Reply to this post Amazon goes better, smaller cheaper. Amazon has raised the bar in the digital assistants battle right before Google’s hardware event on 4th October with an update to the Amazon Echo home speaker and a big upgrade to the user experience. Amazon has launched two new speakers to replace the Amazon Echo,...
Reply to this post Even Oculus doesn’t believe the hype. Oculus has sent the surest signal yet that all is not well with virtual reality (VR) in a move that can only be interpreted as an admission that VR is far from being able to live up to the expectations that have been set for...
Reply to this post Amazon goes for the jugular. Amazon is not content just to let its rivals gift it the Indian market through their own bad decisions but is going for the jugular by opening up a second front in bricks and mortar retail. Amazon is buying a 5% stake in Shoppers Stop for...
Reply to this post No love for minority investors. Facebook has withdrawn plans to issue a new distribution of shares that would have further worsened its corporate governance in a move that I think was purely motivated by self interest Facebook was planning a new distribution of shares that would have allowed the voting rights...
Reply to this post Another plan that failed. With the reorganisation of its hardware division, Snap Inc. is admitting that it made a wrong turn with its spectacles which despite being cool, no one bought. Steve Horowitz will now become president of technology and report to the chief strategy officer rather than the CEO in...
Reply to this post Fourth time unlikely to be the charm. Google has announced a partnership with HTC that sees some key engineering talent join Google but it remains a complete mystery to me as to what Google is paying money for. This will represent the fourth major hardware related transaction that started with Motorola...
Reply to this post Humanity saved by Gordon Moore. There is considerable disagreement over the dangers presented to the human race by AI, but I think that it will be the laws of physics that prevent dystopian predictions from coming true. At the Tech Crunch conference, Google’s head of AI was quick to dismiss Elon...
Reply to this post Amazon increases its aggressive land grab. Not content to sit on 70% market share, Amazon is aggressively compensating for the lack of Alexa on smartphones by effectively giving the devices away and pushing e-commerce as hard as it can. A land grab strategy makes complete sense because the more Amazon can...
Reply to this post Tencent dominates but still has much more to do. Tencent already dominates Digital Life in China and now it is increasingly turning its attention to the opportunity overseas. This makes sense as China is starting to show signs of maturity meaning that the recent breakneck pace of growth will inevitably slow...
Richard is founder, owner of research company, Radio Free Mobile. He has 16 years of experience working in sell side equity research. During his 11 year tenure at Nomura Securities, he focused on the equity coverage of the Global Technology sector.
iPhone X – One trick pony
Reply to this post Face ID will make or break this device. I have long believed that this year’s iPhone offerings will not trigger a super cycle of replacement but with a lukewarm reception for the iPhone 8 is likely to mean that it is up to the iPhone X to drive Apple’s bottom line...