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Enterprises will need blockchain solutions. Good to see AWS joining the fray, though much of their offering is centralized.

However they took their time given where players like Microsoft and IBM are doing.
https://www.abiresearch.com/pr...

addording to this teardown : https://www.abiresearch.com/pr... they are doing OK with margins.

Apple imight be attempting to make $300/unit, but based on the article not selling well.. Amazon makes $15 on their cheaper dots and are selling them like crazy.

Most people don't need the complication and headaches of a PC, be it MS or Apple. I realize a significant percentage of people here are gamers, programmers, & IT people, most of the population isn't.

For most people, a smartphone and an "ultra portable" like a Chromebook is all they really need. We are already seeing sales of new iPhone decline, I think because most have gotten a phone as powerful as they are comfortable with now combined with few significant new features. Chromebook sales is the only market segment showing an increase. https://www.abiresearch.com/pr...

17% growth for Apple... year on year, while the sequential decline is 14%, do you understand what that means? If your one-button IQ does not comprehend, then think "cliff, falling".

ABI Research reports that Android once again dominated the Q1 2014 shipment numbers for smartphone advanced operating systems with *** 80% *** market share (including AOSP) of just under 300 million smartphones shipped in Q1 2014.

Read and weep. Or bluster, it's up to you.

There thataboy, your trademark Apple toady obnoxious flows right back to you.

Q1 2014 Smartphone OS Results: Android Dominates High Growth Developing Markets>Q1 2014 Smartphone OS Results: Android Dominates High Growth Developing Markets

Isn't that sweet? Including the Android open source project, Android now has 80% of the worldwide smartphone market and sitll rising. Windows phones rising too, while iOS turned in a 14% decline from last quarter. Slip, slip slipping away. Your pals slipping away too, will you be the last astroturfer standing?

Brilliant retort by the way, consistent with your one button IQ.

Great story how Google gets it grip on Android.

However, as a counterpoint, here is a far less histrionic story which shows that AOSP is growing FASTER than Goog'es own Android, and has already easiy eclipsed iOS market share. Not to mention Nokia's Normandy phone, to be released later this month running a forked version of AOSP matched with Nokia serices rather than Google ones.

ABI Research reports that Android once again dominated the Q4 2013 shipment numbers for smartphone advanced operating systems with 77% market share of over 280 million smartphones shipped in Q4 2013.Nearly one billion smartphones were shipped in 2013, Android accounting for 78% across the year.

Android’s dominance is not quite as rosy as it seems though, with most of the growth coming from forked Android operating systems (137% year-on-year), mainly in China, India, and adjacent markets. Forked Android or AOSP accounted for 25% market share with 71 million unit shipments, as opposed to certified Android’s share of 52%, of a total of 77% market share.

https://www.abiresearch.com/pr...

For some reason, there's a concerted campaign happening to try to convince people that Google has locked up Android. It's an odd thing to pretend, and I'm wondering what their motive is?

...titled "QNX and Windows Embedded Automotive Market Share to Drop to 69% with Open Source Linux/GENIVI Grabbing 20% of Automotive OS Shipments by end of 2018," can be found here. Excerpt: "ABI Research forecasts that the number of OEM-installed connected car telematics systems will increase from around 7.8 million at the end of 2012 to 46.8 million units globally by the end of 2018, with Linux/GENIVI platforms accounting for an increasing percentage of shipments during the period. At present, QNX Software and Microsoft together account for around 75 to 80% of the car-infotainment OS market. However, questions remain about the long-term future of proprietary automotive OSes. 'The automotive industry is set for a number of dramatic paradigm shifts,' said principal analyst, Gareth Owen. 'The adoption of open source platforms, such as GENIVI is just one example. In this regard, the automotive industry mirrors trends in mobile'."

Back when netbooks first appeared on the market, many of them ran Linux for cost and performance reasons. At the time the only shipping version of Windows was Vista which was ill-suited for machines running early Atom processors. Microsoft actually extended the life of XP so it could be used on netbooks, but protected the notebook market by adding irrelevant licensing requirements on XP sales like limits on screen sizes and maximum memory.

Then we started hearing about a brand-new generation of ARM netbooks with much longer battery lives than Atom's can offer. Linux enthusiasts exulted that since there was no shipping version of Windows that ran on ARM processors other than the hoary CE, this gave Linux another window of opportunity in the netbook market. I don't know if MS now has a Windows 7 build that runs on ARM, or whether they needed this deal to release one, but if this means we'll be seeing netbooks with Windows 7 on ARM chips, it will block Linux from advancing in this space. For evidence, it took only a few months after the extension of the end-of-life for XP to enable Windows to dominate the netbook market in the US.

The netbook market is flourishing, by the way. Recent studies suggest that netbook revenues in 2010 will run into the $10-15 billion neighborhood and growing fast.

http://www.abiresearch.com/press/1697-As+Market+Shares+Shift,+Annual+Netbook+Shipments+Will+More+than+Double+by+2013?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AbiresearchPressReleasesFeed+(ABIResearch+Press+Releases+Feed)

http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/22/netbook-shipments-2009/

In 2006, according to analysts 58% of iPod users were thinking about buying a Zune.

http://www.abiresearch.com/products/research_brief/Consumer_Electronics_Market_Update/101

The actual survey (presumably with data, as they list a lot of tables and charts) is available for money. However, ABI won't even say how much money unless you register with them and log in.
http://www.abiresearch.com/research/1003389

No, not really. There's no indication the numbers are from last month, they may be from last quarter - before the launch of the 3G. Or they may be from last year, because they specifically mention "Shipments in 2007"

Nokia is the worlds't largest mobile phone maker, and the largest smartphone maker. Quotes: Nokia has maintained its leadership position with a 56.4% share of the 70.9 million units shipped in 2006. , Nokia itself enjoys 44.5% of the smartphone market and Nokia market share breaks 40 per cent threshold . HTC is very small, they are so small that they are not even cited in global market share reports.

1. I partially agree, the user interface of in example S60 has been buggy sometimes and it has a lot to do in the area of user friendliness, but it's not that hard to use and the newest versions like S60 v3 work much better. It should be noted however that S60 is perhaps the best smartphone platform there is now, it's quite reliable and it's quite user friendly when compared to competitors, so it's quite hard to believe that something that is still in the development could excel it or be even in level with it.

2. Development community around Symbian is huge. It includes big publicly traded companies to amateur developers. So it's not some people, it's a huge number of peoples. And hey, it's not Java, it's Dalvik, they use Java as a language, but what good is it if you don't have all the libraries. To me Dalvik is just a bastardization of Java. They could have opted for normal J2ME with extensions, but now they are in a state of limbo with it. So what does that mean? Well, you can't just pick and use J2ME if you don't first compile to Dalvik, huge set back! Huge!

3. Branding branding branding... You think that Google lets all those small mobile phone makers to use their brand? No change. When the consumer goes for shopping he/she knows few makers namely: Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Samsung and Motorola. Any device maker that wants to become recognised has to spend fortunes to marketing. And even if they had a brand name, people want phones that work and are good, just look at Windows Mobile, utter failure even they have the magic power of Windows.

4. No. If you buy your phone from the telecom operator as a part of a packet, it will be locked and probably crippled to a halt. It doesn't matter if it has Linux, all that the telecom operators have to say to manufacturers is: "Make it live Tivo so that nobody than we can change it.". You will get openness only when you buy your phone SIM -free.

5. What unnecessary tie ups?

6. No. In telecom business it's normal to be a member in almost every industry initiative, the things is that not all players join with full steam on, and from those who do, only few remain that way. When we start seeing Android devices and see what their impact in the market is we can start to look on is the alliance working or not, before that, it's just a one industry alliance sprouting paper and promises.

I'd say we don't have to worry about Unisys anymore, until I read this press release,... I guess we don't have to worry about the GIF thing no more, but you better not throw away your tin foil hat,... ;-)

Tons of auto manufacturers have been doing throttle-by-wire for years now - my 2000 VW Jetta is just one of the dozens of examples. As far as brake-by-wire goes... I've read about other high end/luxury automobiles implementing it or planning to but Mercedes-Benz was the first. Their overview of the safety features of the E-class mention this but the brakes also come on the S, SL, CLK, and the Mayback models.

However the 2004 recall that was due to a braking system defect rate of 1 in 500 cars will likely make the industry think things through quite a bit more before rushing these advances to market.

Personally I like the direct mechanical link between my foot on the brake pedal and the actuators at the discs. You can feel the road as you're braking and there is no chance for a computer failure. A mechanical failure, yes - but a mechanical failure can also occur in the electro-hydraulic brakes. The computer control just adds another possible point of failure.

But I guess in a few years, I likely won't have a choice. *sigh*