Samsung Q4 24 & Apple FQ1 25– 2 AI Problems
No growth and no confidence. Apple FQ1 25 – Still no growth. Apple reported good results despite weakness in China but credited Apple Intelligence for...
The Metaverse – Mean Reversion
Meta has returned to seeding the market. Meta’s Reality Labs has had a good 2024 from a sales perspective but this is because Meta has...
Artificial Intelligence – Desperately Seeking Independence
DeepSeek’s techniques need to be independently verified. It is not DeepSeek R1’s performance that is surprising, but how cheaply the company was able to train...
Automotive Ecosystem – CarPlay Stagnates
CarPlay 2.0 continues to struggle. The next version of CarPlay is certainly not the apple of carmakers’ eyes as the promised launches have failed to...
Samsung & Google – Bixby, The Plumber
Samsung and Google are beginning to see the light. Samsung produced one of the dullest hardware updates with the s25, but the real action was...
Stargate & AI – Magic Money Tree pt. III
A project for which hardly anyone has the money. Stargate is an ambitious project to build up to $500bn of AI Cloud capacity but does...
Artificial Intelligence – DeepSeek, The Honeymoon Spoiler
DeepSeek’s timing undermines its credibility. DeepSeek’s latest model is surprising the AI industry, but the timing of the model’s release damages its credibility as, at...
Nvidia vs Huawei – No Contest
Huawei has no chance but will gain domestic share anyway When it comes to performance, Huawei’s chips have no chance of beating Nvidia in a...
Mercedes & Google – A Better Match
Right idea but execution will be everything Mercedes will be using Google’s Gemini LLM to power its in-vehicle digital assistant in the 2026 CLA in...
About Me
Richard is founder, owner of research company, Radio Free Mobile. He has 16 years of experience working in sell side equity research. During his 11 year tenure at Nomura Securities, he focused on the equity coverage of the Global Technology sector.
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