Snapchat – The Teen Social Network Buzzfeed wrote an excellent article on Snapchat where Ben Rosen interviewed his sister about her Snapchat usage. It is not only entertaining but also very insightful. I recommend you read it. A few things stood out to me. The first is how Snapchat is basically a social network for … Continue reading Snapchat (The Teen Social Network), Google and VR, Amazon’s Head Fake
Microsoft’s Fight for the Consumer Related to Microsoft’s earnings, I’m going to focus on one segment of earnings I will be keeping a close eye on in the next few years. It is this chart: Why you ask? Because Microsoft’s Surface strategy is the frontline of their battle to not lose the consumer. No one … Continue reading Microsoft’s Fight for the Consumer, Google’s Mobile Search Shift, Amazon Retail
Bloomberg reported this past week that, based on a court transcript from the Oracle-Google lawsuit, Google paid Apple $1 billion in 2014 to be the default search engine in Safari on iOS. The transcript has since disappeared and neither Google nor Apple have commented on this figure (now or at any previous time). I thought … Continue reading Dissecting Google’s Apple Relationship
Last week, an Oracle lawyer said in court that Google had made $31 billion in revenue and $22 billion in profit from Android, according to Bloomberg. ~ Miguel Helft (T)he comparisons between Google’s Android business and Apple’s iOS business that are starting to surface (Apple generated $32.2 billion in iPhone sales in the most recent quarter), well, they don’t … Continue reading Who Won The Smartphone Wars: Google Or Apple?
Amazon’s Delivery Service The Seattle Times headline on the news of Amazon buying the rest of French package-delivery company Colis Privé stated “Amazon poised to take on UPS, FedEx in delivery business”. While it is true this will make them a competitor to UPS and FedEx in France, much of the commentary around this move … Continue reading Amazon’s Delivery Service, Snapchat’s Video Power, Google Play in China
For the last few months, we have been writing about the fact that millions of people, especially the younger generation, came into the digital age via smartphones. More importantly, their primary OS has been Apple’s iOS or Google’s Android. While Windows is still an important OS, it is mainly used for PCs. For billions of … Continue reading Why Google is at a Major Crossroads
Google announced yesterday something it’s been rumored to be working on for a long time: their first “streaming” apps, available as part of the Google search apps on Android devices. This is just one of a number of changes that might come to the way mobile apps work in the coming years. But one of … Continue reading Google and the Future of Apps
News broke last week that Google was in the process of possibly merging Chrome and Android into what perhaps we should call “ChromeDroid”. Although Google has not confirmed this (yet), Eric Schmidt’s recent comments at an event in Asia suggests this is likely. If you have read my columns in Tech.pinions recently, I have often … Continue reading How Apple Prompted Google to Create “Chromedroid”
This week Ben Bajarin, Jan Dawson and Bob O’Donnell discuss earnings results from Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Ebay, analyze some of the news and trends coming from Dell World, and chat about the growing impact of Chinese hardware companies across many different device categories. Click here to subscribe in iTunes. If you happen to use … Continue reading Podcast: Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Ebay, Dell World, China OEMs
This week Tim Bajarin, Ben Bajarin, Jan Dawson and Bob O’Donnell discuss the recent Google Nexus product introduction event, debate Amazon’s stopping sales of Google Chromecast and Apple TV hardware, and analyze AT&T’s recent industry analyst event. Click here to subscribe in iTunes. If you happen to use a podcast aggregator or want to add … Continue reading Podcast: Google Nexus, Amazon, AT&T
I’d like to dive in a little deeper on Tim’s article of earlier today and address a few points. Over the past few months, we have been having some heart to heart conversations with those in the PC ecosystem — Dell, HP, Lenovo, Intel, Microsoft and so on. The meat of these conversations is what … Continue reading Google’s Continued Onslaught of Microsoft with Pixel C
Last week, I wrote a piece on Tech.pinions that pointed out Gen Y, Gen Z and Millennials have all grown up with iPhones and iOS has become their main mobile operating system. I reasoned that, when this generation moves into the business world, it is most likely they will want tools that favor iOS rather … Continue reading Why Google Needs to Back Android for Large 2-in-1’s and Laptops
Tomorrow, Google will be announcing a range of new devices as well as finalizing the latest version of Android, code-named “Marshmallow”. At this point, a great deal is known about what will be announced, based on leaks and reporting from various Android blogs, including the names of the two Nexus phones and some of the … Continue reading Google Event Preview
Next week, Google is holding an event in San Francisco to announce (we’re told) new Nexus phones along with a finalized Marshmallow version of Android along with some other hardware. The Nexus phone line remains one of the oddities of the global smartphone market and there have been rumors for some time that the whole … Continue reading Why Does Google Still Make Nexus Phones?
This week Tim Bajarin, Ben Bajarin, and Jan Dawson discuss the key tech news items of the week. Click here to subscribe in iTunes. If you happen to use a podcast aggregator or want to add it to iTunes manually the feed to our podcast is: techpinions.com/feed/podcast
The accusations Google has been manipulating search results have been happening for some time. It was this last article I read on the subject which brought about a thought. We shouldn’t blame Google for manipulating search results in order to favor their business model. But, as we reflect on how (through apps) Google did it … Continue reading Google, Apps, and the Closed Web
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in tech news, despite the traditional summer lull where major news is concerned. Among the biggest news this past week has been Apple’s launch of Apple Music and Beats 1, and Microsoft’s sale of its display ad business to AOL (Verizon). I want to use these two particular … Continue reading Apple and Google’s Partners
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, I had the distinct privilege of serving on the Xerox PARC Venture advisory board. This arm of Xerox PARC was created in the heyday of the early internet and was designed to look at technology inside Xerox PARC and mine the IP to either find ways to productize … Continue reading Is Google’s X Lab the Xerox PARC of Our Day?
At this year’s Google I/O Conference, the company announced Now On Tap, the next-gen version of its Google Now digital assistant, which can contextually improve how you experience apps using an updated machine learning algorithm and something they call “deep linking.” The idea behind this is, if you get a text saying to meet at … Continue reading Why Context is the Next Battleground for Apple, Google and Microsoft
Welcome to this week’s Tech.pinions Podcast. This week Ben Bajarin, Jan Dawson, and Bob O’Donnell analyze Google’s recent I/O event in great detail, covering Android M, Brillo, Google Now, Photos, Android Pay and more. Click here to subscribe in iTunes. If you happen to use a podcast aggregator or want to add it to iTunes … Continue reading Podcast: Google I/O
The wise understand Google’s predicament. Google’s growth is slowing as the customers who matter the most monetarily to Google are now online in some form via a PC, tablet, or smartphone. Monetizing this customer base is how they will grow meaningful revenue. Adding another billion people using their services is not the short term answer … Continue reading Google I/O: Optimism and Skepticism
For the time being, there are two developer and ecosystem events which set the tone for the consumer tech industry at large — Google I/O and Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference. For the much of the past 4-5 years as these events have gained steam, Apple and Google seemed to be on similar paths. On … Continue reading Foundations for Apple and Google
Welcome to this week’s Tech.pinions Podcast. This week Tim Bajarin, Jan Dawson, and Bob O’Donnell discuss the 10th Annual Maker Faire, preview our expectations for Google I/O, and debate the opportunities for messaging platforms. Click here to subscribe in iTunes. If you happen to use a podcast aggregator or want to add it to iTunes … Continue reading Podcast: Maker Faire, Google IO Preview, Messaging Platforms
We’re now in what’s arguably become the most significant period of the year for three of the largest consumer technology companies in the world — the developer conference season. The developer events for Microsoft, Google, and Apple now end up shaping much of what’s to come from these companies in the next year, from new versions … Continue reading The Challenges Google Needs to Deal With at I/O
I have been spending time looking at a new telecom initiative that Google is about to launch called Project Fi. If done right, it could be a disruptive move into the wireless telecom market. This project is both an experiment and an innovative concept at the same time. The idea is that if a person … Continue reading Will Google get Project Fi Right?
