Today Microsoft announced Office 365 Home Premium, a cloud based office suite, which includes office applications for up to 5 devices including PCs, tablets, and Macs; and also includes extra SkyDrive storage and Skype calling. This is a frontal attack at the Google docs, drive and voice package that Google is trying to push into schools, small [...]
Apple is working on a less expensive iPhone for non-US markets, reports the Wall Street Journal. In my opinion this is a very difficult decision for Tim Cook and Apple. If one were to review this decision from Game Theory point of view, the decision is actually an easy one. Lets consider the scenario in [...]
With Microsoft confirming the shipping date for Surface RT, technology journalists started predicting the price of the device and the possible threat to iPad empire. For example, bloggers at computerworld have some thought-provoking discussions about the pricing strategies based on the manufacturing cost and on ways to neutralize the iPad. But in my opinion there [...]
Tristan Louis wrote interesting article illustrating the value of Nokia to Apple. Though I agree and understand the value of patents to Apple, the author misses a couple of other aspects of the acquisition. As one of the commentator Mr. MauritzNordlund has already pointed out that the acquisition will suffer from the overhead of excessive labor restructuring. Not [...]
From the last few days the whole Apple world is shaken by the maps controversy. But one can rationalize Apple’s move by Game Theory. If Apple were to keep Google Maps, then Google has no need to rush and create the Turn by Turn app version of the Google Maps for iOS 6. Apple [...]
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