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CES 2020 – Last word

Reality was the real theme at CES 2020 Back to reality The week started with its usual bunch of glitzy press conferences from the big players but their lack of...

CES Day 3 – Floor stories

Alexa goes endgame, Chinese disguise & HERE. Google vs Alexa – White suit brigade At a high level, it looks like Google has almost given up on the smart home,...

CES Day 2 – The little guys.

The action at CES is all with the small companies. Big guys are short of ideas. The big press conferences where the all the queues were to be found were...

CES Day 1 – Hot, cool & mad.

Byton – Still needs to address the elephant. Byton didn’t have new cars but it had plenty of new partners, a production-ready vehicle and some progress on its digital offering....

CES Day 0 – Where the buzz isn’t.

CES 2020 gets in tune with reality. CES 2020 is unlikely to go down as a vintage year of excitement meaning that half the story is going to about where...

TikTok – Circumnavigation.

ByteDance expands its presence overseas. TikTok is moving to ensure that it dominates Digital Life segments both inside and outside of China which will make it unique as its peers...

Digital Automotive – Baby steps.

BMW takes another baby step. Not only is Car Play now free but BMW will now also add Android Auto to its vehicles from 2020 in a move that clearly...

Tesla – Subscription blues

Tesla does not need to acquire users. While Tesla might just get away with charging for data and services, I think that the rest of the industry will have to...

Ford – Wild horses

Mustang Mach-E is a ray of hope. Ford may be mistaken about what electric and autonomous vehicles will do to demand for its products (see here), but the Mustang Mach-E...

Sony AI – 2 from 3

2 of Sony’s AI proposals make sense. While Sony appears to be late to the game in AI, it has been working on this for quite some time which has...