Tag Archives: Smartphone

Contact Lenses

A printed circuit board inside a mobile phone

Back this morning with a quick thought I had while reading about eMarketer‘s new study on trends in mobile. As an aside, it seems as if there isn’t anything disruptive (like the introduction of the iPhone was) in near future but that current trends will continue and accelerate.
But that’s not what struck me. One thing I noticed was the term “smart phone“. That’s part of what, in my opinion, has caused the acceptance and use by markets of this channel to have been delayed until recently: thinking about these things as phones. Continue reading

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The Kid on the Bike

Image representing Apple as depicted in CrunchBase
Image via CrunchBase

I know I usually write about food on Fridays, but I think I”ll wait on my food post until next week. Instead, I want to give you a couple of things that this press statement brought to mind: Continue reading

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All You Can Eat

Friend or Foe :-D
Image by Quang Minh (YILKA) via Flickr

One of the most discussed areas in the digital world is mobile.   I’d put the fuss about it right up there with conversations about how Twitter is going to make money or if Facebook is going to crowdsource its Terms of Service.
The mobile conversations tend to center around when mobile ads, and mobile video especially, are going to take off.  It’s always around the corner.  Well, I think that time has come but maybe not for the reasons you expect. Continue reading

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