The action at CES is all with the small companies. Big guys are short of ideas. The big press conferences where the all the queues were to be found were...
Project Connected Home over IP needs to avoid the fudge of compromise. Making all connected devices compatible is an excellent idea but this is going to be very difficult to...
Amazon is winning through ubiquity. Amazon certainly gets the prize for launching the most products at the same time, but with many of them clearly being wild shots in the...
The best refinement is to ditch Bixby Undeterred by its failure to launch Galaxy Home, a smart speaker with the execrable Bixby, Samsung is doubling down with a mini version...
In a timely fashion, Amazon touts Alexa’s superiority. At the same time as Google was launching a new and improved version of Google Assistant at Google i/o, Amazon was quick...
Finally, some good news for Google. Smart speaker shipments for Q4 18 show that Google has made up some ground on Amazon, but it has a very long way to...
Amazon goes vertical. Amazon has moved to cement its grip on the smart home with the purchase of the WiFi router company Eero that should make the smart home much...
Google increasingly at risk of losing. Walmart has abandoned Google Express dealing what is likely to be a fatal blow to Google’s attempt to challenge Amazon in the one place...
Amazon gains a short-lived edge over Google. Amazon is enabling its skills to talk to one another in a move that will greatly enhance the functionality and appeal of Alexa...
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.
Essential Products – Never essential.
Me too products sink the ship. Andy Rubin’s Essential Products Inc has gone from a $1.2bn start-up to ignominious closure simply because it catastrophically failed to live up to its...