A Very Big Market – China’s Handset OEMs
In the 1980’s we saw the emergence of the PC production complex around Taiwan. This decade we are going to see a smart-device complex emerge around Shenzhen and South China. […]
Category Archives: Android
Google I/O Themes
I spent the day listening to Google’s developer conference in the background, while trying to do real work in the foreground. So I can’t say that I caught all the […]
Android numbers in context
Google opened their I/O Developer Conference today. In the keynote they called out a bunch of statistics at their I/O Developer Conference today – “900 million activations to date”, “1 […]
Location, Location, Location
If you have been around the mobile industry long enough you may remember when the great topic of the day was “Location-Based Services” (or LBS). No one really knew what […]
The New Front in the OS Wars: Browser Rendering Engines
Yesterday and today, all the attention seems to be on Facebook’s new “Home on Android”. The stock is up, and the new product is being covered all over the blogosphere. […]
Apple’s Apology in China, and why it matters to Android
Apple’s presence in China has been in the news a lot recently. After a week of seemingly orchestrated public criticism, their CEO Tim Cook took the ‘unprecedented’ step of publicly […]
D/D #2: Dr. Google and Mr. Android
Last week important news came out of Android. Andy Rubin who had founded the company and later ran it after the acquisition by Google announced that he was moving on […]
OS Wars: New Entrants
Probably one of the most talked about events at Mobile World Congress this year were the new entrants in the Operating System (OS) landscape. In particular, Mozilla made a big […]
Mobile World Congress 2013
D/D #1: Mobile World Congress 2013 New Venues, New Operating Systems, Small Cells and the Old Guard I attended Mobile World Congress last week and met with a whole cross-section […]
Two Horse Race? A Mobile OS Executive Summary
Over the next few days I am publishing a long overview of the mobile operating system (OS) landscape. Put simply, the smartphone business is starting to look a lot like […]