Lost in a Sea of Apps: App Store Optimization
A big topic here at D2D Headquarters is exploring ways for app developers to get paid. So first, credit where credit is due. Smartphones have opened up a huge market […]
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 […]
Small Cells: 3 Questions
Most people now agree that the next wave of performance gains for mobile networks will have to come from ‘small cells’. That is, instead of using the large ‘macro’ base […]
Basebands: A New Year, in some ways more than others
The focus in the baseband market is now very much on LTE. With major carriers rolling out LTE networks in the US, Northern Europe, Japan, Korea and a few other […]
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 […]