I’ve taken inspirational liberties to the picture from Ball Don’t Lie post.
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ARM Forecast for 2014
Bookmarking an interesting forecast from ARM’s 2009 annual report. Interest is not in the least due to me being a shareholder. Even though they’re at nearly 10x sales today, the business is headed in the right direction – forecasting 29 billion opportunities for ARM based chips in 2014, while they’re only at 26% saturation with [...]
Smartphone War Breakdown
Breakdown by Makers and OSes. No insight to offer, just for perspective. Everybody can use perspective. Handset Makers Nokia 21.5M in Q1 RIM 10.6M in Q1 Apple 8.75M in Q1 HTC 3.3M inQ1 Motorola 2.3M in Q1 Samsung ~2M in Q1 LG ~1.5M in Q1 http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=16482&news=Phone+Trends+Nokia+Apple+LG+Motorola+Q1+2010 http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/04/30/htc-expects-smartphone-shipment-increase-on-back-of-android/ http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&tkr=SMSN:LI&sid=acHz_G4Vx.xU Operating Systems Symbian RIM Apple [...]
Working with Design People
I think design concepts are interesting and getting to work in this space is pretty cool, but in the back of my mind I suspect there’s more than a few people in this industry like the guy in this video below, explaining design. Conceptually, he’s pretty far out there and first word that comes to [...]
Flower Bird Market
花鸟市场s are scattered all around Shanghai, and they’re where locals shop to get flowers, plants, garden decorations, and small pets (I assume, implied by the name even though I didn’t stick around long enough to check). Overheard from a foreign couple: Guy: …well, 1 you’re with me, 2 we’re foreigners, and 3 you have blond [...]
Tinie Tempah – Pass Out
Check out the synth, sounds like sampling from an 8-bit video game (somewhere between Kid Icarus and Dragon Quest?). Bonus sounds come 3:15 into the track, where I ask why DnB ever went away.
HTC Resolution to the Apple Lawsuit
A lot has already been said about the proxy battle against Google via HTC, brought on by Apple. And there’s several prologues to this building feud, most recently the NYT. And I just read another recent article [betanews.com] to offer a different view, which sparked my idea of how to make it really ugly for [...]
Youku Roundup Feb’10
Just a couple of videos which might be no big deal to your average internet user, but it’s new to me in the-land-of-no-youtube-facebook-and-hundreds-of-other-blog-sites. Recently heard La Roux for the first time even though she’s released Bulletproof [and In For The Kill] nearly a year ago, I blame my news starved situation. They’re are typical [...]
Nexus One Concept and Design
Linked a Google-made video from Youku, since the referring site [Gizmodo] was linking from GFW blocked Youtube vid. The video doesn’t really provide any insightful design ideas, but it may be interesting to those in the process of buying one or already own one. Kind of like the opposite of buyer’s remorse, I always like [...]
MSFT Stock Valuation on Trefis
I was playing with different scenarios on Trefis to see if I can divine any insight to Microsoft’s stock price, in anticipation of their Q4 earnings announcement after market close this Thursday. They sold lots of copies of Win7 and Office 2007, including a copy to me (first time I’ve ever paid retail price for [...]
