by on October 28, 2011 8:49 am
Applesauce
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Applesauce

  The Wall Street Journal: “More fizzle than pop.” The Los Angeles Times: “An evolution, not a revolution.” The Washington Post: “It wasn’t exactly blowing my mind.” FoxNews.com: “Lunch-bag letdown.” Business Insider: “A huge disappointment, or just a regular sized disappointment?” Analyst Roger Kay: “Underwhelming.”   People, please. There’s nothing wrong with evolution. Without evolution, [...]

Published by on October 6, 2011 9:40 am
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