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Big Picture
The Coming Merger of Google Chrome and Android
In August 2011, I outlined why I believed that Chrome was more important to Google than Android. At first blush, this sounds kind of crazy, but when you look at the bigger strategic picture it makes sense.
Invasion of the Low-Cost Tablets
The low-cost tablet invasion is in full swing and it will only help drive more and more people to tablets as their primary mobile computing devices.
Apple’s Reality Distortion Field Relocates to Wall Street
I’m baffled. As an industry observer and analyst who studies this industry and the companies within it, I am baffled by how Wall Street thinks about Apple.
Why Your Smartphone Will Be Your Next PC
The basic idea is that the smartphone itself is your PC and then docks into some type of shell. Various technologies have emerged that could make this vision a reality relatively soon.
From Innovation to Marketing: Understanding Technology Cycles
The market will move from innovation to mass commercialization in three- to four-year cycles rather than 10-year cycles like before, causing chaos for companies who do not understand it and make adjustments.
Has Apple Finished Disrupting Markets?
To think that Apple won’t use its experience to disrupt other markets is shortsighted. It might take time, but Apple is more than capable of continuing to innovate and drive markets in new directions
How the Tablet Came to Disrupt the PC Industry
The PC industry is observing one of the most significant times of change it has ever seen. I do not believe every company will survive this disruption, or at least continue in their current form.
Facebook Graph Search: The Emperor Needs New Digital Clothes
While I very much welcome the discovery nature of Facebook’s Graph Search, in concept, at a very personal level I think we need to approach it with concern about what it can index about us.
The Internet of Things: Hardware with a Side of Software
Two things stood out to me as major themes at CES this year.
Your Smartphone Will Become the Hub of Your Digital Lifestyle
Over the next two to three years, I believe we will see thousands of sensor-based products tied to apps on our smartphones.
Why Tablets, Hybrids and Convertibles Are Important to the PC Industry
There’s no question that the PC industry has taken a back seat to the tablet phenomenon.