Virtual Reality Uncertainty: An Update
To get a refresher, read this post – I’ve basically been thinking through how large the market for Virtual Reality tech can get from first principle. Is it another game console or will it be as big as the web or mobile? So I was talking to someone I respect a lot about platforms – […]
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 […]
Android is a Pain in the Ass
<small edits for clarity> I’ve been doing a lot of mobile stuff recently and have every phone there is: #WindowsPhone, #Blackberry 10, #iPhone, #Android. These are generally all test phones without a SIM operating over wifi. For productivity and calls, I rock #WindowsPhone and a bit of #iPhone. So rewind 2 weeks and my main […]
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 […]
The strategic threat of web documents
I know I’m pretty late to the party, but I just had a transformative experience with binary formats – those things that are at the end of your documents. .doc, .xls, .pdf, etc. I sent someone a file in Word 2013 format. Ofcourse they did not have support for that (blasted Mac!). I sent it […]
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 […]
How to stop TV show piracy
Look, this is probably not a unique idea, even though I haven’t heard it articulated in this way anywhere else. More importantly I’m not even sure I should be putting out ideas that help the big 4 broadcasting corporations – I’m reasonably steamed at some of the latest things that have happened that have impeded […]
Surface Reax
Microsoft’s Surface was all the buzz last week for very good reasons. It’s a vertical move from a company that is resolutely horizontal in its strategy – the original platform company (Windows, Office). When a company undertakes this kind of strategy change, it’s a VERY BIG DEAL. There is a lot of commentary on this, […]
iPad vs. Windows 8
A lesson on the marketing advantages of vertical products Come later this year there will be a battle royal like never before. The question of what mass market computing platform will rule the next business cycle (3-5 years) will be decided, either very quickly, or very slowly (my money on slow). On one side is […]