The technology space has gone through multiple “disruptive” technologies but the pattern was always the same. An established technology leader advantage gets wiped out by a new technology and the leader struggles to keep its original business. We seen this pattern play out in the mobile world ( Apple vs Nokia, RIM), Search world ( [...]
Apple announced that it has reached a global settlement with the phone maker HTC that includes a dismissal of current lawsuits and a ten-year license agreement that covers both current and future patents. Sounds very refreshing after the Samsung episode. There could be multiple reasons for settlement. It is very likely that both Apple and [...]
In the last few days Apple, the most valuable company in the world, is going through turbulent times. From the time of maps debacle both technology journalists and financial analysts started predicting the end of Apple as we have seen in the last few years. And the recent management shakeup didn’t help much to revive [...]
From last few years the dominance of tablets is driving innovation and changing computing landscape. If ever there is an interesting “war of worlds” in the technology space apart from the smartphone wars, it is the Intel vs ARM microprocessor wars. ARM architecture based processors made “Post-PC” era possible and profitable. Over the weekend VentureBeat [...]
Samsung Electronics announced its third quarter results and profits are up by 91% fueled by its most popular Android based smartphone Galaxy S III. In a period when there were not many competitive new smartphones either Android or iOS based, Samsung benefited the most. Can Samsung sustain its lead and profits in Android world? Lets [...]
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