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Revenues and Profits of Tech Giants – Classic Disruptive Innovation

March 21, 2013 — Leave a comment

As we can see from the infographic from Staff.com, Apple’s introduction of the iPhone 3GS in 2008 corresponds to the explosive growth of their revenue, profit and market capitalization. In late 2010 and early 2011 we also see a drop in Microsoft’s profit which corrisponds with the release of the iPad and what many are referring to as the beginning of the Post PC era (review several post on this topic). With the lack of success in the release of Windows 8 and poor sales of Microsoft’s Surface tablet we may see and even greater decline in the future for Microsoft.

Unfortunately, the infographic does not include the most disrupted company Research in Motion (RIM), which is now called Blackberry. Back in 2007 Blackberry dominated the smartphone market and just six years later many are wondering if the company will survive despite the release of their long awaited new OS and phones. Another perspective that the infographic doesn’t reveal is the way that Android is now beginning to disrupt Apple. It will be exciting to watch how the whole mobile industry which didn’t even exist six years ago will evolve over the next few years.

Staff infograph revenue profit tech giants

Source: Staff.com

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Facebook Pushes Plot To Kill Your “Phone”

March 6, 2013 — Leave a comment
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/04/facebook-voip/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Post%20Blast%20%28sai%29%3A%20BII%20MOBILE%20INSIGHTS%3A%20Android%20Will%20Account%20For%2058%20Percent%20Of%20App%20Downloads%20In%202013&utm_source=Triggermail&utm_term=Mobile%20Insights

Facebook Pushes Plot To Kill Your “Phone” App By Giving Messenger For Android VoIP In Canada | TechCrunch via kwout

Josh Constine from Tech Crunch ponders the impact:

… if Facebook could minimize the voice minutes these users have to buy by offering VoIP that’s free beyond the cost of data usage? Suddenly Facebook goes from a nice way to connect with friends to a critical communication service that saves them money.

Anything that has the potential of breaking the monopolistic control of the carriers here in Canada not only has my voie it is something that I will use and promote.

On another note, this is another reason why Android is the platform that will see significant innovative gains in unique areas. There are simply more Android users who don’t want to spend the money that they typical IOS user is willing to spend so the necessity to create a more cost effective solution is much more pressing for Android open source community then it is for the Apple and its walled garden IOS.

I do need to note, Apple’s walled garden IOS is still currently the best mobile infrastructure and it is still the phone I recommend to most average users but the grass is really starting to look greener on the other side of the wall.

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Google’s New Products

June 28, 2012 — Leave a comment
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-io-product-announcements-2012-6?utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=10%20Things%20In%20Tech%20You%20Need%20To%20Know&utm_campaign=Post%20Blast%20%28sai%29%3A%2010%20Things%20You%20Need%20To%20Know%20This%20Morning#

Google I/O Product Announcements – Business Insider via kwout

The Google tablet has finally arrived and it is a 7 inch device running Android Jelly Bean 4.1. At $199 US it hits a price point well below Apple’s iPad, but will a 7 inch device be able to really compete with the 10 inch iPad? Time will tell. Google also announced the Nexus Q which is media device that you connect to your TV–Google TV? Perhaps the most exciting announcement was Google Glass which is a glasses based video and audio recording system that allows you to record what you see.

Google announced many more products and services which should challenge Apple to up their game. A Google vs Apple world is nothing anyone imagined 10 or perhaps even 5 years ago. Once Google gets their Motorola purchase sorted out we should really start to see the competition heat up. Healthy competition between Google and Apple means we all win.

Read the full product announcement summary…

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Google Motorola Mobility Deal has Closed

May 23, 2012 — Leave a comment
http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2012/05/weve-acquired-motorola-mobility.html

We’ve acquired Motorola Mobility | Official Google Blog via kwout

Google’s purchase of Motorola not only provides an opportunity for the developers of Android to unify the operating system on a single platform they represent a very strong competitor to Apple. While these two factors alone are significant perhaps even more significant is Larry Page’s recognition of the short and long term impact of technology by pointing the fact that:

Many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine, and the impact of that transition will be profound–as will the ability to just tap and pay with your phone.

Google’s purchase of Motorola is just one more very significant building block in the Post-PC era.

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Pearson and Google combine forces to offer a FREE Learning Management System

October 14, 2011 — Leave a comment
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/pearson-and-google-jump-into-learning-management-systems/33636?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education via kwout

I have been waiting for this official announcement for many months. While I was still at Abilene Christian University (ACU) early this past year I learned about this new system when ACU was informed that Perason and Google were combining forces and ACU was chosen to be a test site. At the time of this early trial the system that is now called OpenClass didn’t even have a name. Now that my colleagues at ACU are no longer bound by a non disclosure agreement I look forward to quizzing them about their experience with this new system.

Having another option to Blackboard and Moodle means we can perhaps see some true innovation in the course/learning management space. If OpenClass works as well as the rest of the Google Apps for Education suite we are all winners because the more competition there is to Blackboard (who controls over 80% of the course management space) the more choice and flexibility educators will have.

The only downside to this is the fact that OpenClass will more than likely have an initial impact on Moodle which is a free open source platform many institutions are using rather than Blackboard. While Moodle is free it really doesn’t offer much of an alternative to Blackboard because it simply mirrors Blackboards functionality and it requires a significant amount of time, effort and resources to maintain. With Google hosting OpenClass the maintenance and support issues of hosting an CMS/LMS go away.

Time will tell if OpenClass will the same postive impact on Higher Ed that Google Apps for Education have had. I know we (Concordia) will be exploring this options as soon as we can.

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