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How Google Should Fix Android
It’s time for Google to step up and take charge of the Android platform it has created.
I know this sounds odd. By at least one standard, Android is a runaway success. It is by far the world’s most popular smartphone …
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 …
Motorola Droid Razr Maxx Commercial–Best Droid Marketing Yet
When I met with Motorola at CES and they showed me the Droid Maxx I suspected they were on to something. What is interesting to me as an analyst about this device is that it is not just …
Google Officially Owns Motorola–Now What?
US Regulatory agencies along with the European Union approved Google’s acquisition of Motorola today. This acquisition, although initially positioned for Motorola’s patents, could very well cause quite a bit of change in the mobile landscape.
I …
What Intel Must Demonstrate in Smartphones (and soon)
Intel made a big splash at CES 2012 with the announcement that Motorola and Lenovo committed to Intel’s Medfield smartphone solution. This came on the heels of a disappointing break-up between Intel and Nokia as well as a lack …
Why the PC Industry Cannot Ignore Smartphones
When HP abandoned their smartphone and tablet business and webOS last August, many in the industry were disappointed in the speed of the Palm acquisition and the quick dismantling of it. Some who consider themselves "business-savvy" said it was the …
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. …
H-P’s Apotheker: We Want to Split H-P Into Two Companies
H-P CEO Leo Apotheker has a very different set of talking points this week than he did last week in a hastily called teleconference after a trading halt which announced the halt to WebOS investments and the spinoff of the …
Google+Moto: “Like a Python That Swallowed a Minivan”
Michael Mace, who knows more about mobile computing than just about anyone around, is deeply skeptical about Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility. “Either Google’s worldview will dominate and ruin Motorola, or worse yet the Motorola worldview will infect Google,” he …
Updated: Motogoo: The Damage to Google’s Bottom Line
Update 8/16: The market seemed distinctly cooler to the Google-Motorola Mobility deal the day after, with shares falling 3.27% to 539. And Standard & Poor’s downgraded GOOG from “buy” to “sell” on concerns about the impact of the Motorola deal. …
Google: Set Top Box King?
Largely overlooked in the initial reaction to Google’s proposed $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility is the deal’s potential impact on the cable set top box business. When Motorola split the company in two, the decidedly un-mobile set top box …
Why Google had to buy Motorola
At the end of the year, when I made my predictions for the New Year, I stated that I believed Google would buy Motorola Mobile. And last week, Ben wrote here in Tech.Pinions about why he thought Google should buy …
Why Google Should Buy Motorola
Article Disclaimer: This is all theory and purely speculative. This is simply a thought exercise.
Motorola has been an interesting company to watch over the past 10 years. They have been a driving force in bringing the cellular industry into …
The Asus PadFone is a Glimpse of the Future
As a part of my work as an industry analyst I do a great deal of thinking about the future. Many of the projects we get pulled into and asked to add analysis on are related to the …
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