Reply to this post Long glitz was typically short user experience. Samsung led the pack for glitzy press conferences and superb hardware but it was the minnows such as Bang and Olufsen that showed signs of the skills that really matter. RFM spent Thursday touring the IFA 2016 press conferences in Berlin and found that...
Reply to this post Sonos will become just like Android handset makers. Sonos has announced that it will support Spotify Connect and Amazon Echo in a climb down which sets Sonos on a path to becoming just another speaker company. Sonos makes great speakers which have proven to be very popular with audio buffs which...
Reply to this post Google is inching closer and closer to taking Android proprietary. It looks very much as if Google’s Nexus devices this year will show the first signs of a badly needed move to take Android from open source and make it proprietary like iOS and Windows. Google typically updates its Nexus line...
Reply to this post Content regulation that can only spectacularly backfire. The EU’s latest proposal to allow media outlets to charge search engines to index their content is a frightening sign of how the EU has the potential to damage the Internet experience for all EU users. The idea is to change EU copyright law...
Reply to this post The inevitable integration of WhatsApp has begun. WhatsApp has updated its terms and conditions and will begin sharing some of the data that it generates with Facebook in what looks the beginning of WhatsApp starting to pay its way. In a carefully worded blog post, WhatsApp uses the fact that it...
Reply to this post This reinvention makes more sense Following on from the mess of its first launch in 2013 (see here), Leap Motion has now shifted its focus from PCs to Virtual Reality (VR) which is a use case that makes far more sense. The original idea was to use the Leap Motion controller...
Reply to this post The time to make money has arrived. In the last few weeks Uber’s position in the transportation industry has crystallised meaningfully, meaning that the time for it to make money is here. One large scale loss (China (see here)) is complimented by its dominance in almost the entirety of the developed...
Reply to this post Tencent and Activision can breathe a sigh of relief. Pokemon Go is already showing all the hallmarks of being a craze rather than a revolution as the appeal of the game is already beginning to pall despite only being 6 weeks old. Data from Apptopia shows that daily active users peaked...
Reply to this post Software asset worth buying from a dying Cyanogen. Although, Cyanogen appears to be on its last legs, I think that the software asset that it has developed remains the best alternative to Google Android that is available. The latest twist in the sorry tale of Cyanogen is the claim that management...
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.
Samsung – Limited fallout.
Reply to this post A fast and efficient recall results in no lasting harm. Samsung has taken the prudent decision to recall the Galaxy Note 7 following a series of fires almost certainly caused by manufacturing faults with the battery. RFM research indicates that this will affect approximately 2.5m devices which I estimate cost Samsung...