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Essential Products Inc. – An essential sale

Reply to this post           The wheels appear to have fallen off. Andy Rubin’s Essential Products Inc. is up for sale almost certainly because of a...

Samsung & Google – Engineering disease

Reply to this post           Intransigence helps Apple and the Chinese. Google and Samsung both have a bad case of engineering disease that prevents them from...

Xiaomi IPO – Foot shot pt. II.

Reply to this post           Prospectus yields valuation of $33.3bn. Being as optimistic as I dare, I can only value Xiaomi at $33.3bn, one third of...

Apple & Facebook – FQ1 Results & F8.

Reply to this post           Apple FQ1 – Privacy safe house. Apple reported good FQ2 results where the star of the show was software and services...

Xiaomi – Foot shot.

Reply to this post           Profitability limit is a shot in the foot. Voluntarily limiting one’s ability to make money for shareholders is not the wisest...

ZTE – Software not silicon

Reply to this post ZTE could lose Google. I think that ZTE’s real problem from its 7-year ban on acquiring technology from US companies, will be its inability to ship...

Android security – Swiss cheese pt. VI.

Reply to this post Yet another glaring omission. Android’s already poor security takes another leg down as it transpires that many Android handset makers are not applying security patches although...

Google – Turn of the screw.

Reply to this post           Google trying everything except what it really needs. Google is doing everything it can to put at an end its horrible...

MWC Day 1 –Going bananas.

Reply to this post           MWC retro mania continues (except 5G). Android dullness alleviated by a banana. HMD (Nokia) has once again laid bare how dull...

MWC Day 0 – Halcyon days.

Reply to this post           MWC goes back to its roots. MWC has stopped wanting to be CES and is instead reclaiming its identity as a...