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A new study shows that while more Americans use Android devices than iPhones, the majority of mobile commerce transactions are taking place on Apple’s iOS
“there’s a lot more to the iPhone switching to a 64-bit processor than hype.”
It begins the final disruption in the mobile/desktop environment. Everything will be mobile and everything you do will be geo-tagged.
What if profits aren’t part of the plan at Motorola? What if Google’s plan for smartphones isn’t to directly make money for itself but, instead, an attempt to destroy money for other companies by making the phone a commodity device?
Google doesn’t need to make money on hardware, they just need to make access to the internet as cheap as possible. Their revenues are built on information access, not hardware.
Security researchers at Stanford have discovered methods of “fingerprinting” mobile devices by measuring tiny errors in the sensors, including the accelerometer and microphone. The degree of error is unique to each phone because, despite streamlined industrial processes, no two devices roll off the assembly line functioning in the exact same way.
The variations can be used to create IDs for phones that advertisers, and perhaps law enforcement, could exploit to track the devices.
Your best customers provide all the wrong information when the market is being disrupted. Ignoring them is impossible while complying is a strategic mistake.
Theirs was “the Mac in a phone” idea. The reason it worked was that it was not a phone. The reason it worked is because it was the hardest disruption to spot: … it was a computing product and not a telecommunications product.
This is the subject of a much larger discussion, but I believe that the 64-bit 5S is the next stage in Apple’s progression as a mobile computing company, not a mobile phone company.
Next time you tune in to a Bob Marley music channel on Pandora Media, the Internet radio service will use that information to build a profile of voters likely to lean toward Democrats, opening a new front for political advertisers.
The accident on Jan. 28, 1986 — just 73 seconds into flight — killed all seven on board, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.
The Challenger disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of central Florida, after booster engine failed. People all over the country watched the disaster live because the shuttle was carrying Christa McAuliffe, who would have been the first teacher in space.
Go Flight.
In October 2012, ComScore’s separate data, collected from its statistically robust panel of owners, shows that there were 8.57m iPhone owners in the UK - which would mean that 70.8% of owners used the maps app, which would be Google’s, at some point….
But by September 2013, total use of Google Maps had dropped to 1.83m UK iPhone users even though the total ownership had grown to 10.35m. Apple Maps users, meanwhile, totalled 6.23m, or 60.2% of all users.
Ouch.
ON JUNE 16th something very peculiar happened in Germany’s electricity market. The wholesale price of electricity fell to minus €100 per megawatt hour (MWh)….
Classic disruption of markets by subsidized innovators. If Europe can stabilize the base power load needs, it may actually work. But the write-down of capital in the utility sector will be large.