Posts tagged with:smartphone

Flipping through this presentation about the mobile world, I saw again the enormous Samsung Mobile budget. They are living proof is not enough to have the greatest smartphone, you got to have a big marketing budget. The average Joe sees the Galaxy S4 in Ray Donovan’s hands and that is what he buys. He doesn’t […]

First, two quotes from an article by Kirk Tuck: The vast majority of buyers of all cameras, DSLR’s, mirror less, high end compacts, etc. were hobbyists  and amateur photographers who, after years of pursuing some sort of competence in the craft have come to the conclusion that the whole art genre of photography is somewhat […]

The smartphone update cycle is at a stop. Innovation has stopped and people do not hurry to buy the new phone, as the changes from year to year are not spectacular enough. So other than all eyes on China and other emerging markets, other ideas are nowhere to be found. NFC is sort-of dead, mobile […]

I feel sorry for Microsoft sometimes. Ok, not really. They used to be this big big bully that scared everyone and now is this big bully that plays alone on a playground, while all the other people moved to another one. I like how their closed ecosystem they loved so much 10 years ago is […]

Steve Ballmer announced his retirement. People cheered. Stocks grew by 8%. Microsoft’s business model was simple so far: computer processors are getting speedier, let’s make Windows use more resources so people would buy new computers, new Windows and Office licenses. Pretty good plan. The love chain broke in 2008, because of Vista and the economic […]

ArsT Technica has a long article about how YouTube stumbles at peak hour and it’s all the cable companies’ fault. Somehow true, the video consumption has grown in the past years and cable companies have a hard time providing the pipe necessary for that. This happens also with telecom companies and smartphone usage. But the […]

Apple’s philosophy has always been to be consumer-centric. It wants to make easy-to-use, broadly-accessible products. But on some level, it’s failing consumers when only 18% of the global smartphone population has an iPhone. (source) BMW makes the best cars in the world. Does not have the same market share as Ford or Toyota. Is BMW […]

Now that the megapixel race is sort of passé, DSLR and smartphone makers have found new grounds to battle: low light. The one with the best picture in low light wins! Nikon launched D3200 with 24 useless megapixels. Samsung and Sony have 13 megapixel cameras on their smartphone. The 50 megapixel DSLR is near. All […]

There are three important things to note in the past few days. Erich Schmidt from Google saying that by 2020 every human on the planet will be online. Sure, this is not going to happen, and people cited lack of water or electricity, but he is on to something: it is easier to be online […]

The 30s generation had the Great Depression. The 40s had the Second World War. The 50s had to rebuild. The 60s had Freedom and War. The 70s had Rock and Roll. The 80s had Disco and cocaine. The 90s and the 2000s had nothing. And grunge. We have smartphones.