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The EcoV
In this episode we move beyond just talking about our pet theories of automotive disruption and interview someone who is doing something about it. Asymcar 8: The EcoV | Asymcar. If you want to know more about Toyota’s…
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Research
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The US Auto Industry Summarized
As automobiles become smartphone accessories, they become an interesting industry to study. Here is a recent (since 1961) history of the US market.
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How many Americans will be using an iPhone when the US smartphone market saturates?
As previously noted, the US smartphone market has followed an almost perfectly logistic growth. The measured data (via comScore, in green below) follows a predictive logistic function (thin blue whose formula is…
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Updated US Smartphone Saturation Forecast
The latest comScore US smartphone survey showing three months’ ending October data has been released and there were no surprises. Smartphone penetration grew to 62.5% representing 149.2 million users. I made a slight…
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Apple Success All About Customer Loyalty: Dediu: Video – Bloomberg
My brief appearance on Bloomberg Surveillance last week: Apple Success All About Customer Loyalty: Dediu: Video – Bloomberg.
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The Numbers Behind the Apple vs. Samsung Rivalry: Video – Bloomberg
My appearance on Bloomberg West using an iPad to illustrate what it takes to make an iPad. The Numbers Behind the Apple vs. Samsung Rivalry: Video – Bloomberg.
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When will the migration from PCs be complete?
IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark (report is here) has published, for the fourth year in a row, US online shopping traffic data with a split between mobile and fixed online traffic. It reveals a pattern of consumer…
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When will there be one billion iOS devices in use?
iOS unit sales crossed over 700 million units last month. That is a significant milestone but the total number of units in use is likely to be lower. My estimate based on device replacement assumptions is that about 500…
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Dark Matter
Benedict Evans explains well the problem with measuring Android tablets. There are no reliable data collected because many of the devices are invisible through the regular, measurable channels: The only measured…
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A way to measure one’s life
In the post Seeing What’s Next, I showed how the rate of change of adoption of technology varies with time and asked what might be experienced by present and future generations. It turns out that knowing how what…