Author Archives: Jon Michael Bishop

The death of the European mobile dream

Another week, another two seismic shifts in the mobile market. Firstly, Nokia launch their new range of last chance saloon Windows Phone smartphones and Sony buys up Ericsson’s share of Sony-Ericsson.

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The splintering of the mobile industry

The splintering mobile industry is good new for BallmerSince the launch of the G1 in 2008, it looked like the mobile device industry was a two horse race with iOS and Android, uh-humm, streaking ahead of everyone else. This all changed with two big industry announcements: Google buying Motorola’s mobility division and Amazon launching the Kindle Fire. In two foul drops of a press release, my dreams of a world where all devices worked together seamlessly regardless of the operating system or manufacturer were shattered as I was reminded that there is no section covering ‘playing nicely together’ in the capitalist’s handbook. Read more »