The latest data from comScore showed a few surprises: New smartphone users dropped to a very low level, below the trend line. Slightly less than 300k new smartphone users abandoned their feature phones every week during the month. Compared with the 1.5 million per week in November, it’s quite a slowdown. Penetration growth slowed as … Continue reading “Trouble with the robot?”
Before diving into the answer to the question in the title, there is some new data to digest. The latest from comScore shows consistency with the previous months of smartphone growth in the US. The growth rate was 607k/wk new-to-smartphone users. This is slightly down from 654k/wk for the previous month but up significantly from … Continue reading “Will Windows Phone get to compete with non-consumption?”
There has been increasing chatter about a new TV being developed by Apple. My opinion on the subject was summarized in the post called Tele Vision. I contend that a TV cannot be smart until the content it delivers becomes smart. The logical conclusion is that the value chain needs re-integration so that the component … Continue reading “Assessing the Smart TV Opportunity”
When tallying up the race to a billion users, I noted that both iOS and Android seem to have the potential to reach that size of user base. However, that raises the question of where those users will come from. We have to note the fact that there aren’t a billion users to be captured … Continue reading “Which mobile users will platforms harvest first?”
