Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
Ajit wrote a good post on Open Gardens yesterday analysing how the mobile phone industry is coming to resemble the PC industry. His thesis; open source software (e.g. Android) is stimulating the fragmentation of the handset market. Currently 84% of the mobile market is in the hands of five vendors, whereas by contrast 40% of [...]
As soon as I read the title of Techcrunch’s Microsoft About to Open Surface For Developers in Search For Killer App I thought, uh-oh, that doesn’t bode well for them. They have been publicly working on Surface for over a year now and this announcement simply tells me they haven’t found a good application themselves. [...]
Earlier this month I was amazed when Dotson, CEO of T-Mobile came out and said that mobile app developers needed “stewardship and control” from operators to produce the best results for customers.
Now today I read on mocoNews that developers who don’t wish to charge for their apps will be able to make them available on [...]
Back in August I wrote about the Apple App Store and the coming T-Mobile open app platform saying that for all Apple’s history of closedness it is just possible they will end up unleashing a wave of competition in the mobile industry based on open-ness.
The early signs are that thesis is playing out, but that [...]
Venturebeat reported yesterday on a wireless panel at CTIA. Now that data has increased to 20% of wireless revenue operators have finally woken up to how important it is, but, and this is a big but, it seems they still don’t seem to understand that to really stimulate usage they have to let people [...]
From Mobhappy:
First it was digital cameras, then watches, then as Russell predicted in April, GPS-enabled mobile handsets will this year outsell standalone GPS units.
GPS Phones Surpass Standalone Devices:
More GPS-enabled handsets will ship this year than standalone navigation devices, IMS Research said today.
Further, I am hearing increasing talk of low power always-on GPS chips which will [...]
In a good sign for the mobile eco-system T-Mobile is planning to open an app platform for all their phones. This is good news because mobile apps have historically been a graveyard for entrepreneurs and investors and like the Apple App Store the T-Mobile open app platform takes out one of the big breaks [...]
There is some interesting data on Mobhappy about the take-up of the mobile web here in the UK. As ever I will comment on a couple of highlights, and you should read the full post (or even the Ofcom survey it reports on) for the details.
First off - SMS revenues still dwarf data revenues [...]
Amongst all the doom and gloom I’ve felt like slitting my wrists at points over the last couple of weeks so it was good to hear the positive sentiment coming from Google, IBM and Nokia yesterday.
Google’s earnings fell short of expectations, but that was due to increased expenses and reduced investment income and is therefore [...]
The furore surrounding the iPhone 3G launch and the iPhone App Store is astounding - check out this screen grab from Techmeme:
I’m thinking again about mobile socnets and mobile search at the moment and it looks like Apple has succeeded in giving the sector another big boost.
