On Friday I wrote about how I see the future for HTML5, native apps and Adroid vs OS. The post stimulated a fair bit of debate which led me to check out how the operating system between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android is playing out in the market place. Looking at the latest data [...]
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Checking the news this morning over my breakfast I read a post from Fred Wilson about the fantastic HTML5 apps from Amazon/Kindle and Etsy that he saw last week and an article on Techcrunch about Google’s Native Client for Chrome and immediately got to thinking about writing a post about ‘this being a good [...] Comscore mobile data published on Techcrunch this morning ostensibly shows that one third of US phone subs have a smartphone (73m out of 234m), but when you look at the operating system I would argue that one sixth is a better estimate. I say that because Android and iOS give their users a [...] In a day when the world is awash with talk of bubbles after Groupon and Pandora filed for their IPOs I thought it would be interesting to take step back and look at the performance of a handful of the best tech companies created since the dawn of the internet. The growth of [...] Over the weekend I read Bill Gurley’s post from last week titled The Freight Train That is Android, courtesy of a pointer on AVC. It is a brilliant post that made sense of Google’s strategy for me in a new way. Previously it had seemed to me that Google’s strategy was largely designed [...] A couple of weeks back I wrote that Google was getting its mojo back on the back of a couple of exciting product announcements they made in February. This has been another good week for the same reason: In-app billing is (finally) coming to Android – this is huge, the health of [...] There was a post on Techcrunch over the weekend titled The walled garden has won. Regular readers will know I’m a big proponent of open systems and hence I read this piece with interest. Regrettably I think the title is accurate, although I don’t think the news is all bad. Let me explain. [...] In private conversations recently I’ve found myself being quite critical of Google’s track record in innovation. I’ve been saying that their search product is deteriorating and that outside of search the only business line they’ve really got working well is Android, and amazing though the success is even that has seen significant compromise as [...] As you probably saw last week Apple announced new subscription billing rules that are punitive to their developer and publisher partners. I wrote about them last Thursday arguing that given the rise of Android Apple should be trying to make itself more attractive to partners, not less. On Friday Jon Irwin, president of the [...] On Tuesday I wrote about how Android is continuing to gain momentum, but that it still lags Apple in terms of the health of its ecosystem. Also on Tuesday Apple announced a tightening of the rules around purchases via the apps that run on their platform which are designed to increase Apple’s share of [...] |
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