Android

A general challenge facing competition authorities in the digital era is learning how to apply the traditional tools of competition policy in multi-sided platform environments. This column argues that the Google Android case offers a great…

The last earnings report from Apple was good on many fronts. While I was concerned with the dip in sales everywhere outside of the iPhone, Apple’s iPhone sales showed great promise, both in terms of unit sales and average selling price. But…

The new flagship phone for Motorola, Google's mobile hardware subsidiary, the Moto X has grabbed the tech industry's attention. It is made in the US and comes with a lot of flashy customization features. I think the phone is a bit…

Google's big developer conference began yesterday and we heard a lot of news about what Google has planned over the coming months. However, the big highlights centered around the Android platform. As I have indicated over the past 4 years,…

Gartner's latest market share results are in and they show Google's Android operating system gaining significant market share in Q1 2013 to nearly 75%. That is a jump of almost 20% in just one year.

In the mobile world, everyone seems to be in a frenzy over Samsung's next Galaxy smartphone. Apparently, Samsung is the new Apple, where product launches are media events par excellence, marketed to build anticipation. However, while…

I have been predicting that Amazon would launch a smartphone in 2013 for some time. And now we have more evidence that this is going to happen. See my September post "Is the Amazon Phone a Boon or Threat for Google and Android?" for when I…

My thesis for the smartphone industry is that the industry will be increasingly driven by the conversion of price-sensitive buyers in developed and emerging markets from lesser phones or no phones to smartphones. The market for high-priced…

I am still in vacation mode but I will start to post a lot more thematic content over the next two weeks. This post will concentrate on the mobile handset market and is based largely on a recent market analysis by Gartner. Earlier in the…

There are a lot of different threads in today's links to choose from for the overarching theme. So I will just choose one and run with it. Let's look at the Amazon selling at cost issue from Apple's perspective. What Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos…