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Digital Ecosystems – Privacy as a product

Subscription is unlikely to do very much for anyone. In response to slower growth and Apple’s depredations upon data collection, the digital ecosystems are experimenting with subscriptions, but RFM research...

Artificial Intelligence – Arms race of stupid pt. II

Sydney behaves like a sociopath and will make a horrible business. Underneath the hype is a growing thread of incidents that point to a singular weakness in AI that no...

Tech in 2023 – Tale of 3 cities.

Three segments. Three stories. Shopify and Cisco reported wildly differing results which combined with economic stimulus sets up 3 divergent themes for the technology sector in 2023. Shopify reported Q4...

BharOS – The Bollysystem 3.0

A schizophrenic OS that no one will want to use The new Indian OS for smartphones doesn’t really know what it wants to be, but I think it will appeal...

Microsoft Metaverse – End of life

Microsoft goes back to square one. Microsoft has shut down its enterprise Metaverse strategy in a move that can only mean that what it had was going nowhere and that...

Uber vs. Lyft Q4 2022 – Chalk and cheese

The inevitable trend begins to emerge. Lyft reported weak results and guided badly in strong contrast to Uber which is a sign that Uber’s superior size and network effect are...

Google AI event – Headless chicken

Google trips over its own feet as a result of its panic. Google is in such a blind panic that it is rushing to market with products and events that...

Arm FQ3 FY22 – More questions than answers

STOP PRESS Updates below with more details on adjusted EBITDA vs. Pre-tax profit. Buried on page 24 of the earnings statement from SoftBank are details of the amortisation of intangibles...

Artificial Intelligence – Arms race of stupid

Look for the picks and shovels of this latest bubble. Google is rushing to market with a competitor for ChatGPT triggering an arms race which will end with huge losses...

Apple, Amazon, Alphabet – A is for awful

Bad numbers for expensive stocks   Apple, Amazon and Alphabet all reported disappointing results and promptly gave up the gain they enjoyed yesterday thanks to the Fed’s more dovish tone...