Two years ago Nokia had a global smartphone market share of around 29%. That number has fallen to around 3% today, despite the smartphone market more than doubling over the same period. Nokia’s CEO, Stephen Elop, bet the family silver on a Windows-based strategy and gave it two years to pay off. Well, two years … Continue reading Nokia next in line for an about-turn?
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What if Apple worked in ICT4D? Reflections on the possible
“Two weeks ago, I was staying at a working dairy farm sixty kilometers north of Bogotá, Colombia. I was fiddling around with my iPad when one of the kids that worked in the stables came up to me and started staring at it. He couldn’t have been more than six years old, and I’d bet … Continue reading What if Apple worked in ICT4D? Reflections on the possible
The inspiration at the heart of innovation
I couldn’t figure out last night, when I woke at 2am, why Twitter was over capacity. A few minutes later I got the answer. Steve Jobs had passed away. A quick visit to the BBC website confirmed the news. Ashton Kutcher (of all people) seemed to sum the mood up well: Steve Jobs gave an … Continue reading The inspiration at the heart of innovation
Differentiation and the non-changing face of innovation
Last week at the Rutberg Summit in London – an event dominated by senior mobile industry executives – one of the more interesting topics for me was differentiation. How will the new Microsoft/Nokia relationship impact the mobile OS ecosystem? What does the proliferation of Android mean to the many handset manufacturers bundling it with their … Continue reading Differentiation and the non-changing face of innovation
Open or not open? That is the question.
For many of the open source “purists” in the ICT4D field, there is only one (relatively rigid) way to run an open source project. For others – usually those who have had to actually work through the many challenges and complexities of open sourcing a piece of software – things are rarely that clear-cut. Being … Continue reading Open or not open? That is the question.
Did someone really get sacked for this?
Funny photo from “The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs” website. Taken in an AT&T store. Just goes to show what you get when you scratch the surface!
Time for specialisation?
If you cast your mind back a few years you’d remember whole batches of small IT start-ups developing and marketing bunches of IT-based tools and diagnostics utilities. Looking back now some of these seem a little silly – a utility to compress data or defrag your system, another to help undelete files, others to search … Continue reading Time for specialisation?