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Month: November 2014

A bump on the road to consumer tech heaven worth a mention

Anyone with a keen interest in consumer computer technology should quickly learn to study, carefully, the gap between what a manufacturer claims about a product and what is actually experienced. The point of the exercise is to develop a sober view about the likely performance of products they may...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Don’t look to Facebook at Work to change much in the world of enterprise social, but enterprise recruiting could be a different story

Facebook At Work, should it be released in early 2015, isn't likely to make a dramatic appearance on the market for enterprise social computing solutions. It's not as if consumers of this kind of computing solution have few choices. But the market is constrained and, perhaps, for a set of good re...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Android’s penetration of enterprise computing markets is constrained by a combination of limited upgrade options and too many distributions

It's very late in 2014, but a lot of enterprise computing consumers still depend on a central support function. An enormous volume of content has been written on the topic of the consumerization of business computing, and how the role of technology leader has changed hands from the typical enterp...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Consumers should not be expected to deliver repeat buying opportunities for mobile operating systems in process

Android may be the leader in the mobile operating system popularity contest, but it shouldn't take rooting a tablet or smart phone to migrate from JellyBean to KitKat or, most recently, Lollipop. Nevertheless, the only process this writer can find to upgrade a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2.1 from An...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Working with Windows Preview, tile apps and desktop applications get along better than is the case with Windows 8.1

I've been working with Windows Preview for about a month. One of my computers, a laptop seeing otherwise low usage looked to be a perfect candidate for the preview, so I decided to use it to participate in the preview effort. The laptop is at build 9860. The pace of Windows Update is "slow". I li...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Comments on Google’s new InBox email reader

For better or worse, email remains the primary method computer users exploit for asynchronous communication. So Google's release of a new reader application, InBox, stimulated my interest. I received an invitation to add the application and thought it might be helpful for readers to provide some ...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Seamless access to all other personally important apps should be a mandatory feature of any high value personal assistant app

The differences I've noted between Microsoft's Cortana, and Google's competitive Google Now and OK Google, which I cited in the prior two posts to this blog and are important for me, are emblematic of my need for a Personal Assistant (PA) application to seamlessly interact with like applications ...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Continuing a Comparison of Cortana and OK Google for queries likely to be popular with mobile users

Getting driving directions is likely to be a very common need for mobile computing. I used Cortana and OK Google to put together driving directions with very different results. I picked a location forty miles from my home and simply asked each personal assistant to provide me with driving directi...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Comments on Cortana and Google Now (OK Google)

After a wait of seven months (five beyond an original expectation), I finally received an update to Windows Phone 8.1 for my Lumia 925 (T-Mobile is the cellular carrier) during the first week of November, 2014. Cortana, Microsoft's "personal assistant" was included, despite rumors I had heard to ...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Any meaningful feature gap between high end and low end smartphones has been obliterated

Consumer markets for smartphones no longer present any gap, whatsoever, between high end and low end entrants as regard high value features. With this gap obliterated, industry players will do well to implement product marketing strategies with a proven effectiveness in pure commodity markets or ...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago