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Apple vs. Exxon-Mobil
Tim Cook : We can put all of our products on the table you’re sitting at. Those products together sell $40 billion per year. No other company can make that claim except perhaps an oil company. We are the most focused…
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100 Million Windows Mobile Devices
by 2007. The goal was set 6 years and 3 months ago: On November 3, 2003, Microsoft announced that it intends to sell 100 million Windows Mobile devices by year 2007. This goal has been set by Steve Ballmer. Majority of…
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Microsoft and Nokia agree: Apple is hindering Innovation in Mobile market
From the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009 (one year ago): Kallasvuo used Apple and its “closed” ecosystem as an example of what could limit innovation in the mobile market in the future. He said Apple’s vertically…
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Microsoft's standardised handsets will win the day, says Gartner
Symbian will lose smartphone battle By Rob Jones at Gartner Symposium ITxpo, Cannes [07-11-2003] Microsoft’s standardised handsets will win the day, says Gartner Analyst Gartner has warned that, without a concerted…
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Windows Mobile renamed Windows Phone Classic
The mobile operating system formerly known as “Pocket PC 2000/2002, Pocket PC 2000/2002 Phone Edition, Smartphone 2002, Windows Mobile (2003/5.0) for Pocket PC, Windows Mobile (2003/SE/5.0) for Pocket PC Phone Edition,…
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Into the Mind of a Windows Mobile User
What are we to make of the new Windows Phone 7 Series? First, we have to distinguish it as a new platform. Let’s use Microsoft’s new naming conventions and call it “WP7S” as distinct from the current Windows Mobile 6.5…
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Platform Bonanza! Three new Platforms in one Day
Delivering precisely what the world needs today: Three new ambitious platforms starting with zero installed bases and no applications are going up against the following: It should be noted that Microsoft’s new Windows…
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Blackberry Users Consume One Fifth the Data of iPhone Users
As mentioned before, Blackberries should not be thought of as smartphones. Consumer Reports announced this week the results of a study it commissioned assessing the monthly data usage for customers of Apple’s iPhone and…
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Android vs. Google
When I heard about Android being positioned against the iPhone, I thought about how that decision must have been justified internally at Google. I wondered how Andy Rubin added up the benefits of his product vs. the…
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Calibrating iPhone Growth
I calibrate my growth rates on the assumption that Apple will overtake the combined share of the two money-losing handset vendors. Sony Ericsson and Motorola are the weakest competitors in terms of portfolio and…