iPhone 4S Disappointment Shows Appearances Matter, A Lot
The iPhone 4S is a completely different phone from its predecessor. Really. Screen and exterior industrial design aside, there’s almost nothing that’s the same as the older iPhone 4. Mobile industry...
View ArticleMobile Metadata Monday: Apple latest; Nielsen & Comscore Smartphones; JD...
Today’s round-up of recent wireless, smartphone, tablet, and other mobile data. There’s a summary of the data at the top with more figures, analysis and links to all of the sources included further...
View ArticleThe BlackBerry BIS Outage is a Bigger Threat to RIM than the iPhone 4S or...
RIM’s BlackBerry customers are experiencing a further outage as the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) fails again (BBC News coverage) for the second day of problems. The issues started yesterday, on...
View ArticleApple’s iMessage Cannibalizes SMS But is No Threat to Operators
A major part of Apple’s new iOS software update is iMessage, which replaces the iPhone’s standard SMS app. The iOS5 software is compatible with approximately 200m of the 250m total iOS devices sold,...
View ArticleGoogle’s new Android Software Needs an Artistic Media Soul to Succeed in Tablets
[updated October 19 with the latest Q3 Apple results and the official name of the new Nexus] A new version of Android will be available in November, initally on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone....
View ArticleThe Rise of Digital Civilizations Will Define Our Post-PC Future
Everyone knows the biggest battles in technology are today being fought by a small number of large organizations. We intuitively know who these great powers are: Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and...
View ArticleBlackBerry Mobile Fusion Heralds the ‘ITization of the Person’
People’s unofficial use at work of personally-bought smartphones will lead to personal devices and personal information being managed by corporate IT departments. RIM has just announced BlackBerry...
View ArticleGoogle Q4 2011 results: the search for mobile revenue and profits
In Google’s most recent results the company reported: 250m Android devices activated to date. This represents first time activations of devices that include Google’s proprietary apps such as Gmail,...
View ArticleWhere to follow online – Apple’s WWDC 2012 keynote and the Euro 2012 England...
The WWDC 2012 event keynote starts at 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern, 6pm UK and 7pm CET. For those following the Euro 2012, UEFA football. The match between England and France clashes with the WWDC...
View ArticleRIM makes the bold decision to delay BlackBerry 10
During Blackberry producer RIM’s quarterly results the company announced it was delaying the launch of the next generation BlackBerry 10 smartphones from 2012 to the first quarter of 2013. RIM posted a...
View ArticleFive years of iPhone disruption
In June 2007, the first iPhone went on sale. Apple shipped a total of just 1.5 million units in the iPhone’s first two quarters. Many commentators at the time viewed the iPhone as a substandard device,...
View ArticleApple’s results demonstrate where it has sustainable differentiation
This year increasingly appears to be characterised by a holding action for Apple in new product innovation. Having revamped its tablets, iPod, iPhone and Mac form factors and industrial designs late...
View ArticleWith lens style cameras Sony creates a new mobile product category
Since the end of the Sony Ericsson joint venture, the new Sony has been making grand statements about a unified strategy across business units and an end to silos. With the lens-style cameras, Sony is...
View ArticleApple’s re-engineered iOS8 will entice app developers to make more iPhone...
iOS 8 will dramatically improve the competitiveness of iOS against the challenge of Google’s Android. The ability of third party iOS apps to offer services and features to other apps through iOS 8’s...
View ArticleApple risks new categories with iPhone 6 phablet and Apple Watch
Our Analysis – iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus expands Apple’s reach The iPhone acts as a critical bridgehead to acquire new customers, and as a foundation for new ventures such as Apple Watch and Apple...
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