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Why Google is Creating Their Own Tablet

It is pretty well known now that Google is about to release a Google branded tablet. Sources tell us that it was designed by Asus and made by Quanta. Most expect it to be shown at Google I/O the last week of June and in the market sometime in July. At first glance, the fact … Continue reading Why Google is Creating Their Own Tablet

Why Google Should Fear Facebook

I have written quite a bit about my doubts of Facebook’s long term value. And amidst all the recent news about their IPO woes it seems like investors are skeptical as well. Last week I wrote an article highlighting my thoughts on why I am skeptical about Facebook’s long term value. Today I would like … Continue reading Why Google Should Fear Facebook

Apple’s iPad will be dominant until…

Watching the professional industry watchers speculate on how long Apple’s iPad will dominate its market segment is kind of funny. Will it be 2012, 2013, no it’s going to be 2015 and then they will fall, right? The funny part is that nobody knows for sure what’s going to happen, but the pronouncements of Apple’s … Continue reading Apple’s iPad will be dominant until…

The Challenge of Competing With Apple

One of the more interesting questions I get asked as an industry analyst, that has followed Apple since 1981, is why Apple is so successful? And another question I often get is, why Apple’s competitors can’t make any headway against them? These are honest questions and to those really not familiar with Apple, the companies … Continue reading The Challenge of Competing With Apple

RIM Needs to Stop Embarrassing Itself

I haven’t seen a company embarrass itself as much as RIM has in the last year or so. From failed products to sad attempts at marketing, it seems that RIM doesn’t know when it’s time to take a step back. There’s a lot to be said for the bravery of a fighter that repeatedly gets … Continue reading RIM Needs to Stop Embarrassing Itself

Mobile TV May Make A Comeback

I have been tracking the mobile TV space since the early 2000’s and mostly given up after the last push, using DVB-H failed. I tracked quite a bit of research around mobile TV in North America and we performed our own use case research as well. North America as a market for mobile TV is … Continue reading Mobile TV May Make A Comeback

HTC One X International: Trading in My iPhone 4S?

HTC announced the HTC One family in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress 2012. The HTC One X was one of the bigger standouts as it indicated the best in breed of Android phones available on the market. Some even said it would threaten the iPhone. Does it live up to the hype? I had the … Continue reading HTC One X International: Trading in My iPhone 4S?

Why Facebook Might Make A Smartphone

There have been a lot of rumors flying around these days that Facebook could be bringing out a smartphone of their own and that HTC is making it for them. Facebook has denied they would do a handset, but rumors and industry buzz around this continues to be strong and usually where there is smoke, … Continue reading Why Facebook Might Make A Smartphone

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 … Continue reading Verizon, LTE, and the iPhone’s Future

Tablets: Numbers and Observations

Both IDC and Display Search released updated numbers for the tablet segment. There are some interesting key take aways from both sets of numbers. IDC confirms Apple’s dominant position with regards to iPad share and points to slumping Android shipments for tablets which is no surprise. The Display Search data is a bit more comprehensive … Continue reading Tablets: Numbers and Observations

An Act of Folly: Smartphones in Five Years

Let’s take a quick trip in our time machine to survey the smartphone market in the spring of 2007, five years ago. The iPhone had been announced but not yet shipped, and many were skeptical about its success. Android was still mostly a gleam in Andy Rubin’s eye. The hot smartphones of the day included … Continue reading An Act of Folly: Smartphones in Five Years

Why Google Will Use Motorola To Become Vertically Integrated

If you look closely at the most successful company in tech today, it is Apple. And they are in this position for a major reason. They are completely vertically integrated. They own the OS, the hardware and the ecosystem. And although they don’t manufacture their own chips, the IP in their chips are homegrown and … Continue reading Why Google Will Use Motorola To Become Vertically Integrated

The Fallacies of How To Compete with the iPad

I take articles like this claiming the iPad will drop below 50% market share by as early as next year with a grain of salt. I don’t want this article to be about all the reasons why we believe the iPad will maintain significant market share, we have written quite extensively about those reasons. I’d … Continue reading The Fallacies of How To Compete with the iPad

Why My Next Tablet Will Run Windows 8

I’ve been using Windows-based tablet computers for almost a decade. I was hooked the moment Bill Gates trotted out Microsoft’s first prototype tablets at a developer event in mid-2001. I got my first tablet, a Fujitsu Stylistic, in 2003 and I’ve carried it or its successors to meetings ever since, migrating along the way from … Continue reading Why My Next Tablet Will Run Windows 8

Ultrabooks, MacBook Air, and the Need for Inspiration

Is the laptop business doomed to slowly ebb away as tablets capture more and more of the mobile market? It’s not hard to see a future where the world is divided into tablets and smartphones for the overwhelming majority of uses and workstations for heavy-duty computing, with very little in between. This is not a … Continue reading Ultrabooks, MacBook Air, and the Need for Inspiration

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, … Continue reading The Case Against a 4-Inch iPhone

Two Sides of the Consumer Coin to Windows RT

Yesterday, Microsoft unveiled via a blog the different Windows 8 editions and comparing the different features and functionalities.  There are three versions, Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro, and Windows RT.  One of the biggest changes in Windows 8 versus previous editions is the support for the ARM architecture with NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments, and the … Continue reading Two Sides of the Consumer Coin to Windows RT

Should Apple Create an iWatch?

Last fall, I wrote an article on our site here suggesting four industries Apple could disrupt and one of the industries I mentioned was the watch industry. When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad Nano, he mentioned that one of his board members said he was going to find a way to strap it on to … Continue reading Should Apple Create an iWatch?

Why I Wouldn’t Invest in Facebook

First let me clarify that due to my line of work I do not invest personal money into any public tech stock. That being said, even if I did, I would not put my own money into Facebook when they go public. This has been an interesting week for Facebook. They acquired an extremely popular … Continue reading Why I Wouldn’t Invest in Facebook

Apple Will Sell Exactly 169,652,000 iPads in 2016

Need a lesson in the difference between precision and accuracy? Head over to the Gartner web site for the latest predictions of tablet sales over the next four years. With precision down to the nearest thousand–and I suspect that only space requirements kept the last three digits out of the forecast–Gartner purports to tell us … Continue reading Apple Will Sell Exactly 169,652,000 iPads in 2016

U.S. Government Support Won’t Save BlackBerry

The fact that the U.S. government is not about to abandon the BlackBerry as its smartphone of choice is a bit of good news for Research In Motion, a company that hasn’t had much to cheer about lately. But it is unlikely to help much in the long run, let alone provide salvation for RIM. … Continue reading U.S. Government Support Won’t Save BlackBerry

An iPad Firestorm About Nothing

Apple’s newest iPad hit the market three weeks ago and already their have been a number of controversies surrounding the device. As expected, all of the issues fizzled out because there was really nothing there in the first place. The first issue brought up by Consumer Reports was that the iPad was much hotter than … Continue reading An iPad Firestorm About Nothing

5 Million Galaxy Note Shipments Proves One Thing

I am actually not surprised at the news that Samsung has shipped (not sold) 5 Million Galaxy Note smart phones. Given that it is doubtful that Samsung will reveal actual sales figures as well as regional breakdowns, my educated guess is that most of these devices were shipped and sold in Korea, as also pointed … Continue reading 5 Million Galaxy Note Shipments Proves One Thing