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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...

Facebook & Baidu – Tough times.

Reasonable numbers but tough outlook. Facebook Facebook reported reasonable results but I still don’t think that the market has fully appreciated the difficulty that the company is going to experience...

Faraday Future – The wrong man pt. II.

Red flags everywhere The saga of Faraday Future continues with further evidence of terrible financial management which serves to underpin my view that while Jia Yueting has control, the venture...

IBM & Red Hat – Picks and shovels.

IBM can now lay a claim to the cloud. IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat needs to go well because the $34bn that IBM is paying in cash will all end...

GOOG, AMZN & SNAP – 3 Black marks

AMZN & Snap struggle. GOOG is just fine. Performance relative to expectations drove the earnings of Amazon, Google and Facebook obscuring that at least in Alphabet’s case, the results themselves...

Spotify – Campaign launch

The assault on the labels begins. Spotify has formally launched what I think is the first element of a strategy that will see the obsolescence of the record labels resulting...

Verizon – Dumb pipe

More excited about its pipe than the contents Verizon reported good Q3 18 results headlining with 510,000 smartphone post-paid net adds, 5G and 6% YoY revenue growth and playing down...

Google & Co. – Broken Valley pt. V.

Google, & Co. have their tentacles in almost everything that’s “free” RFM’ use of Google as the developed market’s benchmark for monetisation gains greater foundation as it turns out that...

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...

Facebook – Bottom of the class

Yet another AI red flag. Another small slip-up by Facebook reveals just how challenging its AI problem is and why it must continue to hire humans to do the jobs...