Apple finally commits to the cloud
Up until the WWDC keynote this week, I was convinced that Apple simply didn’t understand the cloud or how to use it to share content conveniently across devices, but they surprised me on Monday with...
View ArticleiPhone and Android could be the next BlackBerry at some point
Could someone be working on the next great mobile device inside a Silicon Valley garage? This morning, Horace Dediu wrote his farewell to BlackBerry on LinkedIn pointing out the odd volatility of the...
View ArticleApple has a lot in common with The Rolling Stones
Like the Stones, Apple has to find a way to capture the magic every time out. Yesterday Apple announced a couple of new phones, one a lower priced one, one a typical high end one. As I peruse social...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s pathetic attempt to buy Windows 8 mobile customers
Microsoft’s attempt to buy Apple products in exchange for Windows mobile ones smacks of desperation. Microsoft’s latest gambit to get people to buy their tablets and smartphones is to pay Apple...
View ArticleSeems rumors of Apple’s demise have been greatly exaggerated
Apple proved critics wrong as their new iPhones sold in huge numbers this weekend. The lines were still there. The product still flew out the door and by weekend’s end in an astonishing show of...
View ArticleMicrosoft should have shut up and ignored Apple taunting
The other day at the Apple press event announcing a slew of new products, services and pricing schemes, Apple officials took a few not-so-subtle swipes at Microsoft without naming names. They couched...
View ArticleCEO roadkill sign that disruption is catching up with the old guard
We are starting to see the massive impact of mobile disruption on traditional PC hardware and software companies and older phone manufacturers. In Clayton Christensen’s seminal book on disruption,...
View ArticleApple gets a juicy new market with China Mobile deal
Apple announced a juicy new deal with China Mobile this week, which according to the New York Times, gives them access to a huge new market starting next month. Apple sold 23 million iPhones in China...
View ArticleWhy Google gives Android away
We all know Google gives Android away, and for most of us, when we see a business giving something away, something they could very well make money on, it seems completely counter-intuitive. But Google...
View ArticleSeems Apple can’t win for losing
This week Apple released its quarterly numbers and by all rights they were downright impressive, but why then did Wall Street punish them the day after the release? It seems no sales record is big...
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