More Thoughts on Apple’s Challenges

I’ve posted some more thoughts on the challenges that Apple faces as the smartphone arms race continues to heat up on the Altimeter Group Blog. I’ve advanced my thinking a bit from my last post, but even with this week’s news on Q4 numbers, I’m still not convinced our friends at AAPL are invincible despite market cap and [...]

Some More Thoughts on Android 4.0, Tablet Version

After living with the OS for a couple of days, some more thoughts on Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich on my Moto Xoom, overall, a good experience, app migration notwithstanding. Android 4 ICS on Xoom 2 from Chris Silva on Vimeo.

Overview of Android 4.0, On Moto Xoom Tablet

This week, owners of existing Android devices (as opposed to new-in-market smartphones) got an update to Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich. My official update rolled out to my Wifi Motorola Xoom Tablet mid-week, below I review some of my initial impressions of the new OS, in my view an improvement over Honeycomb (Android 3.0.) [...]

Theirs To Lose

The mobile world is abuzz around new data from Nielsen that has headline streaming across newsreaders using phrases like “..Close The Gap On Android… ” Has Android lost some share? Sure it has, but let’s not place the laurel on Apple’s head quite yet. The company has been playing “catch up” in features against Android, [...]

The End Of The Mobile Pro Shop?

2012, in its relative youth has already been an interesting year in mobile, and not because of all of the pre-CES hype that is getting press around the newest, lightest, thinnest most unlikely to survive handsets. It’s been a big week for acquisitions in the mobile space, mostly of mobile-specific agencies. Earlier in January we [...]

CES Day 2 Recap: The Innovation Is In The Interaction

As I wrapped up my second day at CES, themes from the first continued to carry through in every message that I saw from the vendors presenting on the floor and in private sessions. I presented some of these thoughts to a group of executives, below are some of the excepts from that conversation. This [...]

CES Day 1 Recap: You Are The Controller

Last night, Steve Ballmer kicked off CES 2012 with the last keynote Microsoft will lead, a role it has played at the show for the past 14 years. Ballmer covered Windows Phone 7, the upcoming Windows 8 and Xbox as his main areas of focus, going through each, interview-style with sidekick Ryan Seacrest. Striking to [...]