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Linux client market share gains outside the Android? Instead of gains will it shrink to 5% in the next 3 years?

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Nacsa Sándor

The Linux Foudation quite proundly referred to ReadWriteMobile: The ‘Year of the Linux Desktop’? That’s So 2012 [Feb 3, 2013] For those Linux enthusiasts still pining for the mythical “Year of the Linux Desktop,” the wait is over. In fact, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, consumer computing, consumer devices, notebooks, smartphones, tablets | Tagged Allwinner, Android, Apple, China, client market share, clients, emerging markets, entry-level tablets, Goldman Sachs, Google, Google Glass, Greater China, HTC, iPad, iPhone, Linux, mainland China, mainstream standard, mainstream tablets, Marvell, Microsoft, non-iPad vendors, Onda, OS, quad core, Rockchip, Samsung, SoC market, SoC vendors, Taiwan, Tim Cook, touch panel market, touch panels, Ubuntu, white-box vendors | 1 Comment

Qualcomm quad-core Cortex-A7 SoCs with Adreno 305 and 1080p coming for the high-volume global market and China

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Nacsa Sándor

With Qualcomm’s this week announcement (see below in the details section) the company is expanding the high-volume Play tier of its S4 class SoCs for aggressive competition with Taiwan (especially MediaTek, see in the details) and mainland China based competitors, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing strategy, Geopolitics, SoC | Tagged 1080p, 28 nm, 28nm, Adreno, Adreno 300, Adreno 305, Adreno 320, Beidou, China, Cortex-A7, Dell, dual SIM, Dual-SIM Dual-Active, Dual-SIM Dual-Standby, Exynos, global market high-volume smartphones, Google, GPU, high-volume market, Krait 300, Krait v2. Krait 200, Krait v3, LG, MediaTek, MSM8226, MSM8626, MSM8960T, multi-SIM, Nexus 4, quad core, S4, S4 Play, S4 Pro, smartphones, Tegra 3, video, Windows RT on Snapdragon | 5 Comments

Marko Ahtisaari from Nokia and Steven Guggenheimer from Microsoft on the Internet of Things day of LeWeb Paris’12

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Nacsa Sándor

Marko Ahtisaari: From the HERE location cloud, through design (principles) and new Lumia 620 announced, to the Internet of (Small) Things, or Nokia’s vision for IoT [leweb YouTube channel, Dec 5, 2012] – [02:20] Now the Internet is everywhere around … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, consumer computing, consumer devices, embedded computing, intelligent systems, smartphones, tablets | Tagged Android’s model, Apple, Apple’s model, carriers, CIOs, David Kirkpatrick, design, design principles, developers, developing world, differentiated selling proposition, digital world, ecosystem, enterprise IT, Google, hardware manufacturers, HERE location cloud, Internet of (Small) Things, Internet of Things, IOT, LeWeb, Lumia 620, Marko Ahtisaari, Microsoft, Microsoft vision, Microsoft’s model, Nokia, Nokia vision, operators, partners, platform, Samsung, shipper, Steven Guggenheimer, Steven Sinofsky, vision for IoT, visionary, Windows, Windows 8, Windows Embedded, Windows Phone 8 | 6 Comments

Boosting both the commodity and premium brand markets in 2013 with much more smartphones and tablets while the Windows notebook shipments will shrink by 2%

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Nacsa Sándor

This is my conclusion after reviewing The ongoing trends in the commodity and premium brand ecosystems of Android devices: – Smartphones- Tablets and The emerging new trends in the premium ecosystem of the Windows devices:- Notebooks – Smartphones as reported … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing strategy, consumer computing, consumer devices, Geopolitics, notebooks, smartphones, tablets | Tagged 2013 ICT market, 2013 market, Acer, Alibaba, Aliyun, Allwinner, Amazon, Android, Android devices, Android smartphones, Android tablets, Apple, Asustek, branded Android tablets, China market, commodity, commodity markets, Compal, Coolpad, Dell, Digitimes, Digitimes Research, ecosystems, FIH, Flextronics, Foxconn, Gartner, global tablet shipments, Google, Haier, Hewlett-Packard, HTC, Huawei, IDC, iPad, iPhone, Lenovo, LG, major brands, market forecasts, market shares, Microsoft PixelSense, Microsoft Surface, Motorola, Nexus 10, Nexus 4, Nexus 7, notebooks, ODMs, OEMs, Oppo, PC brands, PC replacement, Pegatron Technology, premium brand markets, premium brands, price points, profits, Quanta, Rockchip, Samsung, smartphones, Tablets, Taiwan makers, Toshiba, trends, white-box tablets, Window Phone, Windows 8, Windows notebooks, Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 7.8, Windows Phone 8, Windows RT, Wistron, Xiaomi, ZTE | 5 Comments

The low priced, Android based smartphones of China will change the global market

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Nacsa Sándor

During the 12 months or so China took over the overall leading market role for smartphones from the key markets considered to be in the lead: US, Australia, Brazil, Great Britain (GB), Germany, France, Italy and Spain. An even more … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, consumer computing, Geopolitics, smartphones | Tagged Alibaba Group, Analysys International, Android, Apple, Asia-Pacific, Australia, Baidu, Brazil, Canalys, China, commoditization, commoditization of smartphones, Coolpad, devices and services, France, GB, Germany, Gionee, global market, Google, Gordon Frazer, Great Britain, HTC, Huawei, IDC, IHS iSuppli, India, iOS, iPhone, iPhone 3GS, Italy, K-Touch, Kantar, Latin America, lead market, Lenovo, low-end, Meizu Technology, Mexico, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Oppo, price, price tier, Ralph Haupter, RIM, Russia, Samsung, Shanda Interactive, smartphones, Spain, Symbian, United States, US, Windows Phone 8, Xiaomi, ZTE | 7 Comments

Nexus 7: Google wanted it in 4 months for $199/$245, ASUS delivered + Nexus Q (of Google’s own design and manufacturing) added for social streaming from Google Play to speakers and screen in home under Android device control

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Nacsa Sándor

+ the whole Android-centric story is getting even more interesting when Chrome, Google Drive, Chrome OS and the apps related to that are added. So the latest updates on that are included here as well (in fact from the Day … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, consumer devices, smartphones | Tagged Android, Android 4.1, Android Market, Android phones, Android tablets, appsgames, Asus, books, Chrome, Chrome for Android, Chrome for iPad, Chrome for iPhone, Chrome OS, Chrome Remote Desktop, Chrome Web Store, Chromebook, Chromebox, digital entertainment distribution service, digital entertainment distribution service in the cloud, distribution service, entertainment, Google, Google Drive, Google Drive for Android, Google Drive for iOS, Google I/O, Google I/O 2012, Google Now, Google Play, Jelly Bean, magazines, movies, music, Nexus 7, Nexus Q, OMAP4460, smartphones, speakers, Tablets, Tegra 3, TV | 2 Comments

Giving up the total OEM reliance strategy: the Microsoft Surface tablet

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Nacsa Sándor

Follow ups:- Microsoft Surface: its premium quality/price vs. even iPad3 [Oct 26, 2012]- Microsoft Surface: First media reflections after the New-York press launch [Oct 26, 2012] Updates #2: As the result of this sudden turn of direction 9 months ago, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, consumer computing, consumer devices, tablets | Tagged Android, Apple, ARM, casing, ClearType, consumption, Core i5, creation, digital ink stylus, ecosystem, expanded ecosystem, Google, Intel, iPad, Ivy Bridge, kickstand, Microsoft, Microsoft OEMs, Microsoft PixelSense, NVIDIA, OEMs, PC, pen, pen input, Perimeter Venting, PixelSense, Samsung SUR40, SUR40, Surface, tablet market, tablet PC, Tablets, Tegra, Touch Cover, Type Cover, VaporMg, Windows, Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro, Windows RT | 11 Comments

The Where Platform from Nokia: a company move to taking data as a raw material to build products

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Nacsa Sándor

This week news regarding the subject in the title are summarized in the following Nokia blog posts and videos embedded in those posts: – From Where 2.0 To Just Where; With Meh 2.0 Somewhere In The Middle [blog of Gary … Continue reading →

Posted in "smart" feature phones, Cloud Computing strategy, consumer devices, intelligent systems, SaaS, smartphones, tablets | Tagged 3D landmarks, Activity Data, Alex Osaki, Amazon Web Services, Amy O'Connor, Apache Hadoop, automotive navigation system, behavioral data, Big Data, Cloudera, contextual data, Data Analytics, Datameer, DataStax, derived data, digital map data, digital map database, Directions, Drive, EMC Greenplum, Galigeo, Gary Gale, Google, Hadoop, Hadoop solutions, Hadoop system, Heat Maps, Hortonworks, HStreaming, IBM, indexing, indexing the real world, intelligent meaning, Learning Engine, location business, Location&Commerce, location-based content, MapR, Maps, Michael Halbherr, Navigable Map Data, NAVTEQ, NAVTEQ Map, Nokia, Nokia Location & Commerce, Nokia Location Platform, Nokia Location&Commerce, Nokia Maps, Nokia Maps 3D, Nokia Maps API for HTML5, Nokia Maps API for JavaScript, Nokia Maps API for Qt, Nokia Maps API for Windows Phone, Nokia Maps HTML5 API, Nokia Maps Suite, Nokia Maps Suite 2.0, Nokia Places, Nokia Places API for HTTP, Nokia Places API for Java ME, Nokia Places API for JavaScript, online services, Open Street Map, Outerthought, Pentaho, personal navigation device, Places, Platform Computing, PND, Positioning, real time indexing, Real-World Computable, Reference Data, RESTful Maps, RESTful Places, restructuring, Sara Rossio, Sensed Behaviour, sensor evolution, sensors, smart data, Smart Data Analytics, the real world, The Third Phase of Mobility, the virtual world, The Where Platform, Thom Brenner, TomTom, Traffic, Transport, Where Ecosystem, Zettaset | 7 Comments

James Whittaker’s Quality Software Crusade from Academia to Microsoft, then Google and now back to Microsoft

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Nacsa Sándor

Updates: Why I joined Microsoft [published: March 21, 2012; written: March 13, 2012] - James Whittaker ‏ @docjamesw 7:06 AM – 20 Mar 12 via web · Details A web futurist is someone who hates the web as it is now and envisions a better future for it. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, Cloud SW engineering, SaaS | Tagged Chrome, cloud, developers, dogfooding, Exploratory Software Testing, Facebook, functional testing, Gmail, Google, How Google Tests Software, integration testing, James Whittaker, Larry Page, Manual testing, Microsoft, Orkut, Security Development Lifecycle, software quality, software testing, testers, testing, Trustworthy Computing, Visual Studio Team System, Visual Studio Team System Test Edition, web | 3 Comments

Nokia under transition (as reported by the company)

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Nacsa Sándor

Note and updates: stock price is up 3.17% as per above (those numbers are in US$) – see more: Nokia trying the first Lumia month in China with China Telecom exclusive [March 28, 2012] - Nokia seeks to retake China market share [Reuters, March … Continue reading →

Posted in "smart" feature phones, consumer devices, Mobile Internet, smartphones, tablets, Uncategorized | Tagged Accenture, advertising platforms, advertising services, Alcatel-Lucent, Amdocs, Android, Apple, application store, Asia, Asia-Pacific, automotive, billing platforms, Bing search service, Blackberry OS, broadband optimization, business model, Canada, carriers, China, churn, Cisco, Competition, component suppliers, consumer proposition, counterfeit products, Customer Experience Management, Customer Experience Management (Nokia-Siemens Networks), data plan, data traffic, developed markets, Devices & Services business (Nokia), Devices & Services Other (Nokia), digital map, distribution, distribution network, dual SIM, ecosystem, emerging markets, employee reductions, Ericsson, Europe, execution, feature phones, future technology disruptions, Google, handset vendors, hardware design, HP, Huawei, IBM, imagery, India, innovation, Intellectual Property, Intelligent Sensor Network, Internet companies, iOS, iPhone, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Licensing, Liquid Core, Liquid Net, Liquid Radio, Liquid Transport, Location & Commerce business (Nokia), location-based services, Lumia, managed services, manufacturing, mapping services, market conditions, MeeGo, Microsoft, Microsoft partnership, Middle East and Africa, mobile device industry, Mobile Devices, mobile networks, Mobile Phones (Nokia), monetization models, Motorola Solutions, navigation, navigation services, NAVTEQ, NEC, network architecture, network infrastructure, network management, new revenue streams, Nokia, Nokia Asha, Nokia Lumia, Nokia Maps, Nokia Siemens Networks, non-manufacturing patent licensing entities, Open Street Map, operational structure, operator billing, operator-driven distribution, operators, Oracle, outsourcing, patent portfolio, Patents, personal navigation device, platform support payment, price erosion, price pressure, pricing, product and sales package customization, product assembly, product development, product differentiation, profit margins, profitable growth, research, Research in Motion, restructuring, RIM, sensors, Series 40, smart devices, Smart Devices (Nokia), smartphones, social media, software expertise, software royalty, sourcing models, strategy, subscriber growth, Symbian, telecommunications infrastructure, TomTom, transition, trends, United States, unlicensed products, User Experience, value-added services, Vertu, visual media, war of ecosystems, Windows Marketplace, Windows Phone, wireless broadband, wireless carriers, ZTE | 6 Comments

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Qualcomm quad-core Cortex-A7 SoCs with Adreno 305 and 1080p coming for the high-volume global market and China

Marko Ahtisaari from Nokia and Steven Guggenheimer from Microsoft on the Internet of Things day of LeWeb Paris’12

Boosting both the commodity and premium brand markets in 2013 with much more smartphones and tablets while the Windows notebook shipments will shrink by 2%

The low priced, Android based smartphones of China will change the global market

Nexus 7: Google wanted it in 4 months for $199/$245, ASUS delivered + Nexus Q (of Google’s own design and manufacturing) added for social streaming from Google Play to speakers and screen in home under Android device control

Giving up the total OEM reliance strategy: the Microsoft Surface tablet

The Where Platform from Nokia: a company move to taking data as a raw material to build products

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