Good morning, Today is Asia-themed, but with a US twist. On to the updates: Apps on Xiaomi According to Flurry, Xiaomi users love apps: Over the past 6 years, the average Apple iPhone consumer has spent more time in apps than consumers of every Android device we track – by a wide margin. This year,Subscribe […]
Smartphone Truths and Samsung’s Inevitable Decline
For me, anyway, the most surprising thing about Samsung’s disappointing earnings was just how surprised many folks seemed to be. The smartphone market is a massive one, but also rather predictable if you keep just a few key things in mind: Everyone will own a smartphone – I don’t think this is controversial, but it’s […]
Daily Update: Samsung Profits Falling, Panasonic Toughbooks, Standards and the Internet of Things
Good morning, Just how useful is theory in understanding, and more importantly, predicting markets? Well, in the case of Samsung, pretty darn useful I’d say. On to the updates. Samsung Profits Falling From The Guardian: Samsung Electronics says that its second-quarter operating profits will fall to a two-year low, blaming growing competition in China, reluctantSubscribe […]
Daily Update: Microsoft Phone, Wearables, and Office; Facebook Acquires LiveRail; Google and the Right to Censor
Good morning, Happy Independence Day to all of my readers in the United States, and an early happy weekend to those of you in the rest of the world. Due to the holiday there will be no Daily Update tomorrow. On to today’s updates: Microsoft’s Muddle Continues There are three interesting items on Microsoft that,Subscribe […]
Daily Update: Twitter Buys Tap Commerce, Launches App Install Ads; Rakuten Launches Venture Fund
Good morning, I’m writing from Seoul’s Incheon Airport where we spent the night. Tomorrow’s update will come from Madison. On to the updates: Twitter Buys Tap Commerce Recode broke the news of Twitter’s latest acquisition: Twitter is in the process of acquiring Tap Commerce, a New York-based mobile advertising technology firm, according to sources familiarSubscribe […]
Additional Thoughts on iWatch and Android Wear
A few points of follow-up on last week’s piece Android Where?: So What About iWatch? I only mentioned the iWatch tangentially in last week’s piece, which is just as well, for it gives me an opportunity to link favorably to this piece on Techpinions by industry veteran Tim Bajarin about the (alleged) iWatch: I actually […]
Daily Update: The Aereo Case, Searching Phones Requires a Warrant, GoPro’s Successful IPO
Good morning, Yesterday I posted my promised piece about Android Wear specifically and contextual computing broadly (I’m a bit skeptical of both). Check it out here: Economic Power in the Age of Abundance. On to today’s update: The Aereo Case The Supreme Court decided against Aereo, a startup that offered a service which transmitted over-the-airSubscribe […]
Android Where?
There is no questioning the scope of Google’s ambitions. Consider the fact that yesterday’s two-and-a-half hour keynote was shorter than the 2013 version, and that the two keynotes had almost zero overlap! While last year Google spent a lot of time both enhancing the Android development environment and Google+, this year was about extending Android […]
Daily Update: Google I/O – Analysis on Every Announcement
Good morning, It’s the day after the Google I/O keynote, and I believe the actual presentation has concluded but I really should check to make sure… In all seriousness, this year’s presentation was actually shorter than last year’s, but no less ambitious. Like I did after WWDC, I’m going to spend this update running throughSubscribe […]
Daily Update: The FAA and Drones, Google to Preannounce New Android, Oculus Seeking Partners
Good morning, I wrote a piece yesterday about the latest attempt by European publishers to extract concessions out of Google for including their content in its listings. I’ve always found the idea kind of silly on the face of it, but actually thinking about why it is silly results in some interesting takeaways about whereSubscribe […]