What can telecommunication CEOs learn from Steve Jobs. Interesting question discussed at TM forum, based on an initial discussion on TelecomAsia. It has some good points in terms that Steve Jobs as the CEO of a telco operator could have made…
The El Bulli of telco service
Just reading through the summer (actually the second) issue of M/I/S/C (Movement Intuition Structure Complexity) a publication of Idea Couture. An article about the experience and end of El Bulli, Ferran Adria’s fancy restaurant of molecular cooking and the future of food got…
99$ HP TouchPad: A dent in the iPad universe ?
Interesting view in Forbes on the impact of 99$ HP TouchPad on the iPad future: “Why The Undead $99 TouchPad Might Portend The iPad’s Doom” However I can not really share the analysis and conclusion. Clearly the 99$ sale of the remaining TouchPads, which HP announced…
iMessage + Facetime = Skype ?
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…
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…
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…