One of the more suprising announcements in Apple’s WWDC keynote was iMessage in iOS5. Besides the already mentioned fact that the operators will not like this replacement of their SMS services, especially as it seems to be seamlessly switching between…
Apple, the new / old Microsoft
Looking at all the new features Apple announced for iOS and MacOS during the WWDC keynote I had a strange feeling of deja vu. Microsoft has been known and accused of copying successfull 3rd party applications from the Windows ecosystem…
iPad changes the way we interact with computers
Just found this very insightful presentation at slideshare on how the iPad changed the way we interact with computers. Especially watching children interact with the iPad shows how great the UI and user experience is.
Mary Meeker publishes “Top Mobile Internet Trends”
Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkens just released her “Top Mobile Internet Trends”. Overall interesting read. What immediately struck me were slides 4 and 5 showing the exceptional take-off for the iPad and the Apple App-Store. The interesting part is that…
iNFC
The new iPad will have cameras (front- and/or rear-facing), higher resolution (or not), it will be using carbon-fiber or still a unibody and it will support NFC or Near-Field-Communication. So the rumors go. And NFC is also rumored to be part…
Social customer acquisition
Just following up on the owning the customer / softSIM post and adding the social network flavor of facebook, linkedin, xing and the cool technology of “bumping” information between phones (www.bu.mp) What if you could just switch operators by “bumping” 2 phones. So…
Who owns the customer ?
Again and again I come across remarks about the fight for “who owns the customer”. Especially in the telecommunications industry there is a lengthy debate about this with regards to telecommunication operators, device manufacturers, Internet companies, content owners. My first point is that…
The value of the process
Just yesterday I came across this great presentation by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels at Ted 2009. [media id=3 width=320 height=240] . Besides the gorgeous architecture and the interesting ideas captured within, what especially struck me were his remarks about their design process…
State of the RIM address
Just want to point you to this really great analysis of today’s Research-in-Motion / Blackberry business facing the iPhone and Android competition. Michael Mace does an excellent job in putting the business essentials together and not only looking at design…
Smart Grids – Differentiated Electricity
In the mobile industry policy control and differentiating bandwidth and service is one of the key topics at the moment. Not only to correlated usage and price, but also to allow communication operators to establish new business models. In parallel…