Reply to this post Facebook is making the right moves to become an ecosystem. Facebook’s intentions to become a fully-fledged ecosystem have come into sharper relief with the launch of its own personal digital assistant, Facebook M. Facebook M will appear inside Messenger as a contact that is permanently on line and is there to...
Reply to this post Amazon App store and Silk could have great value for those in need. Signals coming from Silicon Valley and Seattle indicate that the brutal device market may have claimed yet another victim. For the first time in its 11 year history, Lab 126 (Amazon’s hardware division) appears to shedding engineers. The...
Reply to this post The car makers can still win the battle for the digital car. The seasonal news vacuum has left space for speculation as to whether Apple will manufacture a car to surface once again. This time it has been driven by the news that a senior engineer from Tesla has jumped ship...
Reply to this post Google out front but hampered with its issues. Google and Microsoft are lining up with Apple for the battle of the digital personal assistants but even in its current predicament, Google has a massive advantage. Microsoft has just launched a beta version of its assistant, Cortana, for Android while Google is...
Reply to this post Fight over taxis shows how the Chinese ecosystem war will be fought. Since the merger of Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache, (Didi Kuaidi) the Chinese online taxi hailing market has been a two horse race. Furthermore, the degree to which these services are already being used is a strong indication of...
Reply to this post MIUI 7 launch demonstrates limitations outside of China. Xiaomi has launched the next version of its user experience MIUI but the lack of discussion around its ecosystem reinforces the view that it has very little outside of China. New Delhi was the location of the launch which meant that all of...
Reply to this post More experimentation produces no improvement. Yet another experiment that looks almost certain to fail, should begin to hammer home the reality that BlackBerry has no future in hardware. This time BlackBerry has taken a regular Android device and fitted it with a slide out keyboard which is expected to launch to...
Reply to this post A modular device is far harder than it sounds. Google is continuing to struggle with Project Ara underlining the fact that making a mobile device that is modular is much more difficult than one would think. Google was planning on launching its modular device in Puerto Rico this year but that...
Reply to this post There’s nothing wrong with being a component company. The latest flagship devices continue to show very clearly where Samsung’s future lies and it is not in being a highflying phone maker. Samsung has launched two new devices, Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy 6 edge+. The Note 5 is the next...
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.
Netflix – Rollercoaster
Reply to this post Netflix will become even higher risk in the future. Netflix’s failure to renew its streaming deal with Epix (Lionsgate and MGM) is a clear sign that Netflix intends to move up the value chain to become a purveyor of exclusive content. This is a far riskier proposition than being a distributor...