there is 1.2 trillion $ in revenue up for the taking. here’s what we are getting for all that money: $100k / GB for SMS, bloatware, customer service from hell, lock-in, and government-enforced large scale spying. telcopalypse can’t happen soon enough.
Tag: mobile
Cheap smartphones
The high margins that Apple and Samsung get on the smartphones are going to be eaten away by companies like HTC, Huawei, and others to be named. They’re going to introduce smartphones that are almost as good and most people are not going to be able to tell the difference.
it’s getting time to stop being so attached to your jesusphone, because expensive smartphones will disappear in a few years. the Moto G is a harbinger of this trend. it is good enough for most people and < $200.
Tizen-who?
Companies from All Segments of the Mobile and Connected Device Ecosystems Become Tizen Association Partners to Collaborate on the Ongoing Development of the Tizen Project and Platform
OMG THEY GOT THE WEATHER CHANNEL. IT IS ALL OVER FOR OTHER MOBILE OS
2014-11-23: They’ve been failing for 3 years already, and are now competing with mozilla and ubuntu to see who can circle the drain faster.
Baseband exploits
we have a complete operating system with full access to the phone main memory, without any exploit mitigation, which automatically trusts every instruction it receives from the base station you’re connected to. What could possibly go wrong?
Mobile is eating the world
benedict evans may be the new mary meeker.
A high-level view of the scale of mobile, tablets, ecosystems and mobile social and the dynamics that shape them.
Dumbphone
We should stop calling it Smartphone. Most people don’t use theirs in cognition-enhancing ways. All you see are people texting each other.
Fomenting revolution
After being forced out of China and India, Chinese counterfeiters brought their product to the Middle East, where the sudden availability of information had unintended consequences for the region–and for China itself.
An intriguing possibility that you just want to be true.
MeeGo is doomed
The cash thrown at us would have been impressive…if it backed up anything convincing. Unfortunately, all the flash, glamor, booze & airbrushing in the world can’t cover up the smell of death. MeeGo is doomed, and Nokia with it if the suits holding the purse-strings aren’t careful.
hilarious article.
The Nokia N8 Sucks
but don’t worry! the next version will have new LIBRARIES and everything will be better.
Nokia Stifled Innovation
in the next year, nokia will lose crucial time while the new guy tries to clean house and runs into cultural resistance. the window of opportunity for nokia closes in 2011, afterwards they are toast.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 