Staring with IOS 15 Apple has been providing, without much fanfare, the possibility of identifying objects in a photo (matching faces pre-dated this) and the same is possible in smartphones with the Android engine. Over the past two years “Visual Look up” (this is how Apple calls the functionality) has …
Read More »Cars are becoming smartphones with wheels
I took the title of this post from an article published by the French newspaper Les Echos, on January 6th, 2023: “Comment les automobiles sont devenues des smartphones sur roues”. The article is nice, pointing out some figures like;: an average modern car embeds some 1,500 “chips” (puces in French) …
Read More »Smartphones showing the way to the future of personal computers
The new Apple M1 chip has been around for a few months now and the feedback on its performance are so impressive that quite a few people are asking how is that possible. A low cast Mac Mini is now offering better performance than last year Mac Pro that had …
Read More »Crashing Android with a photo….
Look at the photo of this dramatic sunset. You might feel a bit uneasy by the atmosphere that it creates but I am pretty sure you will never worry about your smartphone being scared to the point of panicking and crashing! As a matter of fact this is what happened …
Read More »We hold onto our smartphone for much longer…
I remember, over ten years ago, in Seoul talking to Samsung marketing and learning that one of the reason to generate so many new smartphones models in short period of time was the willingness of the South Korean market to get “the newest” (Samsung has delivered over 1200 types of …
Read More »2020: are Super Apps taking off?
As we turn into a new year and a new decade there are plenty of technology foresight, both short and long term. If you missed the IEEE Computer Society 12 tech trends for 2020 you can find them here. If you want to explore more, different trends just google for …
Read More »Platforms, present and future IX
6. Device/product platforms: I stated in the first post in this series that a technical platform support processing, storage and communications. Now, let’s look at a smartphone. Doesn’t it support processing, storage and communications? Of course it does (and it does much more, like sensing). We often underestimate the power of …
Read More »Digital Transformation – Digital Platforms characteristics
I started my discussion on Digital Platforms considering the one created by smartphones because it was easy to point out the basic characteristics of a Digital Platform: it needs to have storage capabilities it needs to have processing capabilities it needs to have embedded connectivity it needs to be open to …
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