Posts Tagged ‘google’
The Business Model of Never Growing Up
The very mortal Larry Page and the rapidly aging Ray Kurzweil, in their mad, sad dash to live forever, will fail in this utterly futile, mostly human effort at denying the inevitable, at fighting that greatest of fleshly trappings, … Continue reading
Understanding the Global Mobile Web
In the latest mobile focused podcast with Benedict Evans and myself, we touched on a theme that needs more fleshing out. That of a future only possible because of mobile computers/smartphones. When I detail the … Continue reading
Technological Patriotism
Technology is breaking down barriers throughout the world. Conversely, a form of technological nationalism has taken hold, limiting tech’s rise. Expect such nationalist fervor to become more widespread, more virulent, probably more unfair. Technology is the new … Continue reading
Microsoft and Google’s platform problems
Microsoft and Google appear to be moving in different directions when it comes to their platforms and first party hardware, as I’ve written about before. However, in some respects they’re fighting the very same battle … Continue reading
I Was Wrong And The iPhone 5c Is Still A Failure
The best way to defeat the iPhone is to create a superior alternative to the app ecosystem. With widgets, notifications, continuity and inter-app processes in iOS 8, Apple did just that. Woe to Android, Windows Phone … Continue reading
Who Apple, Google and Microsoft Should Acquire Next
On Tuesday night, TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm asked on Twitter: If you were Microsoft/Google/Apple what company would you buy? — Alex Wilhelm (@alex) August 27, 2014 It was late and I fired off a quick response but I … Continue reading
Deeper Dive on Android vs iOS Web Usage
I gave a brief overview of my thoughts on global web usage in the Tech.pinions Insider weekly newsletter that goes out each weekend. But I wanted to dive into a few more points I think...
Mobile Focused Podcast: Less Expensive iPhones, and the Globalization of Tech
I’m happy to announce that I am rolling up my podcast with Andreessen Horowitz partner Benedict Evans into the Tech.pinions podcast as well. We will shoot to release these discussions between us every few weeks, … Continue reading
The Major Industry Battle Brewing Between Samsung vs Google
Over the last five years, Samsung has become a behemoth in the tech marketplace. Their smartphones dominate the tech landscape and their profits have been relatively good until recently, considering the fact they still make most … Continue reading
The Smartphone Is Not Merging With the PC
Behold the pot, bathtub and swimming pool. They all contain water. They are the same. ~ Horace Dediu (@asymco) On July 9, 2014, Walt Mossberg published an article entitled: “How the PC Is Merging With … Continue reading
Decoding Page And Brin
I have noticed successful CEOs share an uncanny ability to lay bare a company’s strategy while simultaneously leading you down a false path. Steve Jobs was a master at this. I learned from watching Jobs...
Life Liberty And Pursued By Google
If we do not have a right to be forgotten on the Internet then we have no right to privacy. None. We cannot allow Google and Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales to strip us of this basic … Continue reading
Apple’s New Strategy Is Their Old Strategy, Only More So
An Apple Strategy Failure Let’s start with a little history. In the 1980’s… Apple had agreed to license certain parts of its GUI to Microsoft for use in Windows 1.0, but when Microsoft made changes...
Has iPhone Lost The Best Value Crown?
Smartphones have gotten so good, so fast, and become so vital and accessible in such a short time, it’s difficult to accurately predict the direction of this market over just the next year, and nearly...
The One Where Brian Is Wrong About Everything
Please allow me to introduce myself… You likely don’t care and would not believe the volume of blog posts, research reports, technical writings and analyst studies I sift through on a daily basis. This is … Continue reading
The Genius Of Steve Jobs Or Why Google And Facebook Must Make Big Bets
The ghost of Steve Jobs haunts Google and Facebook. Unlike Apple, which has always aligned its interests with its users, both Google and Facebook must serve two masters: users and customers. They are not the...
Market Share Metaphysics
Twice before I have used Aristotle’s concept of “Essentialism” to explain why tablets are “real” computers and why OS X will not be merging with iOS. Today, I go to the well one last time1...
Rebuttal: Why Android Wear Is Not the Beginning of the Wearable Devices Era
Molly Wood, writing for the New York Times, thinks that Android Wear is the beginning of the wearable devices era. I doubt that. The Line Of Reasoning This is Woods’ argument in a nutshell: 1)...
Why Bitcoin Still Does Not Matter
You can buy Bitcoin today, swap your next mortgage payment for this aggressively hyped “cryptocurrency,” lose it all to crime, fraud or incompetence, no questions asked. Yet you are still legally barred from even participating … Continue reading
Better For The World? Apple Or Google?
Arguably, Apple and Google are the largest, richest, most powerful, most influential technology companies on the planet. Across many markets their products, services and technologies directly compete with one another. Yet, in countless endeavors, each...
Why I Fear Apple CarPlay
I am excited by Apple CarPlay. But mostly terrified. Excited, because I love constant, unbroken access to my phone, music, apps, maps, search, contacts, tweets, email — everything on my smartphone, in fact. Terrified, because … Continue reading
India And The Future Of The Smartphone Wars
Perhaps I should have titled this “India Is The Future Of The Smartphone Wars”? The appointment of the highly capable Satya Nadella to lead Microsoft only partly explains why I am thinking more about India...
Who Won The Mobile Tech Olympics?
Business is a combination of war and sport. ~ André Maurois The Long Summer Of The Microsoft Monopoly Olympics Computing was pretty simple for the last 15 years: PC plus a browser. Both are splintering … Continue reading
How Is It Possible That Google Is So Bad At What It Should Be Great At?
Mark Zuckerberg cooly plunked down $19 large last week for a SMS-like app that most Americans had never used, probably never will. The move was labelled bold, brilliant, strategic. Zuckerberg branded a badass, a visionary, … Continue reading
The Death Of iPhone. The Death Of Android. The Rebirth Of Facebook.
Well, that was a heckuva week. Google sells Motorola for billions less than they paid for it. Apple sells millions fewer iPhones than nearly everyone expected, then directs guidance lower. Facebook becomes a mobile first … Continue reading
