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Eco-systems

Google – Turn of the screw

          Google is the only winner in the Android ecosystem. June is becoming one of the most important months of the year for the mobile ecosystem...

Blackberry – No prisoners

          Life without handsets will be little better than with. John Chen has finally admitted the possibility of failing to turn around Blackberry saying that the...

Apple iOS 8 – No silver bullet

          iOS 8 is not going to solve the long term services problem. Apple’s hardware and its ecosystem are world leading but both of them are...

Amazon TV – Better not bigger

          Fire TV makes its ecosystem richer not bigger. Amazon has taken the first of two plunges into the consumer ecosystem that I am expecting this...

Microsoft – Increment not detriment

          Two steps forward. None back. Microsoft made two good steps towards improving the appeal of the Windows ecosystem to both users and developers at its...

Android – Command and control

          Google – 10. Handset makers – 0. The latest edict from Google requires handset makers who want to implement Google apps to display a “powered...

BlackBerry Q4 – Last lap?

          Q4 gives no reason to hope. BlackBerry reported disappointing results as the two most important metrics of a company in trouble (revenue and cash flow)...

Microsoft – Keeping mum.

          Good launches but no clues given for the longer term. Microsoft stuck firmly to the script at its press conference when it launched Office for...

Sony – All the stops

          Sony is making the right moves to become a proper ecosystem. It’s a long shot for Sony to become one of the major ecosystems but...

Yahoo! – Game on

          An encouraging move by Yahoo! to fix its ecosystem. Yahoo! looks at last to be beginning to do something about grouping its collection of assets...