Archive For

March 2019

Microsoft – Better lucky than good.

Many years late but maybe not too late. Microsoft should be thankful that everyone else in the games industry has also made a mess of...

Samsung & Google – Engineering disease pt II.

The Chinese and Apple benefit from continued intransigence. I continue to believe that the best interest of Samsung and Google would be served by Samsung...

Epic Games – Impeccable strategy.

Another strategic masterstroke from Epic Games. Epic Games is showing no signs of being surprised by Fortnite’s success and has made yet another brilliant move...

Huawei vs. Samsung – Brutal dependency.

There is no plan B for Huawei that will work. If Huawei receives the same treatment as ZTE (for the same infraction), then its handset...

Sharing economy – The agony of history.

The cautionary tale of bike sharing. The cautionary tale of the bike sharing companies should give the scooter companies pause for thought as I suspect...

Artificial Intelligence – Cognition conundrum

Deep Learning’s limitations laid bare. Work on analysing how deep learning neural networks work clearly shows that these systems have no real understanding of what...

Facebook – Smokescreen

Under the rhetoric, very little changes. While Zuckerberg’s manifesto (see here) implies that a huge overhaul is on the way, the reality is that very...

Artificial Intelligence – Practitioners, pretenders & tricksters.

Taxonomy separates the men from the boys in AI. With 40% of “AI” companies not even attempting to use AI in their products and the...

Lyft – Self-flagellation

Lyft’s IPO is a rod for its own back Lyft’s IPO document reveals a company that I think will give its founders joy and validation...

Apple Automotive – Final shoe

A Titan falls. It looks like the final shoe is being dropped on Apple’s automotive aspirations as 190 Project Titan members are being let go...