Posts Tagged ‘Android’

Carrier billing? It’s a win-win-win situation

BLOGGER: JEFF BARAK AT&T’s decision to join T-Mobile and offer carrier billing in the US for Android Market (Google’s app store) should come as no surprise. As Michal Harris noted in a blog here late last year, the service providers’ market has fragmented, with over-the-top players, niche app vendors and expanding retailers muscling in on [...]

Picking up the pieces of customer fragmentation

BLOGGER: MICHAL HARRIS Steve Jobs memorably lashed out against Google last month, saying “Android is very, very fragmented and getting more fragmented by the day,” insisting that “when selling to users who want their devices to just work, we believe integrated will trump fragmented every time.” Jobs was arguing that Apple’s closed platform approach offered [...]

How long can Apple keep its world closed?

BLOGGER: AMNON EKSTEIN So powerful is the Apple brand these days that the whole world sits up and takes notice whenever Steve Jobs does or says pretty much anything. Most announcements usually herald the arrival of their newest seriously cool product (most recently, the iPhone 4 and the iPad), or the launch of yet another [...]