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  1. HTC: Hard to Compete

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    HTC is the world’s fourth largest smartphone company. It ships 80% of all Windows Mobile and probably a similar proportion of Android devices. Like Microsoft in 2003, Google turned to HTC for its first smartphone, the G1…

  2. Shazam!

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    Disney owns Marvel Comics and Jobs owns Disney. You do the math. Fortune writes more…

  3. Blackberries are not Smartphones

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    It’s time to re-evaluate the categorization of smartphones. The term has always been problematic. It loosely means a phone that runs an advanced operating system and has third party SDKs. There is no industry standard…

  4. Seeing What’s Next

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    Steven Frank: A lot of thoughtful people, many of whom are bloggers, look at this history and say, “Look at this march of progress! Surely the desktop + windows + mouse interface can’t be the end of the road? What’s…

  5. Future Shock

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    Fraser Speirs gets it: What you’re seeing in the industry’s reaction to the iPad is nothing less than future shock. Very good reading. Fraser Speirs – Blog – Future Shock

  6. That River in Egypt

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    Mini-MSFT: Windows Mobile 7: we so dropped the ball in our early phone OS presence that now it seems like it’s a losing battle to have a dog in this fight. But WinMo7 is out there. To me, I can imagine this becoming like…

  7. iPad Redux

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    “In many ways this defines our vision, our sense of what’s next.” – Jonathan Ive They just signed the death certificate of the PC.

  8. Two Million Droids

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    During the reported quarter, Motorola shipped 12 million mobile phones, commanding a global market share of just 3.7%. However, the newly launched two Android 3G smartphones CLIQ and DROID witnessed impressive results.…