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In a blog picked up by TelecomAsia earlier this week, The Insider’s alter ego wrote about the lessons Apple’s departing CEO, Steve Jobs, might have taught the telecoms industry. It was full of the usual blah blah about the challenges Jobs and Apple caused the telcos and the disruptive nature of its products. He went on to say that it must have come as a shock that the iPhone, one mobile device, could have had such an impact on the telecoms industry as a whole. Make no mistake, it singularly... -
The fanfare that invariably accompanies a public appearance of Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, has finally died down. Amongst the slew of announcements at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference 2011 on June 6 were a number that may have a profound effect on CSPs worldwide, especially those in the mobile/wireless network space. Perhaps the most surprising new feature revealed during the keynotes was iMessage, a real-time messaging service that lets iOS users send texts, photos and videos to other iOS... -
Intense competition in the telecoms space has become the norm since the heady days of deregulation and arrival of wireless networks. Firstly between competing technologies such of CDMA and GSM and then with the intense battle for handset dominance that made Motorola, Nokia and Sony-Ericsson household names. Competition in the personal computing and IT world has been no less frenetic, but it was dominated very early by Microsoft's operating system with the main competition coming from hardware... -
You will no doubt recall that soon after it was apparent to Nokia that Apple’s wildly successful iPhone was going to impact its potential earnings it instigated legal proceedings against Apple for infringing no less than ten Nokia patents on mobile phone technology. That was in December 2009. "The patents cover wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption and are infringed by all Apple iPhone models shipped since the iPhone was introduced in 2007," Nokia said in a statement... -
Technical hitches with the iPhone 4 are not Apple's only headaches of late. It is facing pressures in Europe and China - both key markets as its US heartland saturates and it needs strong performance on a global basis. Pending EU legislation could force Apple to change its software policies, and EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes may also launch a probe into interoperability between various smartphone platforms, including iPhone. Kroes has already fined Microsoft $1.4Bn for lack of software openness... -
NFC, or near field communications technology, should be a raging success outside of Korea and Japan, but it simply is not. Despite efforts by the GSMA to get the ball rolling with CSPs worldwide and the finance and transport industries agreeing on the profound benefits of having multiple payment methods ensconced in mobile devices. It’s like world’s colliding. The traditional payment handlers such as banks and credit card issuers have the credit and distribution channels sown up as well as the all... -
I blogged last month about the iPhone business model and stimulated huge discussion about whether the business model had sufficient longevity or whether it would have to change to survive. Over the past couple of weeks things seem to have moved very, very quickly. Firstly we had the iPhone 4 antenna debacle - leading to iPhone 4.0 being compared to Microsoft's Vista slump . There is an element of Apple living by the media sword and dying by the media sword. When they do the smallest good thing... -
Please forgive me, I'm going to talk about Apple again. Yes, you've probably all heard about the iPhone 4 and how it's the thinnest, smartest, most beautiful, well-designed, remarkably constructed consumer device ever produced. And that's only what Steve Jobs had to say about it! If we can look past the hype for just a few moments, the release of the iPhone 4, whether we like it or not, is going to have a profound effect on the telecommunications industry that is potentially greater... -
I'm sure you've heard of Steve Jobs but I wonder if you've ever heard of Charles Stross. Last week his name came up twice in dispatches, firstly from my TM Forum colleague, Josh Goldfein, and secondly in a TelecomAsia article written by my good friend and global technology editor, John Tanner. So what, you ask? Well, Mr Stross, a prolific author based in Edinburgh, has pieced together Mr Job's master plan not only for Apple but for the IT and communications industry as a whole, and... -
Whilst the news that Apple is launching its own ad platform in direct competition with Google is making headline news, the real story is that it represents yet another nail in the mobile operators’ coffin. It looks like Martin Creaner and I have crossed blogs, but he still displays some hope. I'm not so sure. Google has been trying to acquire AdMob for some time now but every time it looks like a done deal another objection is raised and closure is forestalled . Google 'pinched' AdMob...
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