The Amazon smartphone rumor and the Apple mini-iPad rumor show that the mobile device giants think they have to be in all the device spaces to win. Why? Because the cloud can create an ecosystem where every device can cooperate to support the user, and if you don't supply all the devices you miss out on the total value.
I can identify with 7-inch tablets but I'm still in the tin can and string phase, phone-wise! I don't like mobile phones because people keep trying to keep in touch with me on them!
Yes, Tom. That's true. Apple wouldn't leave things so easy. So Apple should be announcing an iPad mini, and the iPhone 5. :) I have great expectations on the iPhone 5 coming just in time for the 5th anniversary of iPhone. It has to mean something for Apple, I guess.
Yeah, Susan, I agree that missing Apple signals is our industry's national sport! This time, I wonder. I don't see how they can leave that space open; it makes things too easy for Amazon and Google and Microsoft.
A 7-inch iPad could be good for those who prefer smaller tablets -I particularly think the 10-inch iPad is better- but until Apple confirms it's launch I am a bit doubtful about its future existence. This comes from the past experience of having believed in a mini-iPhone which never existed.
But back to the mobile cloud world, yes, there seems to be interesting times coming soon.
Thanks, Susan! I think Nokia and other European players have had a collective problem with the whole consumerism thing. They're used to a more conservative market and just got behind the curve. They also have an executive mindset that makes it easy to resist radical moves, and sadly this is the time to be making that kind of move.
Apple's decision to field a 7-incher, if it's real, would be a strong indicator that we're going to see the mobile world transition to a mobile cloud world!
What is now happening to Nokia is in good part due to what you have said. Nokia remained a single player for a long time, instead of jumping into the mobile appliances business. Entering the smartphone too late brought bad consequences. The same with the tablet business.
On the other hand, Apple entering the 7-inch tablet business has all the corners well covered and working smoothly with iCloud.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
Subsidized handsets, rather than locked handsets, should be the focus of regulators. We're not getting good deals, not fostering innovation, and weakening our power as buyers.
50 billion household devices will be on the Internet by 2020, according to Cisco. And we're hearing foreign governments are hacking our infrastructure. Surely our refrigerators are next!
YouTube's move to a partial pay-for-view model could help relieve a dearth of good new content but it could also complicate debates in many parts of the world over payment by content providers for delivery of their material to customers.
That's what Larry Page said on Google's earnings call, referring to the conjunction of mobile and the cloud. Well, let's chart it then! We need to be thinking about an Internet where 90% of our traffic goes to 70 destinations within 40 miles of us.
Facebook's Graph Search may face some profound challenges and risks, first, because Facebook users haven't been thinking of their posts as product reviews; and second, because Facebook will now have to contend with the social-network equivalent of SEO "gaming" of results.
EU operators are considering joining up to create a pan-European network to reduce competitive overbuild and cost. This might lower costs and focus operators on higher-level, more interesting services.
Marissa Mayer at Yahoo has come out with her strategy on turning the company around: culture, company, calibration, and compensation. But Yahoo needs to have a technical approach to the mobile cloud opportunity, not a management theory lesson.
Enterprises are discovering that using social networking within the secure setting of a SaaS provider's network gives them an unusual opportunity to freely collaborate with partners, suppliers, and even competitors.
All the recent hoopla about cloud security overlooks an important point, which is that it's not strictly a cloud problem. The linkage of online services into cooperative chains creates the risk, and only biometrics and federation of providers can save us.
Microsoft's recent decision to bundle its Office software with business partner offerings indicates that cloud software may be in the news, but licensed packages are still in demand for failover.
Mozilla's Firefox OS could be a major advance in building smartphones and tablets with a more cloud-friendly and open interface, but there are still questions of performance and security that will have to be managed.
Nicole and Kim have heard the news that Google's new mobile OS, "Jelly Bean," has a voice assistant that's poised to defeat their precious Siri. It's time for another test!
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