Virtual Reality Uncertainty
Like every good futurist, I have been wondering about all the new hype around Virtual Reality that was basically kicked off by Oculus Rift. And of course this went into overdrive when Facebook spent a cool $2b to validate the concept. All of a sudden it seems like everyone is doing it. Which makes you […]
The death of Facebook Home
When Facebook Home launched many moons ago in the yesteryears of 2013, I quickly panned it. The value just did not stand up to strategic scrutiny. Other cheered of course, the demmed gullible tech press. I even did a follow up post thinking about what FB Home would need to be to actually become a […]
Media companies need to increase investment in technology R&D to win
Caveat – everything here (except the part about me) is low confidence – maybe 3/10. It’s based on some conversation and my voracious reading of lots of material around the cable, content and wireless industries. You should treat this more like an op-ed. The media industry (from what I can gather) has traditionally innovated in […]
What would make Facebook Home work? Apperating Systems hype take II
Doing a quick drive by on my previous blog post on Facebook Home™, heralded as the harbinger of vanguard of ‘apperating systems’ – never mind that there is likely nothing comparable from a major player (for example, Amazon is not apperating anything, it now has an OS team working on a fork of Android). Leaving […]
Apperating Systems Hype
Yeah, that Facebook Home thing? Not going to catch on. Why would anyone outsource their prime phone user experience to Facebook? Its like having a Facebook OS on your desktop or a whole web browser dedicated to Facebookery. The value doesn’t add up. If you really want to do this, learn from Windows Phone and […]
Facebook’s Integration Strategy
Summary At its core, Facebook is a 21st century iteration of a modern communications platform. Communications platforms need to perform a few simple functions – efficiently address the endpoints and provide a channel for communication of reasonable fidelity. Some improvements made over the 20th century include multi-party communications, address books and increasing fidelity (text, voice, […]