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MWC 2024 Day 3 – The AI effect

AI disguises the also-rans and pushes ORAN to the periphery of consciousness. Start-ups – AI pollution The best part of every trade show be it CES, MWC or similar is...

Apple – Stocking filler.

Apple will find a way out. Apple has received an unwelcome Christmas present as it faces a ban on importing Apple Watch products in The USA as a result of...

Health Wearables – Grail delay

The Holy Grail of blood pressure is delayed.  It looks as if Apple is delaying its plans to include blood pressure monitoring in the Apple Watch for two or three...

Medical Wearables – Quest for the grail.

The pilgrims are still far away from the holy land. Much is being made for the potential for the Galaxy Watch 4 and the Apple Watch 7 to measure blood...

Google Fitbit – Moot point.

The fuss around Fitbit data is moot. The inevitable (see here) acquisition of Fitbit by Google is creating a fuss around user wellness data but the reality is that Google,...

Google and Fitbit – No Panacea.

Engineering disease bill rises to $16bn. Doctor Porat has been able to do very little to treat Google’s chronic case of engineering disease (see here), the bill for which is...

Wearables – Fossil fuel.

Wearables to remain fossilised. Google has purchased the right to use and disseminate core IP from Fossil for $40m (stoking rumours of a Pixel Watch) but I can’t see anything...

Fitbit – Last gasp.

Reply to this post           Healthcare is its one and long shot. Fitbit now wants to be known as a health care company but in order...

Snap Inc. – Troublesome hardware.

Reply to this post           Another plan that failed. With the reorganisation of its hardware division, Snap Inc. is admitting that it made a wrong turn...

Wearables – No show

Reply to this post           Adding LTE to Apple Watch is pointless. The problem with wearables that I described nearly 4 years ago (see here) of...