Satellites
Phoneflix has completely changed my interactions with Netflix. Now, wherever I am I can open it on my iPhone and manage my Netflix queue. It’s as random as while watching television or at the car wash or even sitting is a movie theatre watching previews.
TweetDeck (and Thwirl before it) accelerated my twitter usage. Yammer’s desktop [...]
Nokia to Launch Traffic Network
I’ll be curious to see how this is implemented. Being able to syndicate the structural traffic network content (e.g. road sensors) to mobile phones makes a lot of sense but the user generated content piece is more suspect. First of all there is the input mechanism given that SMS is illegal while driving (and for [...]
RIM Promises New Mac Tools, It’s About Frickin Time
It’s been on their radar since 2004 and they won’t have anything until next year? 5 frickin years to enable Mac users with full native support on Mac OSX. I’d buy another Blackberry today were it not for the crappy desktop manager that is PocketMac.
Let’s call this what it is, RIM was perfectly content to [...]
Car Internet
I can see something like this being a big draw for families, just like in vehicle entertainment systems (DVDs and games) have proven to be. However, for $600 plus another $30 a month it is pretty spendy, for a computer based EVDO card you would pay less than $100 plus $60 a month for Verizon’s [...]
Bust a Deal, Face the Wheel
Sprint lost a pretty significant case involving the early termination fees (ETFs) here in California. A contract is a contract and I’m not inclined to cheer the court action nullifying a valid contract between two parties, however it’s also clear that cell phone companies have profitably abused ETFs (e.g. attaching an ETF to a renewal [...]
Clearwire promises a fully-open, “third pipe” WiMAX network
I remain a fan of WiMax despite it never quite achieving the promise held out in the early phases. While fully expecting to be a Clearwire customer by now, if it takes a few more years to ramp this to the mass market, I won’t complain.
A lengthy document filed this week with the [...]
Mobile Web Dead?
Former Yahoo! Mobile evangelist turned startup entrepreneur Russell Beattie announced today that he’s calling it quits for his company Mowser because the market for mobile browsing is taking a fast turn for the worse. “The mobile traffic just isn’t there,” Beattie says, “It’s not there now, and it won’t be.”
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Apple’s 45 Million iPhones in 2008
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster took a lot of heat back in June 2007 when he predicted, three weeks before Apple even began selling the iPhone, that the company would be shipping them at the rate of 45 million a year by 2009.[From FORTUNE: Apple 2.0 Analyst: How Apple sells 45 million iPhones [...]
Predicted Shift to SmartPhones
One problem I have with this survey is the small sample size and the apparent disconnect between their projections and what handset manufacturers are capable of delivering. There are over 2 billion handsets sold every year, which means a sample size of 4,182 is hardly a proxy for the broader market.
Plus, despite the projections year [...]
Myopia
Let’s say Apple ships 7 million iPhones for the full year and that is 20% of the total market… iSuppli is forecasting that global handset shipments will be 1.3 billion units for 2008, so as a component of the overall market smartphones are pretty damn small.
It clearly shows a steady increase in iPhone [...]
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