SoftBank – Pressure cooker
Softbank must be under real pressure. In the current environment, the last thing one should do is bring a highly valued, loss-making, sharing economy-based company...
Autonomous Autos 2019 – All change
The field tightens a long way away from commercial offerings. Disengagement data from the California DMV (see here) shows that Waymo has lost its lead...
Toyota – Prancing horse.
Toyota comes to its senses (sort of). After its inexplicable investment in Uber’s self-driving unit (see here) at a valuation of $7.25bn and its madcap...
Foldable devices – Nasty Origami pt. VI.
Screen durability and price still hold back this enticing segment. Despite the cancellation of MWC, Huawei is going ahead with its device launches as planned...
Ford – Ship and remember.
Ford is starting to understand digital. I may have issues with Ford’s view on vehicle demand (see here) but there are signs that Ford is...
Google Stadia – Humble pie.
Google should issue refunds. Gaming on mobile phones remains a huge opportunity because outside of China, there is no dominant player but the way that...
Tesla / Mobileye – Double vision
Robotaxis will not be appearing anytime soon. McAfee has exposed a corner case that triggered dangerous behaviour by a Tesla vehicle in another example of...
Blue Apron – No bottom
Blue Apron shares are probably going to zero. Another set of awful results has forced the board of Blue Apron to seek “strategic alternatives” which...
COVID-19 – No-one knows
Apple does not know how badly it will miss FQ2 20. The first signs of the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the world economy...
About Me
Richard is founder, owner of research company, Radio Free Mobile. He has 16 years of experience working in sell side equity research. During his 11 year tenure at Nomura Securities, he focused on the equity coverage of the Global Technology sector.
Microsoft Cortana – Euthanasia