Reply to this post Inability to reach scale is killing the delivery start-ups. The highway of 2016 is being littered on a daily with the crashes of start-ups that have been so focused on obtaining huge network scale that they forgot the basics of economics. Almost exclusively, it is the start-ups that involve pick-ups or...
Reply to this post Money talks, robots walk. It looks like Alphabet has put its robotics venture, Boston Dynamics, up for sale because there is no immediate path to earning a return on the money invested for Alphabet. Boston Dynamics is a robotics company that specialises in robots that are autonomous as far as navigating...
Reply to this post Cyanogen refreshes the parts other ecosystems don’t reach. Although Cyanogen’s business model remains highly questionable, the evolutions it is making to the user experience show a good understanding of what will drive ecosystems in the long term. With the release of Cyanogen OS 13.0 release 1, Cyanogen’s latest innovations within the...
Reply to this post All is not well in the consumer ecosystem. HERE has severed the last link with its old owner in deciding to pull its app from Windows 10 rather than develop it again from scratch. This is a sign of the malaise that currently grips the Microsoft consumer ecosystem as users of...
Reply to this post Microsoft cleverly puts Sony in a very difficult position. Microsoft has announced that Xbox Live members will now be able to play games with members from other gaming networks such as the PC as well as other consoles. This has been coming for some time as Windows 10 devices all share...
Reply to this post Google could do a better Echo if it so desired. Amazon’s latest experiment is showing signs of success but to really hit the big time, Alexa needs to get much smarter. The Amazon Echo has been around for just over a year and the fact that Amazon has launched two companion products...
Reply to this post Now the ecosystem is showing signs of strain. Things are not getting easier for Xiaomi as results from one of its partners indicates that usage within the ecosystem is not faring as well as it would have hoped. Xunlei is a networking software company that speeds up downloads in areas of...
Reply to this post Yahoo’s changes could be the end of Flickr. The latest changes that Yahoo has made to its photo service Flickr are symptomatic of a company that does not really seem to understand the market in which it is trying to compete. Flickr is the online photo service that used to enjoy...
Reply to this post Lollipop’s growth is not good news. After 18 months of being available, Lollipop has finally become the largest version of Android with 36.1% of Google Android devices now using this version. KitKat is at 34.3% while Jelly Bean is at 22.3% while the latest version Marshmallow is struggling for relevance with...
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.
Apple – Housekeeping
Reply to this post A housekeeping event that refreshed the older end of its offering. Apple released new products and software that inched the evolution if the ecosystem forward, but there was nothing that will kill the impact of the end of the massive iPhone 6 upgrade cycle. iPhone SE This is best described as...