Apple’s new commercial, which aired yesterday, sent a message that I feel is the defining theme which sets the iPad apart from the competition. Here is the commercial in case you haven’t seen it. Beyond the video Apple, has dedicated the landing page of their iPad website to this theme. The tagline “what will your … Continue reading The iPad Advantage
There is significantly more hype than substance around the smart watch category. While I completely agree there is a market for these products, I am still unconvinced the size of the market / opportunity is as large as others do. Smart watches appeal to me entirely. I am an early adopter and a techie so … Continue reading Why I am Skeptical About Smart Watches
Android is turning up in the strangest places. The Google mobile operating system, alresady the numerically dominant platform for smartphones and tablets worldwide, is making a move to desktops and laptops. It’s not clear that this is something Google envisioned or much desires. Google has had a fair amount of success with PC-like Chromebooks using … Continue reading CES: Android’s Big Business Bid
Paul Thurrott — a long-time Microsoft booster — has written a devastating analysis of Windows for WindowsITPro. After reviewing Windows’ recent history, he concludes: Windows is in trouble because people simply don’t care about it anymore. It’s ambivalence. [pullquote](T)he opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn. ~ Leo … Continue reading Microsoft Windows’ Biggest Problem
One of the most common complaints heard around the Consumer Electronics Show these days is that the pace of innovation seems to be slowing, particularly in the world of hardware. For years, we seem to have been treated with amazing new products or capabilities on a frequent basis and somehow got tricked into believing that … Continue reading The Innovation Asymptote
Note: This article was updated to correct the omission of Google. There’s no more tedious subject on the internet than an endless discussion of which companies are or are not innovative. If you doubt it, pick a random Tech.pinions comment thread; if the thread is of any length the subject is sure to come up. … Continue reading Eight Innovators That Shook the World
By all accounts there are about 2.8 billion people on the planet that use technology and in various ways are connected to the Internet. One third connect via PCs while the other two thirds use smartphones, tablets and other connected devices that have sprung from the Post PC Era. What is quite interesting is that … Continue reading The Next Big Challenge for the PC industry
Some Tech critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They see it done, they see how it should be done, but they can’t do it themselves or derive any pleasure from it, so they conclude that it’s a waste of time and effort. ((Inspired by: “Critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They’re there every … Continue reading Some Tech Critics Are Like Eunuchs In A Harem
The next year promises to bring some critical new changes to the world of devices, the software and services that run on those devices, and the usage of those devices in both commercial and consumer environments. In this year-end column, I predict what I believe will be the top 5 changes impacting the tech market … Continue reading Top 5 2014 Predictions
I have written much about “wearables” — wearable computing devices such as the Nike FuelBand, Fitbit Force and Google Glass. Wearables are set to invade consumer markets, healthcare, logistics and other industries, delivering a combination of personalized data, real-time notifications, and analysis of various human outputs, all stylishly wrapped inside the explicit promise of empowerment, … Continue reading Apple To Dominate The Wearable Devices Market
I’ve been trying to figure out a better way to articulate what is happening in the multi-screen era we have shifted to. I say shifting because there are many markets where one screen still dominates most consumers connected experiences. What is fascinating about those markets is that it is a mobile device which is the … Continue reading The Decentralization of the PC
Sigh. Time to fess up and see how badly I did in last year’s predictions. You can find them all here. Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. ~ Winston Churchill Prediction #1: … Continue reading Grading My Predictions For 2013
Yesterday Apple announced that the iPhone will finally come to China Mobile on January 17th. Pre-orders will start on December 25th. The timing of the iPhones availability will coincide with the Chinese New Year. This time of year is a popular time for Chinese consumers to give gifts that reflect good fortune and coming prosperity … Continue reading The iPhone and China Mobile. Impact and Expectations
During this holiday week, we wanted to re-showcase some of the most read columns of 2013. Whether you read them before or are seeing them for the first time, enjoy some of the most read columns of our site from the past year. This is the first of three articles looking at how we measure … Continue reading Most Read Columns of 2013: Android’s Market Share is Literally a Joke
Now that we’re fully in the throes and craziness of the holiday shopping season—just seven shopping days left until Christmas!—it seems appropriate to further investigate how the process really works, especially when it comes to electronics purchases. In fact, I’ve always been curious to not only know what items are hot sellers each year, but … Continue reading Holiday Shoppers Gifting Themselves
My name is Brian and I use Windows Phone. Confession: I want Windows Phone to succeed. I want it to succeed because I believe users will benefit from Microsoft innovation and renewed market competition. I want Windows Phone to succeed because as Android increasingly takes over the computing world I am increasingly fearful of the … Continue reading Where I Save Windows Phone
For the last 27 years I have written an annual industry prediction column where I try to forecast what I see happening in the PC and CE markets in the New Year. To be fair, I spend thousands of hours each year researching these industries and their products and get to see inside the labs … Continue reading Tech Predictions for 2014
When Jeff Hawkins was designing the original Palm Pilot, he had a simple rule for his team. If a feature was generating error messages, it either got fixed fast or it was removed. The Palm user experience was designed to be error free. ((Here’s a note Hawkins wrote explaining his design philosophy in response to … Continue reading Hits, No Errors: The Secret of Mobile Success
We track, analyze and oftentimes promote technology because of its overarching, mostly positive impact on our own lives and throughout the world. It’s many disparate parts, incorporating intellectual property and global manufacturing, hardware and software, content and creativity, when brought together at exactly the right time, in exactly the right way can be both uplifting … Continue reading 2013 Winners And Losers In Tech
Now that it has been proven in the courts that Samsung stole key intellectual and patented properties from Apple’s iPhone, I’ve been wondering if this move by them was actually calculated. Go back to the 2007-2008 time frame and we can see from this period that Apple pretty much over night reinvented the smartphone. More … Continue reading Did Samsung use Apple as an R&D Center?
1) We all know that sales of smartphones and tablets are are growing fast, however… 2) Those sales are growing even faster than we may realize, and… 3) The implications of this new wave of computing devices is going to be enormous; is going to impact us sooner than we anticipate, and… 4) We have … Continue reading The Mobile Wave
There are a number of things worth pointing out about the current state of smartphones. The first is that from a hardware standpoint vendors are staying relatively flat with a few seeing slight growth. Here is an updated chart showing IDC’s estimates for smartphone vendor share up to Q3’13. As you can see not a … Continue reading Tech.pinions Industry Insider Preview
Recently, I’ve been reading a lot of upbeat reports regarding Microsoft’s share of the smart phone market. This has been accompanied by claims that Microsoft has finally gotten developers to adopt their Windows Phone 8 platform. Microsoft’s Windows Phone boss, Joe Belfiore, claims that Microsoft will have completely eliminated its app gap with rival platforms … Continue reading It’s Bottoms Up For The Windows Phone
As a technology industry analyst, I spend a lot of time on airplanes both domestically and internationally—demonstrated by my freshly minted United Airlines Premiere Million Miler Card. On the majority of those flights, I make a point to walk up and down the aisles of the plane, glancing at what types of devices people are … Continue reading Aisle Check
Tablets represent one of the greatest opportunities to expand and enhance computing. However, it is a very mis-understood product. I want to share some statistics about tablets and then add some key points on the market as it stands today as well as a projected outlook for Q4 and beyond. 85% of tablets sales have … Continue reading The State of Tablets in 2013
