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by Mike Anderson There has been an amazing level of speculation and hype about Facebook introducing their own mobile smartphone. Even though Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly denied that making the phone hardware either made sense for Facebook, or aligned with its business strategy, the rumor mills persisted. With its announcement of Home today, Facebook has [...]
By Mike Anderson RIM, now BlackBerry, has taken a beating that has done nothing but worsen since the introduction of Apple’s iPhone in 2007. It’s response in 2012 has resulted in nothing short of a massive overhaul, from management to cost structure to product strategy. BlackBerry has created of a new strategy with a new [...]
By Mike Anderson This week has been a hot start to the mobile ecosystem battles expected in 2013. Apple has seen its glow begin to dim. Samsung’s earnings shine to record levels because of smartphones. Microsoft hits its numbers even though Surface hasn’t arisen to drive Windows. And Lenovo has made public its interest as [...]
By Mike Anderson The Mobile Ecosystem conflict in 2013 will be characterized by a tumultuous and exciting year. Significant changes are under way as the mobile ecosystem players must confront growing pressures and big questions regarding their future. Apple, Microsoft, Google, RIM and Samsung each face a big question as the year unfolds. Can Apple maintain its [...]
By Jim Lundy Mobile Upgrades is the new evaluation criteria. The Smartphone or Tablet that you buy for your friends and family for Christmas might not be as upgradable as you think. There is a war raging on Android support forums and it goes like this: when will my phone get the latest Android OS [...]
By Jim Lundy It was just a year ago and the only serious Tablet on the market was the iPad 2. Apple sold 15.43 million iPad 2s in the fourth quarter of 2011. Jump ahead to the holiday season for 2012 and the iPad Mini and Google Nexus 7 just started shipping in volume. In numerous [...]
By Mike Anderson Apple’s lawsuit against Samsung has been big news. On August 24 the jury ruled that Samsung had violated some of Apple’s patents, and awarded Apple more than $1 billion. The legal wrangling is far from over, but the implications are far reaching. Apple Samsung Verdict Implications Views about the possible impact have varied [...]
By Jim Lundy The last two days at our Aragon Research offsite, we had a need for video sharing with a remote colleague and we did not have a room based or dedicated video conferencing system. To make a long story short, we ended up using an Apple iPad 2 as a video capture device [...]
By Jim Lundy In the Tablet Wars that are coming, the expectations of users of how a Tablet behaves are very high. Just ask anyone that has used an iPad and then tried to use something else. This blog post is the result of a conversation I had with an IT Leader over the weekend. [...]
Apple iOS 6: Siri’s Voice Gets Louder To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topic: Mobile Issues: What are the best practices for managing content across the enterprise? How will enterprises leverage mobile ecosystems to gain a competitive advantage? Summary: Apple announced iOS 6, the sixth version of its mobile OS. A key part of the announcement was the expansion of its [...]
By Mike Anderson Mobile Ecosystem There is a war taking place in mobile and the battle ground is the Mobile Ecosystem. Mobile ecosystems are the key to success in mobile. Devices grab the headlines, as Microsoft did this week with Surface and like Apple did in March with the 3rd generation iPad. Behind the tablets and [...]
By Jim Lundy Apple’s annual World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC 2012) is nearly here. There are many people that make a business of following Apple and with their resurgence there is daily speculation about new products, particularly around the iPhone. We analyzed Apple earlier this year in our Special Report on Apple in the Enterprise. [...]
By Jim Lundy While on a flight today I was doing some last minute texting (via Apple Siri) before the doors closed. I sat next to an executive who put her Blackberry down next to me. I asked her how long she planned to keep using it. Her reply was pretty standard – “until my [...]
By Jim Lundy Editors Note: This blog on Patent Wars was originally posted on August 17, 2011. Patent battles among tech giants are not new. What is new is the realization that mobile is the new battle ground and the stakes are high. In patent wars, it is a chess game and one of the [...]
By Jim Lundy Will 2012 finally be the year that the Tablet wars get started? So far, not in the first half, but the second half looks promising mainly due to new form factors. Rumor are swirling about smaller 7 inch tablets coming from Google and Apple. The main thing that is occurring is the maturation [...]
By Mike Anderson Last year as we were forming Aragon I was a steadfast Windows user. Although we had made the decision early that we would allow user freedom of choice for computing, Jim was all Mac in his home office. Keeping integration simple by choosing the same platform made sense as a startup, but I [...]
By Jim Lundy This week was full of announcements from major HCM players, such as SAP (solidified its Cloud Roadmap based on SuccessFactors) and Oracle (which sought to reassure customers on its pending acquisition of Cloud Talent provider Taleo). In related First Cuts, we predicted the move by Oracle and we also think this will not be [...]
By Jim Lundy Last night, as myself and our VP of Sales Don Kibler were preparing for an evening meal, we were using mobile apps to find a decent restaurant. We fiddled with the apps for ten minutes looking for decent places to eat near our hotel, something you’ve probably done if you travel in [...]
By Jim Lundy A new era of computing is upon us. It involves touch and voice, simplicity and apps that let people do amazing things. It is one in which the operating system stays in the background and doesn’t get in the way of people doing work, watching movies, playing games or listening to music. [...]
By Jim Lundy Over the weekend, I had a few problems with Microsoft Word 2011 running on OS X Lion that prompted me to check the settings for Word. Surprise, I found that Word 2011 is not set to automatically create a backup file of your documents, something that since the earliest days of Office [...]
