eMarketer released some new data yesterday with the most detailed breakdown of the mobile advertising market I’ve seen to date. eMarketer have a history of being amongst the most bullish on this market. They were the first company to predict that 2011 mobile ad spend would top $1bn in the US, and they are [...]
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I recently read Tim Wu’s The Master Switch (read my review here) the central thesis of which is that tech revolutions start with the promise of freedom to operate, light regulation, plenty of scope for new entrants and a promise of an enduring new order, but always end with regulated monopolies and oligopolies. A [...] There is a new report out from Distimo which highlights the major developments in mobile in 2011. You can download the report from their website (free and paid versions). I want to highlight two things, first, that Android apps are now grossing a reasonable amount of money. Still behind the iPhone and the iPad, [...] I’ve been saying for some time now that the fundamentals of the Android ecosystem are stronger than that of Apple’s iOS, largely because Apple doesn’t know how play nice with its ecosystem partners. I think we are now getting near to the tipping point where Android starts to claim dominant mindshare and the shift [...] My new Samsung/Google Galaxy Nexus phone arrived on Friday and so far my relationship with it has been somewhat like the one I had with my first girlfriend. To start with I couldn’t figure out how to get it to do anything, then I was all excited as I figured out how to [...] I was going through my unread saves on Instapaper today and came to this interesting chart in a Techcrunch post from earlier this month. It shows people stay watching videos much longer on tablets and mobile than they do on desktops. Maybe not surprising in theory – but look at the extent of the [...] I love using the Amazon iPhone app and this weekend I tweeted about how good the British Airways app is, but what I don’t want is to have an app on my phone for every retailer I use. That would be a navigation nightmare – already I find myself swiping left and right through [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] According to research out by Asymco Apple has just about enough cash to buy Nokia, RIM, HTC, LG, Motorola and Sony Ericsson. That is an incredible statistic and testimony to the awesome success that Apple has had with its iPod, iPhone and iPad product ranges. Regular readers will know that I am not a [...] |
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