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Android remains a difficult opportunity for Google to successfully manage

Google recently announced its intention to proceed with a wireless data service. The latest spin on this decision, exemplified by an article published on the Wall Street Journal web site on March 8, 2015, takes this step as an indicator of a new, more frugal Google. But seen from a different angl...

Ira Michael Blonder

5 years ago

Rounding off some of Google’s edges makes a pretty picture, but little more

Katie Benner, a writer published on the Bloomberg View web site, presented a hypothesis about Google on January 13, 2015. She questions whether some of Google's recent features, what I would call its edges, are familiar because they are characteristic of another very large tech company - Microsof...

Ira Michael Blonder

5 years ago

Another reason why the Android segment of BYOD is problematic for enterprise IT organizations

The Wall Street Journal published an article on what appears to be a decision made by Google not to support so-called older browsers (Jelly Bean 4.3 and earlier) for Android smartphones. But Android Jelly Bean 4.3 appeared as recently as June, 2013 (less than 2 years ago). So it may be safe to as...

Ira Michael Blonder

5 years ago

Intel establishes a position in the Android tablet market

On February 19, 2002, Microsoft and Intel announced a "Wireless Development Initiative" at the 3GSM World Congress. The Congress, in 2002, was held in Cannes, France. Now, nearly 13 years later, Intel has established itself as one of the premier chip manufacturers for one segment of the mobile de...

Ira Michael Blonder

5 years ago

Why update problems for Android devices can severely hamper enterprise adoption of this mobile device operating system

Through a combination of direct experience, and a review of an editorial published just about a year ago on the Android Central website, I have concluded there is no clear method of uniformly updating mobile devices powered by the same Android operating system, but manufactured by different Andro...

Ira Michael Blonder

5 years ago

Promotional content for tablets running on Intel processors still comes up short

Intel® announced the availability of a set of 17 new CORE™ microprocessors at the CES 2015 event this week. The specs on these CPUs are impressive. Perhaps Intel OEMs can accompany the debut of these new chips with substantially more effective marketing communications than has been the ...

Ira Michael Blonder

5 years ago

Look for even more feature hype as ISVs present new features somehow failing to reach consumers as promised

In an earlier post to this blog, titled Enterprise IT ISVs Contributed to the Bloated Feature Set for PCs this writer published comments about how the very close relationship between Intel and Microsoft, which first began, one can argue, when IBM turned over the chip manufacturing pieces of the o...

Ira Michael Blonder

5 years ago

Consumers likely to maintain a healthier appetite for new PCs for the near term future

PC manufacturers, across the board, including Dell, have reported better sales results over the last several quarters. We think this trend will continue for the near-term future (meaning at least through to Q2 2015). We see four factors at work, which promise to continue to drive new PC purchases...

Ira Michael Blonder

5 years ago

Reading between the lines of Black Friday, 2014, data points, have consumers satisfied a lot of their appetite for new Apple iOS devices?

On Friday, November 28, 2014, Barrons reported on some numbers coming out of IBM on Black Friday online shopping. In an article titled Apple Makes Up Third of Black Friday Online Buying, as Wiis, Xboxes, and iPads Fly, Tiernan Ray refers to some data coming from IBM and opines on the portion of s...

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