The most startling thing here isn’t Apple’s marketshare and growth (as the article is focusing on), but how Nokia’s smartphone marketshare skidded from 38% to 15% in one year!
Plot that on a trendline and it doesn’t look good for Nokia at all by this time next year!
Source: Mashable
Elevation Partners Director and Co-Founder Roger McNamee
Roger is an investor in some huge tech successes. He’s in a band, loves HTML5 and has invested in Forbes and National Geographic. This guy is engaging, entertaining and makes some very succinct points on where he thinks the future lies.
Here’s some topics he covers:
- Demise of Microsoft Means Opportunity
- Google in a Tough Spot
- Creativity Rules in HTML5
- Apple Domination in Tablets
- Access from Any Screen
- The Social Wave Is Over
- TV the Last Protected Media
- Why Apple Supports HTML5
- Money in the Music Industry
Glad he did the obligatory “one more thing”, just a pity it wasn’t the iPhone 5.
Apple’s new iOS 5 - demo (not). But fun!
Apple’s iPhone as a business is nearly twice the size of Google’s entire operation.
iPad’s new headphone jack.
Interesting design issues for iPod 2. Great feature using the pogo pin from a waterproof point of view, but weird to have it on the edge like that.
Article: iPad 2 introduces new headphone jack
Source: fury.com
Microsoft vs Apple: Who’s cool, who’s the giant?
I find it quite funny how the perceived positions of these two companies are starting to switch.
First up: Microsoft (the boring geeky corporate monolithic safe bet) sells a record breaking 8 Million Kinects over the holidays. Yep, they’re fast becoming a big gaming player.
Secondly: Apple ramps up it’s business offering, sells 17 million iPads and gnaws away at laptop and netbook sales, and overtakes Microsoft to being the most valuable tech company and the the 2nd most valuable company in America (nearly catching Exxon).
iPad Officially Launches in South Africa
Source: digicape.co.za
Apple’s share price plummets today on news that Steve Jobs’ health is not good and he needs to take “an absence of leave” to sort it out.
As expected the markets panicked and huge volumes of shares were traded.
Then, also as expected, once the panic was over everyone remembered that actually Apple is solid, makes awesome products and billions in profits!
My Blackberry Is Not Working! - The One Ronnie, Preview - BBC One
You have probably all seen this already, bust worth reposting. Not quite as good as The Two Ronnies. About half as good to be precise.
Source: youtube.com
When Apple was at 78, I tried unsuccessfully to buy shares directly (without a broker). Now at 400% growth I am feeling rather sorry for myself!
Mobile Phone Operating System Domination - (chart)
Source: feedproxy.google.com
