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 [...]
BYOD Shifts to Bring your Own Tablet
September 14, 2012 By 1 Comment
By Jim Lundy As we put some finishing touches on a Research Note about the coming Tablet Wars, there is one key finding that we’ve seen with enterprises. Much of the focus of BYOD has been on supporting Smart Phones, such as iPhone, Android and existing RIM Blackberrys. Tablets raise more issues because you can [...]
Office 2013 Preview Summarized in Three Words: Tablet, Windows 8, SharePoint
July 24, 2012 By 1 Comment
By Jim Lundy Microsoft unveiled a preview of its latest versions of Microsoft Office 2013 and Office 365 at a Press Conference in San Francisco on Monday, July 16th, 2012. We just published an Aragon Research First Cut on it titled: Microsoft Revamps Office for the Cloud and Tablet Era. This Blog post is summarizes [...]
Tablet Wars are Coming: Lower Prices, Smaller Sizes
April 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
HP Committed to Tablets, Not So Much to webOS
December 21, 2011 By
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Mike Anderson Topics: Mobile Issue: What are the trends impacting mobile computing? Summary: In just under four months since HP’s announced discontinuation of the TouchPad tablet, HP has decided to open source webOS. Event: On December 9th, HP announced that it would contribute its [...]
