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Palm phone – Doomed experiment.

A resurrection best not practised The Palm brand (now owned by TCL) has launched a new device which is arguably more useless than cellular in the Apple Watch as it...

Samsung Developer Conference – Communicator II

Samsung reinvents the Nokia Communicator but sadly, doubles down on Bixby. Samsung has shown (see here) the form factor within which it thinks that a folding screen will be most...

CES 2019 – Optimistic origami pt. II

If you fold it, will they come? With most major announcements now out of the way before CES 2019, the folding screen is positioning itself to be the biggest theme...

Apple FQ4 18 – Opacity rules

Apple signals the way ahead is less predictable. Apple reported excellent FQ4 18 results but guided weakly for FQ1 19 which combined with Apple putting an end to disclosing unit...

Apple vs. Android – The price of price.

Apple benefits but Android suffers. The result of huge increases in device prices is now being felt as data from the US indicates that iPhone users, in particular, are holding...

Google vs. EU – Priced to fail

Even at $15 per unit, the impact is catastrophic. Google’s price list for its apps minus Chrome and Search is an indication that the economics of the EU remedy are...

Essential Products – The obvious clue

Must-have, not me too needed to survive. The clue to a recovery for Essential Products Inc. is in the name but so far, none of the rapidly diminishing workforce appear...

Google – Toothless in Europe pt. IV.

$25 per unit will shatter what little profitability there is. Google is set to change its licensing practices in Europe such that Google apps will be unbundled from both Google...

Apple – Upward mobility

Verticalisation remains the way forward for now. Apple’s verticalisation continues with its semi-acquisition of Dialog Semiconductor making a lot more to unravel when the iPhone bandwagon finally grinds to a...

Apple – Under the hood.

The real action is inside the new products. The new, universally leaked, devices are pretty dull on the outside but it is what Apple has done on the inside, particularly...