Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
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.” [From Is the Mobile Web [...]
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 in [...]
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 [...]
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 sales [...]
I finally bought an EVDO card for my Mac. So far it’s been a great experience, the expresscard driver software is already in Leopard so I didn’t have to load anything, basically it was as simple as taking the card out of the box, inserting it in the slot, and clicking on the “connect” menu [...]
Wow, Sony Ericsson’s announcement that they sold 100 million handsets in 2007 is impressive… that is 3 handsets every second for those of you interested in trivial math. Kind of puts Apple’s announcement yesterday about selling 4 million iPhones in perspective… even if Apple sells 15-20 million iPhones over a couple of years they will [...]
T-Mobile blocks outgoing Twitter messages, according to TechCrunch. The company’s spokesperson doesn’t dispute it and then tells customers to basically fuck off if they don’t like it. …Twitter is not an authorized third-party service provider, and therefore you are not able to utilize service from this provide any longer…. T-Mobile is not in violation of [...]
"… Casey, the iPhone user, told Consumerist that he tried several times to explain to the flight attendant that the iPhone was in "airplane mode," with all the radios disabled. But the flight attendants did not accept that explanation, and continued to insist that FAA regulations prohibit talking on cell phones when the cabin door [...]
When Starbucks introduced for-pay Wi-Fi in 2002, it seemed like a great deal (especially for business customers who could expense it). But five years later, the model appears old and stale and ready for a complete overhaul. Prediction: Starbucks will start rolling out free Wi-Fi access within one year. Doubt it. I’m not privy to [...]
Nokia acquiring Navteq is huge, I’m surprised there wasn’t more of a discussion about it. With this move Nokia is going all in with location-based services as a competitive differentiator and if my experiences are any indicator this is a good move. If you are a handset manufacturer you can’t compete on platform anymore but [...]