Netflix Q2 19 – Risky business
Netflix is now a studio. A great set of results was disfigured by slower user growth as price increases and the verticalisation of the content...
Artificial Intelligence – Catch-up.
UC Irvine treads in Deep Mind’s footsteps. The University of California has created an algorithm that can solve Rubik’s cube from scratch, but I think...
Yandex – Robotic dark horse.
Yandex is closer to robotaxis than Tesla. Yandex’s subsidiary is expanding its reach into the taxi industry in Russia which provides a route to market...
5G – The patent game.
Updated version. Original mistakenly identified only one working chipset in commercial handsets. RFM is aware of two. Patent counting is very misleading. A report at...
Autonomous autos – Pie in the sky.
The whole industry is worth $16.7bn. The valuations being attributed to autonomous driving hopefuls are so high, that I think investors must be assuming that...
Huawei – Nowhere to run pt. VI
It is still a reprieve in name only. A statement from the US Secretary of Commerce (see here) has been interpreted by the press (see...
Tesla – King Canute
Elon Musk is becoming a big problem. Outside of a chronic inability to scale, Tesla’s biggest problem is rapidly becoming its mercurial CEO where I...
Google Hardware – Paging Dr. Porat
I think Google’s condition may finally be treated. While the wires are already speculating on the form factor of the Google Pixel 4 due to...
MoviePass – The reality gap
All downhill from here. The move by MoviePass to suspend its service for a few weeks is almost certainly a sign that the end has...
Samsung, Huawei et al – Nasty origami pt. V.