Businessweek and the Google vs Apple war

According to my 2007’s post “The new mobile era” Google and Apple were going to make it in the mobile computing business. A couple of years later that prophecy (not too hard to imagine, indeed…) is supported by facts and numbers. Read the rest of this entry »

the Tablet and Steve Jobs’ next challenge

The web is full of speculations on the next Apple invention. Please note I didn’t write product but invention.

Yes, because they are going to invent something new that doesn’t exist yet.
A whole new paradigm with a new business model annexed. Read the rest of this entry »

The new mobile era

What are the implications of the introduction of the iPhone in the mobile phone industry? What is coming next with the introduction of Android, the Google sponsored Alliance’s next open source Linux based mobile OS?

Well my own humble prevision is that the devices are going to be commodities as are today PC hardware (with the exeption of the Mac platform) and the battle will bend on the software side with only two possible models:

1) Apple iPhone and few other proprietary OSes (Blackberry and Windows Mobile for the business world, Symbian instead will be doomed by the iPhone on the consumer market);
2) Open source Mobile OS as Android or other Linux based OS fully available to the consumer and business users.

Android in particular will grow in the next years essentially in that segment of the consumer market left available by the iPhone price positioning (below $ 150) contributing to increase Symbians difficulties to follow the increasing innovation provided by such devices as the Gphone & iPhone.

If you don’t need an advanced phone for business purposes as a BlackBerry or a fancy looking gadget as the iPhone you can always swith to a basic phone for less than a 100 bucks and install Android: you will obtain a fully enhanced device for much less than the currently over priced 500 bucks Nokia N95 !

PS: take a look to this article published on Mon, 12/17/2007 .

Special Leopard launch event on October 26

Apple today announced that Mac OS X Leopard will go on sale Friday, October 26 at 6:00 p.m. at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Apple’s online store is now accepting pre-orders.

According to what an Apple employee has told me this evening, a special Leopard launch event is expected on Friday, October 26 at 6:00 p.m. (no matter the time zone) at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. Soon an Apple press release should confirm this news.

Leopard is going to be sold for a suggested retail price of $129 (US)/€129 (euro) for a single user license.

See you at the Roma-Est Apple Store soon!