Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Amazon with a major event on June 18th, indications that the Kindle Fire Smartphone is on it’s way. The question I have is not about the announcement, but the availability of the handset to consumers in the US, the UK, and then the rest of the world.
Gordon Kelly, via Forbes. Samsung’s seemingly baffling TouchWiz strategy suddenly makes sense. While even Samsung fans decry TouchWiz’s heavy handedness, it achieves its aim perfectly: hide Android from mainstream users. Meanwhile the company has studied Apple well, swamping would be (and arguably better) rivals with superior advertising spend. Meanwhile apply TouchWiz to Tizen, throw in Android app compatibility, patch obvious gaps with the TouchWiz app infrastructure it has been building and come the launch of a Tizen running Samsung Galaxy S6 most users outside tech circles would struggle to tell the difference. Samsung would have maintained its sales and gained
Sony continue to iterate their Android line-up to good effect. I reviewed the Xperia Z2 Tablet over the weekend, and while owners of the first Z Tablet don’t need to be looking yet for an upgrade, anyone looking to the market for a new ten-inch Android tablet should seriously consider this tablet. …every piece of hardware is about compromise, and Sony has made different decisions to Samsung, Amazon, and Apple with the Xperia Z2 Tablet. Those decisions (go for a thin design, focus on media consumption, and beef up the IP55 and IP58 protection) have created a distinctive tablet range
I’ve spent some time with the Samsung’s Galaxy S5 (and the Gear 2 smartwatch), and the three-part review can be found over on Forbes. Last year’s Galaxy S4 felt a safe bet of a device. It continued Samsung’s smartphone plans, and the familiarity helped the sales. Iterating the Galaxy S5 was the easy option that would ensure nobody’s job was at risk. Like a Ford pick-up truck, this smartphone is a workhorse that gets the job done. That approach trades the impact of a fashionable and cutting edge device, it trades away the idea that you are an innovator and
Good news! Samsung sold 500,000 smartwatches! Except… I wonder if that counts the return rate, the number bundled with a Galaxy S4 and S5 and placed in a drawer, and those that are still sitting on shelves but classified as sold?
Kurt Eichenwald takes a look at Samsung/Apple for Vanity Fair, and the… interesting strategy that Samsung has used time and time again in regards to patents and competitive pressure: According to various court records and people who have worked with Samsung, ignoring competitors’ patents is not uncommon for the Korean company. And once it’s caught it launches into the same sort of tactics used in the Apple case: countersue, delay, lose, delay, appeal, and then, when defeat is approaching, settle. “They never met a patent they didn’t think they might like to use, no matter who it belongs to,” says
