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January 19th, 2010 |
We all know that Apple’s computers have a given sector in the luxury-class PC.
They are not the greatest in sales volumes but in terms of design and quality they are among the foremost.
A similar development, we have seen in the case of smartphones. Their iPhone is 1-2 years ahead of all competitors in terms of design and usability. They are not the most technological advanced. They sacrificed for instance parallel background processes in favor of an easy to use interface. An interface that is often better (easier to use) than the corresponding web page for the PC.
iPhone sales volumes have constantly been growing and the App store is a success:
Apple responsible for 99.4% of mobile app sales in 2009
I hope that the iPhone will be challenged by Nokia, Sony-Ericsson and the others.
Tough competition is good for not only us users but also for the companies themselves!
How about Google’s Android and Nexus One?
See my previous blog post Who will challenge Google?
Google is fighting to get into the Mobile Internet market. They fully understand that this market will grow substantially and can even be a threat to their dominance. I can almost hear them talk to me: “Take care of the Mobile Internet in order to guide them to our search”
Here is an interesting graph showing how Android snatched market shares from the iPhone during Dec 2009. This was before the Nexus One launch and I am eagerly waiting for how the numbers will change in the future. Don’t forget Apple’s new tablet PC that soon is here. Another mobile Internet Device that can be tough for the competitors.
Posted via email from JP Fendrich’s posterous
January 9th, 2010 |
I am sitting here in Bangkok in the Baiyoke Sky Hotel at the 59th floor and writing on my book. (If you ever been in Bangkok there is a big chance that you have been having a dinner at the 78th floor where one of the restaurants are)
Looking out through the window gives another perspective [...]
December 25th, 2009 |
I have used Voddler beta for a few weeks now and there are many things still missing before it is ready for a wider public.For you who are not familiar with Voddler, it is a site for streaming movies. Most of them for free, financed by advertisement.
First of all,it is still a beta!
Let [...]
December 17th, 2009 |
Google has a good grip on most of the Internet. Right now they are using their dominant position to advance their positions further.
Most of us still associates Google with search and it is in precisley that particular area, which they earn their money but it is their interest in all the other areas that we [...]
December 15th, 2009 |
Sunday, December 13th 2009, 1:40 AM
Interesting reading about Ray Kurzweils view of the future 10 years ahead.Ten years is not a very long time. As Mr Kurzweil points out, we will still have buses, subways and cars pretty much as before. The interesting thing is HOW they are operating.
Another thing I was thinking about [...]
December 7th, 2009 |
via youtube.com
Google recently revealed the main ideas of the Google Chrome OS.
I like the concept with storing all (that means ALL) the data in the cloud. The cloud = a server somewhere in the world, hosted by Google of course.
The trend is of course that all the applications be in the cloud as well. In [...]
November 26th, 2009 |
via technology.timesonline.co.uk
Google’s mobile, planned for 2010, will of course be based on Android but more interesting is the intention to connect Google Voice with VOIP and deliver free calls. They bought Gizmo5 in order to make this possible. That means it would be possible to call other Google phones for free! What will the operators [...]
November 24th, 2009 |
Ari Fishkind for I.B.M.
David Lubensky, left, and Salim Roukos of I.B.M. are using many humans, namely the company’s 400,000 workers, to improve digital translation.
via nytimes.com
Crowd sourcing or maybe Employee-sourcing? This is an interesting way for an enterprise to develop internal tools. I wonder what other things could be done like this? Organization changes? Strategies? [...]
November 24th, 2009 |
This Friday I had the internal speech within Volvo. I talked about Internet development and we are just in the middle of an exponential progress of the Internet.
I claimed that we (humanity) are not equipped wit a natural way of understanding the exponential function. We can calculate but not easily imaging the results or consequences [...]
November 15th, 2009 |
Posterous.com is a blog service that I am starting to like. It is easy – just an email and the email will be will be published as a blog post immediately. It can also send the blog post to accounts in different Social Media such as Twitter, Blogger, Wordpress, Facebook, Flickr and so on. I [...]
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