admin81073Sep 10, 20144 min readInternet of ThingsThe 3 key Apple Watch features that nobody talks about. Yet.[If Apple wants to create a new, large product category out of smart watches, they need to create mass-market demand for their new...
admin81073Jun 26, 20146 min readInternet of ThingsWho will be the iOS and Android of IoT?[Put together, the announcements at Google I/O and from Apple, Samsung, Nest, Quirky and others in the past weeks paint a crystal clear...
admin81073May 28, 20144 min readInternet of ThingsHow Samsung enlists developers to make sense of health dataSamsung unveiled its vision on mobile health. The company wants to provide the “voice of your body” with two new intiatives: a...
admin81073Jun 5, 20135 min readBusiness Models and StrategyApple & Samsung's "Profit Share" Trap[Are the smartphone wars about profit share or market share? Guest author Sameer Singh argues that the case for profit is fundamentally...
admin81073Jan 16, 20136 min readBusiness Models and StrategyThe Xiaomi Tribe: New hope for handset makers?[Chinese handset maker entrant Xiaomi is putting itself in the spotlight with impressive first year sales and innovation across hardware,...
admin81073Dec 5, 20127 min readBusiness Models and StrategyThe Apple and Samsung Profit Recipe[Apple and Samsung are sucking the oxygen out of the room. What’s the recipe of their profits and why are all the other OEMs struggling?...
admin81073Nov 2, 20115 min readPlatform warsThe elusive long-tail of mobile shipments[The era of smartphones is upon us, as penetration increases from 11% in 2008 to over 25% in 2011. But what of the remaining three...
admin81073Oct 16, 20117 min readPlatform warsFrom MeeGo to Tizen: the making of another software bubble[Just a short 1.5 years from MeeGo’s birth, Intel dumps it to shift focus to a new platform, Tizen, in partnership with Samsung. Guest...
admin81073Apr 17, 20115 min readPlatform warsThe mobile services landscape: Can OEMs compete with platform vendors?[Growing competition and price pressures push handset makers to seek new ways to differentiate. This increasingly means services....
admin81073Feb 11, 20115 min readBusiness Models and StrategyThe Android Monopoly and how to harness it[Behind Android’s stellar success is a love and hate relationship with handset vendors. Android is a critical launchpad for PC-borne OEMs...
admin81073Oct 23, 20105 min readPlatform warsSymbian is dead. Long live Symbian[Is Symbian coming to the end of its shelf life? Research Director Andreas Constantinou dissects the motivations behind Nokia’s strategy...
admin81073Oct 18, 20105 min readPlatform warsSmart < feature phones = the unbalanced equation (100 Million Club series)[Smartphones get all the media attention, but it’s feature phones that are still driving the mobile industry. Marketing Manager Matos...
admin81073Jul 26, 20107 min readBusiness Models and StrategyRemapping the handset OEM landscape: squeezed in between a rock and a hard place[In a race for profits, the mobile industry finds itself squeezed between vertically integrated players like Apple and horizontal players...
admin81073Jun 27, 20103 min readInfographicsMapping the mobile ecosystem: top-20 most connected companiesBack in March we released the 3rd edition of the Mobile Industry Atlas, the definitive who’s who of the mobile industry. Since its humble...
admin81073Jun 3, 20104 min readBusiness Models and StrategyLead, innovate or assemble: three choices for handset OEMs as mobile starts to look like the PC indu[Android has triggered more changes to the mobile industry than anyone had imagined. Research Director, Andreas Constantinou looks at the...
admin81073Apr 25, 20106 min readApps and app storesWholesale Applications Community: The Operator Love Affair with Developers[The Wholesale Application Community has made big headlines in the last two months. But beyond the affectionate operator feelings and...
admin81073Feb 26, 20104 min readMobile TrendsDemolition Derby in Devices: The roller-coaster ride is on[The economic realities will lead to a roller-coaster ride that will shake up the mobile industry. Guest blogger Richard Kramer talks...
admin81073Jan 24, 20108 min readPlatform warsBehind the Smartphone Craze: redrawing the map of mobile platforms[Thought Android and iPhone are taking over the world? Think again. The device platforms map is more fragmented than ever, while the...