Reply to this post Success in AR will be supported by three factors. Virtual reality (VR) is at last starting to make an impact on the general consciousness but I think that it is augmented reality (AR) that has the best chance of really taking off. VR creates an entirely artificial world while AR superimposes...
Reply to this post Tidal at risk of being swamped by a wave of bad press. Tidal is a music streaming offering backed by Jay Z and other artists that launched with much fanfare at the end of March but it looks like the offering is already in serious trouble. Following a rocky launch where...
Reply to this post Makers of medical equipment need not fear yet. As Apple is tweaking how the Apple Watch monitors the user’s heart rate, it becomes abundantly clear that health wearables are far from being able to challenge the medical devices industry. Most wearables that track heart rate do it by measuring the absorption...
Reply to this post Without distribution Google’s innovations have negative value. Google launched a whole raft of new innovations at its 2015 I/O developer conference but omitted to address the elephant in the room. I am referring to Google’s inability to control the distribution of its Android software. This problem is so severe that in...
Reply to this post Apple is not about to start making cars. Apple has confirmed that it is interested in the automotive sector but it is an enormous leap of faith to assume that it will start making cars. At the Re/code conference, Apple SVP operations Jeff Williams referred to the car as the ultimate...
Reply to this post Snapchat very unlikely to escape the bubble bursting. If Evan Spiegel really thinks that the tech market is currently a bubble then there is hope. It would imply that are plans already in place for when the torrent of easy money dries up which are certain to include monetisation and rapidly...
Reply to this post Blackberry’s hardware days are numbered. In a week where all of Blackberry’s dirty laundry is laid bare in a new book, Blackberry is also moving to again reduce headcount in its handset business. Blackberry has attempted to play to its strengths by narrowing its hardware focus to financial institutions and governments...
Reply to this post Ignite initiative has far to go before it catches fire. Mozilla has done a complete about face in ditching its cheap smartphone strategy and deciding instead to focus on an experience that users might actually want. Ex-Mozilla CMO Chris Beard has been running the show since July 2014 and last week...
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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 – Physical razzmatazz
Reply to this post Samsung is rapidly becoming a component company again. Demand for the Galaxy s6 is reasonable but unfortunately it does not appear to be nearly good enough to return Samsung to profit growth. In January 2014, Samsung gave up all of its ambitions to compete in the ecosystem (see here) and instead...