Archive For

February 2020

SoftBank – Pressure cooker

Softbank must be under real pressure. In the current environment, the last thing one should do is bring a highly valued, loss-making, sharing economy-based company...

Autonomous Autos 2019 – All change

The field tightens a long way away from commercial offerings. Disengagement data from the California DMV (see here) shows that Waymo has lost its lead...

Toyota – Prancing horse.

Toyota comes to its senses (sort of). After its inexplicable investment in Uber’s self-driving unit (see here) at a valuation of $7.25bn and its madcap...

Foldable devices – Nasty Origami pt. VI.

Screen durability and price still hold back this enticing segment. Despite the cancellation of MWC, Huawei is going ahead with its device launches as planned...

Ford – Ship and remember.

Ford is starting to understand digital. I may have issues with Ford’s view on vehicle demand (see here) but there are signs that Ford is...

Google Stadia – Humble pie.

Google should issue refunds. Gaming on mobile phones remains a huge opportunity because outside of China, there is no dominant player but the way that...

Tesla / Mobileye – Double vision

Robotaxis will not be appearing anytime soon. McAfee has exposed a corner case that triggered dangerous behaviour by a Tesla vehicle in another example of...

Blue Apron – No bottom

Blue Apron shares are probably going to zero. Another set of awful results has forced the board of Blue Apron to seek “strategic alternatives” which...

COVID-19 – No-one knows

Apple does not know how badly it will miss FQ2 20. The first signs of the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the world economy...

Apple 5G – Antenna issues

mmWave antenna design is still a big issue. As I have long suspected, one of the most challenging issues for 5G is the design of...