Archive For

June 2022

Meta vs. Developers – Eaters of cake.

Developers want to have their cake and eat it. The notion that Meta Platforms is treating developers unfairly when it is on course to lose...

Pinterest – Ready, set, go!

Ready for recovery? Pinterest is changing its CEO with its founder moving aside to make room for new blood from Google that will undoubtedly start...

Apple & The Metaverse – Not yet

2023 is too early. Despite feverish speculation, Apple failed to launch a Metaverse device at WWDC 2022 and now speculation has shifted to early 2023...

Autonomous Autos 2021 – Creaking at the seams

AutoX takes a questionable lead. Waymo, Baidu (Apollo) and Zoox have fallen way down in the ratings leading me to question whether the analysis of...

Arm / SoftBank – No winners

Delay is increasingly the best option. The discussion over which exchange Arm is going to re-list on is increasingly irrelevant as the far more pressing...

Tesla – Hero or zero

Elon Musk finally makes a credible prediction. Elon Musk’s prediction that self-driving is “really the difference between Tesla being worth a lot of money or...

The Metaverse – Turing test

Turing is not the issue. Meta Platforms has revealed a series of prototypes that it intends to develop into products that will make its Metaverse...

Klarna – WeWork replay?

Despite the parallels, Klarna is not a re-run of WeWork. At a high level, Klarna looks like a re-run of WeWork although it is a...

Nothing Phone – Risky branding

Nothing phone needs to not live up to its name. Another brave soul has decided to have a crack at the highly concentrated and brutally...

Crypto – Coin crunch pt. II

Crypto heads for a deep freeze. The rhetoric around the safe haven and inflation hedging properties of crypto has gone eerily quiet as it transpires...