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Adobe is one of the last surviving desktop software companies. So is Microsoft. Consolidation happens when an industry matures and excess capacity and excess overhead can be squeezed out of the value chain, giving a…
How do you think about the iPhone 3GS after the iPhone 4 is out? I have a hypothesis that it’s not what it seems. The standard logic is that the 3GS (which I will call the n-1 where n is the current phone version) is a…
“In all areas of software development, mobile computing is seen as the number-one hottest IT opportunity next year,” said Jim Corgel, an IBM general manager of independent software vendors and developer relations who was…
The contact, says [Ticonderoga’s] White, shipped more than 6 million parts to Apple during the third quarter of the year and expects to ship 7 million more in the fourth quarter. Since Apple uses one unit of this…
I don’t write product reviews and I don’t pass judgement on individual products but I do own and test various products. For example I have the Android powered Samsung Galaxy 5 (GT-I5500) and the experience is, in my…
Thanks to a reader’s suggestion, I took another look at the profit and market share data from the mobile phone market overview posted last quarter. This time to compare the vendors on two dimensions at the same time. I…
I activated IntenseDebate comments. This allows many features (see below) including the editing of comments. There might be some issues or bugs that will be discovered only once the system is in use so let me know what…
White contends iPad could be “one of the most coveted gifts” this holiday season; he sees the company selling 7.1 million units in the September 2010 fiscal year, with 19.9 million in 2011, and 25.8 million in 2012. The…
As of two weeks ago, AT&T was to be the launch partner for Windows Phone. AT&T had been expected to unveil phones from HTC, Samsung and LG, according The Wall Street Journal. Windows Phone Thoughts: AT&T Set to Release…
Chris Whitmore predicted 2.0 million iPads would be sold in 2010 soon after the product launched. (asymco | Analysts predict iPad sales) More recently, Chris Whitmore writes for Deutsche Bank: “We believe Apple’s lead in…