Observations: Devices - August 31, 2010
Standard disclaimer: don’t take from my selections, ordering, headlines, etc. any indications of the interests or plans of my employer (if you do, you’ll undoubtedly be disappointed when they don’t play out.)
- Report: Amazon, looking beyond Kindle, considers making phones
- Worldwide Mobile Device Sales Grew 13.8% in Q2, But Competition Drove Prices Down
- A Planet of Connected Devices
- Smartphone Bloodbath: Report Card at Half Point of Year 2010 for all major brands
- From Hot to Not: How Component Shortages Will Stifle the Smartphone Market
- Android Users Are the New Mobile Data Hogs
- RIM’s Flickering Torch Should Signal Defeat For The “Consumer-Grade” Blackberry
- RIM Must Switch To Android Now, Before It’s Too Late
- Handset exclusivity - One year at the FCC
- RIM is the New Palm
- Android Nation?
September 2nd, 2010 at 4:44 pm
That amazon article is interesting. It is making me wonder if this is the start of a trend of all major content retailers offering “walled gardens” of available content, complete with requisite devices. From a business perspective, it makes a huge amount of sense albeit with one huge caveat. The devices have to be incredibly good and easy to use and provide value for the money. Amazon’s ereader is one of the best and it isn’t because of the store it is attached to, although this is a plus, it is because it is one of the leading devices in the field.