One of my favorite quotes about change is: “Life is a journey, and on a journey the scenery changes.” The technology industry is also on a journey and on that journey the scenery will change. Whether many industry insiders recognize it or not the scenery is changing and it’s happening quickly. The line is blurring … Continue reading The PC Landscape is About to Change – Here’s Why
Back in 1984, one of the major PC companies, who was spectacularly successful with their business PCs, decided that they could be just as successful if they created PCs for consumers. But they wanted them to be different from their business PCs since they knew a consumer model would have to be priced much less … Continue reading The Simple Reason for Apple’s Success
I just lost my last excuse for traveling with a laptop. I usually find myself traveling with my MacBook Air because some tasks, such as writing this post at the Consumer Electronics Show, is just a bit more than I can manage on the iPad. But OnLive Desktop is about to change that–and could bring … Continue reading OnLive Brings Superfast Windows to the iPad
Microsoft launched Kinect back in November 2010 in a move to change the man-to-machine interface between the consumer to their living room content. While incredibly risky, the gamble paid off in the fastest selling consumer device, ever. I saw the potential after analyzing the usage models and technology for a few months after Kinect launch … Continue reading Samsung & LG Validate Microsoft’s Living Room Interaction Model
CES hasn’t even started, but after sitting through various pre-show press conferences and meetings, one thing is clear: Apple is casting a very long shadow on this show. And many of the products I have seen have been various implementations of something Apple has already brought to market. This is especially true in two categories. … Continue reading Catching up with Apple – This Years CES Theme
I have an un-healthy fascination with semiconductors. I am not an engineer nor I do know much about quantum physics but I still love semiconductors. Perhaps because I started my career drawing chip diagrams at Cypress Semiconductor. I genuinely enjoy digging into architecture differences and exploring how different semiconductor companies look to innovate and tackle … Continue reading The ARM Wrestle Match
This is the third article in a three part series discussing key trends in TV. The first article looked at how new interface technologies are enabling new ways to control our TVs. The second article focused on the multi-screen TV experience. This article focuses on how interactive TV trends are driving the need for improvements … Continue reading Interactive TV Trends – How the TV Experience is Changing, Part III
Over the last few months I have heard and read many comments about the idea that Amazon is the new Apple. In fact, in a very good piece in Forbes, E.D. Cain asks if Amazon is the new Apple directly. He makes some good points to suggest that Amazon is very much following in Apple’s … Continue reading Why Amazon is Not the New Apple
Those who planned their tablet strategies based on the predictions of key analysts and the excitement at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the beginning of 2011 may want to be very wary of the wave of predictions for the 2012 tablet market after 2011 remained iPad dominant. Apple is now expected to sell around … Continue reading The Tablet Market in 2012: What it Means for Publishers
We thought we would recommend some new years resolutions for the tech industry at large for 2012. Some of these are company specific and some are general. From Patrick Moorhead Tablet OEMs: Invest what it takes to create and market something dramatically valuable, demonstrable, and most of all, differentiated. The answer to that lies with … Continue reading New Years Resolutions for the Tech Industry in 2012
I have nearly every gadget and gismo imaginable. Luckily for me, analysts get great gear to review as well. A friend at a party, who knows all to well about all the great tech gear I get to play with, asked me what my favorite was at the moment. I didn’t even hesitate and I … Continue reading My Favorite Piece of Tech Gear Right Now
It’s fun to make predictions. Luckily none of us are in the predictions business but it’s fun to analyze, speculate, and simply hope for interesting things to come prior to each new year. This year, rather than have each of our columnists write a number of predictions we decided to have each submit two. So … Continue reading The Tech.pinions Predictions For 2012
My firm, Creative Strategies, has been talking extensively about what we call the digital ecosystem for over 10 years now. As we have been analyzing the technology industry and the underlying fundamentals that make it work, we have been trying to think about this from the vantage point of ecosystems. We believe that products are … Continue reading Why It’s All About the Digital Ecosystem
A month after its launch, Amazon’s Kindle Fire continues to be an extraordinarily polarizing product. Lots of people like it and it appears to be flying off the shelves (though it would be nice if Amazon supplied some actual numbers to back up its glowing sales reports.) But a significant element of the tech world … Continue reading Kindle Fire: The Most Divisive Product of 2011
Apple iCloud launched two months ago to huge fanfare and punditry. It’s no surprise given the huge future opportunity with the cloud. Also, it was a big deal for Apple given their past online endeavors had been so unsuccessful that even Steve Jobs issued out one of the few apologies Apple had ever made. In … Continue reading Apple iCloud Shortcomings Provide a Competitive Opportunity
My colleague at Tech.pinions, Steve Wildstrom, wrote a great piece last Friday that chronicles Palm’s past and suggested that webOS is at the end of the road. While he may be right, a part of me wants to think that at least Web OS could live on even if Palm as we knew it has … Continue reading Why webOS Deserves Another Chance
I was delighted back in the spring of 2010 when Hewlett-Packard announced it was buying Palm. I’ve been a fan of Palm for 15 years, but throughout its history, the company has always been hamstrung by a lack of adequate financial resources. With mighty HP behind it, Palm could finally reach its destiny. I couldn’t … Continue reading Palm: The End of a Long and Troubled Road
Today HP made a fascinating decision. One that is disruptive, exciting, and could lead to valuable innovation. HP has decided to release webOS to the open source community. This decision could have significant impact on the mobile landscape and may end up being one of the most disruptive moves yet. A quote from the release: … Continue reading Analysis: HP Releases webOS to Open Source Community
I truly believe Microsoft is approaching a fork in the road, where some of the decisions made in the next 6-8 months will set the stage for their long-term success or failure. Microsoft is a software company primarily, and many of the decisions that need to be made relate to their philosophy and strategy as … Continue reading How Microsoft Can Embrace the Post-PC Era
In last week’s episode we awarded “Best of 2011” honors to a bushel of Apples: The Macbook Air (portable computer), the iPhone 4S (smartphone), and the iPad 2 (best tablet). Although it wasn’t a category, Apple as a company wins the “Best Tech Company of 2011” honors. Apple doesn’t just dominate major categories in consumer … Continue reading Part II: Best of Tech 2011 (Gizmos)
There has been a lot written about the possibility of Microsoft not supporting the Windows 8 Desktop environment on the ARM architecture. If true, this could impact Microsoft, ARM and ARM’s licensees and Texas Instruments, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm are in the best position to challenge the high end of the ARM stack and are publicly … Continue reading Windows 8 Desktop on ARM Decision Driven by Phones and Consoles
A couple of weeks ago, market research firm Canalys made a significant prediction that by the end of 2012, Apple would be the number 1 PC vendor in the world. To get to this number, they recognized the iPad as a personal computer and pointed out that if you include iPad’s, Apple would be the … Continue reading Why Apple Will be #1 in 2012
ZDnet reports that Microsoft has tentatively decided that Windows 8 running on ARM processors will only support new Metro-style applications, not programs written for older versions of Windows and Intel processors. In one sense, this is not surprising. Existing applications would have to be recompiled to run at all on ARM systems and would probably … Continue reading Windows and ARM: A Fork in the Road
There is re-invigorated conversation around Apple and its Apple TV efforts in light of Steve Jobs’s comments to Walter Isaacson that he has finally cracked the TV interface. And now again with recent Wall St Analysts voicing their conviction that 2012 will be the year of Apple TV. We all know Apple wants a play … Continue reading Apple Will Re-Invent Television
Harvard Law School Prof. Jonathan Zittrain does not like the iPhone. Or the iPad. Or much of anything about the modern app economy. In an article for MIT’s Technology Review, Zittrain takes up a theme he has been sounding for the past several years, bemoaning a loss of a golden age of software openness, when “anyone … Continue reading Zittrain vs. Apple: What About the User Experience?
