Here is a surprisingly controversial statement: The iPad is going to be huge. Tablets, in general, will someday soon not merely outsell personal computers, but…
CONTEXT
This is what comes after search
This article has been corrected. The average person with an Android smartphone is using it to search the web, from a browser, only 1.25 times…
INNOVATIONEERING
Microsoft is building its own Google X team, because attempting the impossible is great PR
Microsoft is building a team of elite engineers to cook up “disruptive technologies”—just like the folks on Google’s secretive “X” team who brought us the…
FRIENDS
Google is waging a financial war of attrition to win the cloud
Google is fighting a war on multiple fronts—against Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and others—and is outspending them all in the one area that will be critical…
Apple earnings prove it: This is a phone company
Apple has still got some gas in the tank. Apple set a new revenue record, again. — Horace Dediu (@asymco) April 23, 2014 Both profits…
IPAD FATIGUE
Why Apple has stopped growing
Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer predicted in January that Apple will generate the same amount of revenue this past quarter—the company releases its financials today—as it…
AIR SUPREMACY
Amazon and Google are in an epic battle to dominate the cloud—and Amazon may already have won
In technology, it’s sometimes good to let a pioneer figure out the pitfalls of a new market. Apple’s iPod transformed music listening after countless lesser…
GALAXY TAB
Tech companies are liars: Samsung edition
Here’s an open secret about tech companies that many investors fail to appreciate: As long as they’re not breaking the law, they’ll “disclose” whatever numbers…
For older Americans, tablets and e-readers are the new cell phones with huge buttons
More Americans age 65 and older own either a tablet or an e-reader (27%) than own smartphones (18%)—the reverse of the proportions for the general…
MACBOOK AIRIER
The chip in the iPhone 5s is way more powerful than it needs to be—and that’s bad news for Intel
This item has been corrected. The obsessives at the hardware blog AnandTech have dug deeper than ever into the guts of the chip that powers…
We may already know how we will cure death—but should we?
A pair of advocates—they do legitimate research too, but their ardor is so intense, it’s hard to call them scientists—believe that they will, within their…
LEVERAGE
Google’s brilliant plan to get millions to adopt its e-money system: Gmail
In May 2013, Google soft-launched a straightforward scheme for sending money to other people. It lets you connect Gmail with a Google Wallet account and…
