Posts Tagged ‘featured’
Tech earnings preview for week of January 19th
I’m kicking off a new series of posts for Insiders every Monday for the next several weeks, offering a preview of major tech companies’ earnings for that week. I’ve always done extensive analysis of financial reporting...
Why Obama Probably Can’t Succeed with Fiber
President Obama is vigorously–for a change–pushing two modifications in government policy for internet networks. One, changing the treatment of internet service to be more like the telephone service, is a complex issue with strong arguments on both sides....
Understanding Xiaomi Part 1: As a Smart phone Company
I am going to embark on a three part series about Xiaomi. Today, I’ll talk about Xiaomi as a smart phone company. Next, I’ll talk about them as an Internet of Things company. Lastly, I’ll...
The Accessory Benefiting Most from Low Cost Android Phones
Every year I walk the little known back halls of CES where the Chinese/Shenzhen manufacturers show off products coming out of the their manufacturing ecosystem. Given the global influence of the Shenzhen manufacturing ecosystem, I go...
Smartphone winners, the car and the home
Last week, I prepared a presentation on the connected car and smart home for one of my clients and I had the opportunity to present the resulting slides on Monday this week. I wanted to...
The Apple Electronics Show
Every year, pundits and Apple-focused writers make the point that, while Apple is absent from CES, their products and presence are still very much at CES. My friend Avi made this astute point in a...
Palm and the Potential Silliness of CES
Ed Colligan, a founder and former CEO of Palm, got it right. In a post to Facebook (on former Fox PR head Lynn Fox’s page), Colligan says: “I think it’s amazing these companies think they can buy...
Tech Devices Owned in 2014
>As we enter 2015, I wanted to give our readers a look at some of my survey data highlighting the percentage of ownership by specific tech products as of the end of Q4 2014 from...
Does Google Care About Android Tablets? Should They?
One of the nice features of Android is the operating system has built-in functions that allow smartphone apps to scale well to many different screen sizes. As Google can’t control the screen sizes their Android hardware...
How Apple could Drive 3D Printing in the Future
I have been fascinated by 3D printers since HP showed me a prototype about 8 years ago. At that time, they were expensive and pretty primitive but it gave me a real glimpse into the concept and allowed me...
Mobile App Development Challenges
Despite all the hype around enterprise mobility, there are still significant challenges many organizations are facing. The simple truth is many organizations are finding the move to mobile applications more challenging than it might appear....
Where Can Intel Find Growth?
Jean-Louis Gassée, a veteran executive, investor, and observer of the tech industry, wrote an accurate and depressing account on the position of once high-flying Intel. Like Microsoft, Intel was unable to to keep up with a...
The Evolution of Search
One of the data services I subscribe to highlighted a specific trend their survey research uncovered. They called this trend “the slow death of search”. To illustrate, they graphed the following data. While the Y-axis...
A Deeper Dive on Android and iPhone in China
I’ve received a number of questions from readers about why I don’t talk as much about the US market for smartphones. It’s primarily because the US doesn’t offer any new interesting questions or problems. It’s...
The Danger of the $200 PC
There have been rumors of the return to netbook pricing in the PC market. We believe this could have an irreversible impact on overall PC prices. When we study the PC market, we see a high...
Xaomi Barred from Selling Phones in India
News hit today that the Indian courts have barred Xiamoi from selling phones in the country due to a complaint registered by Ericsson that Xiaomi is using Ericcson technology in their phones and not paying a royalty. Xiaomi officials claim they...
IBM Leads Apple Into the Corporate Market
The last time Apple and IBM did serious business, the companies were fighting over the processors that powered the Macs of the day. IBM had no interest in meeting Apple’s desire for G5 chips for laptops...
The Implications of the Low Price Tablet Era
I’ve been tracking nuances of the global tablet market since the origins of the category. As I emphasize in my analysis, we know not all tablets are created or used equally. I’ve also been adamant about … Continue reading
Time For Entirely New Myths At Apple
Steve Jobs is dead. There’s no bigger, richer company on the planet than Apple. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has repeatedly stated this most American of companies will soon garner more of its sales from China...
Apple in 2015
I’ve been getting calls from reporters working on end-of-year pieces looking towards 2015. While I always enjoy these conversations, one problem is only a fraction of what we discuss ever makes it into an article. So...
Why Chromebooks Have No Consumer Market Future
The question of whether Chromebooks will have a future in pure consumer markets is an intriguing one. There’s no question Chromebooks are well positioned for education markets where they are selling in volume. But I...
How Apple can get to a Trillion Dollar Valuation
For the first time in Apple’s history, its market cap reached approx $750 billion dollars recently. Articles have come out stating Apple could become the first trillion dollar business on the planet. It is hard to...
Apple’s Huge and Profitable Niche
After reflecting on discussions I had regarding my article on disruption of last week, another train of thought began. I captured the fundamental concept in this Tech.pinions subscriber article called “profitable niches.” As pointed out in the...
Takeaways From IBM’s Black Friday E-Commerce Report
Recently, IBM released their post Black Friday analytics report. As always, it includes some interesting takeaways around devices and platforms used for Black Friday e-commerce. Before digging into the report, I thought this tweet from...
Mobile Is Eating The Car
I attended last week’s Los Angeles Auto Show, as I do every year. While the norm among native Californians seems to be to fly from San Francisco to Los Angeles, I always drive. I make...
