So Facebook’s ‘awesome’ announcement of Skype integration and video calling for all Facebook users came and went. The mass-media promptly and lazily concluded that Facebook has successfully countered Google+’s main advantage and that Facebook will remain the social networking champion of the world forever. They are, as usual, completely missing the point and subscribing to […]
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My Thoughts on Google+
July 2, 2011 
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Google has just suspended invitations to Google+ (or Google Plus) as they’ve maxed-out in just two days. A good start, but only time will tell whether it is really a Facebook ‘killer’ or not. I am a big fan of Google, I like the way they innovate and experiment. For me, Google+ is a logical […]
Continue readingAndroid Set to Blow Past Estimates
April 27, 2011 2 Comments
Market research companies infuriate me, more often than not their conclusions are glaringly wrong. For example, at least two ‘respected’ research firms predicted that Windows 7 would be the 2nd biggest smartphone platform in 2016. This conclusion, if you can call it that, was arrived at from the assumption that nearly all Nokia/Symbian customers would […]
Continue readingApple Plays Chicken With Samsung
April 19, 2011 0 Comments
Apple may be the largest tech company in the world by market capitalisation, but Samsung is ~20th biggest of any company in the world in terms of turnover with approximately $140billion in sales in 2010 vs Apple’s $65billion. Samsung are also one of Apple’s most important suppliers, selling $5.7billion of chips and other components to […]
Continue readingApple Lower Themselves
March 2, 2011 0 Comments
The Apple iPad 2 announcement was preceded by a long video which exalted its benefit to society and more pathetically, spent time digging into the competition. One slide branded 2011 as the ‘year of the copycat’ and another mocked the Android app store figures. Apple are doing themselves a disservice here. It is bad enough […]
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Alistair Milne 