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Airbnb – American losing streak

Reply to this post           Airbnb unlikely to win in China. Airbnb, like Uber and Amazon before it, has fight on its hands when it comes...

Facebook – Dial M pt. II

Reply to this post           Very little AI in the assistant that has launched. Now that Facebook’s digital assistant is available in the wild, one can...

E3 2017 – Glaring omission

Reply to this post           Very little interest in mobile gaming at E3. E3 is the biggest trade show for the computer games industry but it...

Essential Products – Domestic bliss.

Reply to this post           Home is where the heart is While I am not a fan of Essential Products’ phone (see here), I think that...

Amazon – A song of ice and fire.

Reply to this post           Project ice has nothing to do with phones. After racking up nearly $1bn in losses from its last foray into handsets,...

WWDC 2017 – Catch-up gems.

Reply to this post           Mostly catch up but studded with a few gems. While Apple spent most its time catching up with innovations made by...

Samsung Bixby – Failure to launch

Reply to this post           Bixby is not fit for purpose. Samsung has once again delayed the roll out of the voice component of its digital...

ARM vs. Intel – Silver bullet pt. II

Reply to this post           Implementation and performance will be everything. The second lap of trying to get Windows to work on ARM processors is in...

Essential Products – Not essential.

Reply to this post           Andy Rubin still works for Google.  Essential Products Inc has launched a series of products aimed at creating an ecosystem but...

Google DeepMind – Pebble hanging.

Reply to this post           AlphaGo’s retirement shows that humans are still needed.  AlphaGo is hanging up its pebbles after emphatically demonstrating that from here on,...