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Alphabet – Wishful thinking

Google is not going to become Apple.   Google reported good Q4 19 results, but its greater disclosure unwittingly revealed that hardware has again let the side down and I...

Apple – Edge issues

Xnor.ai will not fix the fragmentation issue. Apple’s acquisition of Xnor.ai increases my concerns with regards to Apple’s approach to AI and may make it fall further behind. Apple is...

Google Pixel – Damage done pt. III

Yet another avoidable blunder. In what is becoming a recurring habit, reviewers have found a serious problem with the Google Flagship device that further underlines my view that Google should...

Huawei – Nowhere to run pt. X

Google flips the kill switch on the workaround. Huawei’s imperfect, but viable, backdoor to add Google Services to its devices has been killed off by Google which virtually guarantees that...

Android 10 – Pointless innovation

Smartphones could be obsolete before this update is complete. Android 10 (Q) becomes available today but it could be as much as 7-10 years before all of Google’s Ecosystem devices...

Apple WWDC 19 – Nice but dull.

Apple inches its ecosystem forward. Beneath the pomp and the adoring crowd was a series of updates to its core platforms which inched the iOS ecosystem forward but, in reality,...

Huawei – Nowhere to run pt. II

Any alternative to Google is an exercise in futility. Whatever alternative Huawei comes up with for Google’s digital ecosystem is extremely unlikely to be able to prevent an almost complete...

Google i/o 2019 – Innovation not revolution

Incremental improvements hallmark a rather humdrum keynote. With less to say about AI and Android, Google added hardware launches and pushed a privacy agenda in its keynote in a sign...

Android Q – Humdrum update

The most interesting feature is the new logo It looks like Google i/o is going to be rather dull this year as tinkering with the beta has revealed that the...

Android Q – Q is for Quiescent.

Google i/o shaping up to be a snooze. The next version of Android has leaked ahead of the usual developer preview and it looks to me like innovation in Android...