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Comment on Back from Spain by Using an iPad 2 as the go-to computer | Jan Cifra

Using an iPad 2 as the go-to computer | Jan Cifra — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:37:58 +0000

[...] wrote a post about my vacation in Spain and how the iPad2 became the most important device on that trip a few [...]

Comment on HTC and the Android dilemma by Jan Cifra

Jan Cifra — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:27:00 +0000

See the problem with the incumbents is that they are still fighting handset vs handset as they did in the past with feature phones or non-smartphones. In those times you could differentiate by design of the hardware and general handset features. But today you can’t really differentiate just by that. Today the mobile space is a battle of ecosystems. The value will be captured by the ecosystem or value network owner. That is why most of the success of Android will be captured by Google and not by HTC, Motorola or Samsung. That is why Amazon can afford to sell the Kindle Fire with a loss – the value of the Kindle Fire is captured through the sale of goods throughout Amazons ecosystem. Apple captures the value of its ecosystem by pricing them into the hardware. And even Apple realizes it has to step up its ecosystem game – iCloud is a clear move towards that goal. So if I were HTC I would ask myself – can I be happy with a low margin business of just building the hardware for Google and Microsoft or do I want my own ecosystem? They are doing HTC Sense – the brand is strong so I presume they could take android and build their own ecosystem like Amazon is doing. You can already see that the vanilla Android ecosystem will be dominated by Google’s Motorola and maybe Samsung, even if Samsung is already building its own ecosystem in Bada.

Comment on HTC and the Android dilemma by Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:01:00 +0000

Okay do the Apple part for the mobile phones. On the other hand Apple can develop new features much easier than anybody else because of its wide spectrum of products and related know-how. Lower costs for differentiation clearly makes Apple hard to be beaten. The real hard question would be how the HTC can get out of it with the resources it has at the moment?

Comment on How Google got what they wanted, or why I wouldn’t write Nokia off just yet by HTC and the Android dilemma | Jan Cifra

HTC and the Android dilemma | Jan Cifra — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:33:53 +0000

[...] and the Android dilemma Posted on November 24, 2011 by Jan Cifra Tweet In June I wrote a post about the dilemma of Android smartphone manufacturers face. I said: What the incumbents that went [...]

Comment on Libya by Jan Cifra

Jan Cifra — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:32:00 +0000

I think that any country with a dictator on top is not stable in the long run – as witnessed by the examples in North Africa and the Middle East. But that is not the point of this post.

Comment on Libya by Lala

Lala — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:56:00 +0000

Who said that Libya wasn’t a stable country under Gaddafi?

Comment on Is Oil the Spice of our world? by Libya | Jan Cifra

Libya | Jan Cifra — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:19:23 +0000

[...] output of oil from Libya get up to speed. When the protests started in Egypt I wrote a post called Is Oil the Spice of our world? In it I argued that as long as the oil flowed the west did not want to be involved in any turmoil. [...]

Comment on iOS5 by Jan Cifra

Jan Cifra — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:18:00 +0000

I have to persuade the Cosmic Girl to take my 4 and I’d buy a 4S. If you’re still in NYC – by a 4S.

Comment on iOS5 by Sajfa

Sajfa — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:17:00 +0000

Nice John, myslim, ze na Vianoce idem do toho 4S.

Comment on Heroes… by Jan Cifra

Jan Cifra — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:57:00 +0000

Words to live by, aren’t day. Sad day.