Amir Efrati on The Information: And to hedge its bets against Google’s control of Android, Huawei is also secretly developing an alternative mobile operating system, according to three people briefed about the project. Android forks do exist, but not all companies can offer a compelling alternative. The problem lies in Android Apps and Services: although …
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The new Amazon Kindle (2016) is thinner, lighter, has ads -with Amazon’s “Special Offers” and most interesting, has Bluetooth audio support (for blind readers). But it doesn’t have physical page flipping buttons, and resolution is still its weak point against its eldest brother, the Kindle Paperwhite. This e-book reader is pretty much invincible if you want …
I’m sure many of you would like to see Apple hit the ground with a wallop. This is what happens when you’re so big: there are the ones who love you (very much) and the ones who hate you (very much). I don’t wish harm on anybody, but I must recognize that I made an evil chuckle when Apple …
According to The Information, Amazon is coming back to the smartphone arena. Their first try was a disaster in nearly every possible way -too many gimmicks, too pricey for example- but now they’re taking a far more conservative approach. Instead of building a phone themselves, Amazon is going to launch several devices from third parties …
In the coming weeks, Amazon expects to release a smaller, portable version of its voice-activated tabletop Echo speaker, building off the device’s surprise success. In 2014 Amazon surprised us with its Fire TV device: you could push a button at the top of the remote to active a universal voice-search function. In late 2014 there …
The audio streaming services should be pretty worried about the launch of YouTube Music, a streaming service that goes beyond what Google Play Music offers, but also what Spotify, Rdio, Pandora, or Apple Music -to name a few- offer right now. And that’s because for a similar price you are not getting just the audio, …
Amazon.com Inc. will stop selling media-streaming devices from Google Inc. and Apple Inc. that aren’t easily compatible with its video service, the latest example of the company using its clout to promote products that fit with its own retailing strategy. It’s unfair for users that take advantage of Amazon great service, but it’s a …
This weekend The New York Times published an incendiary article about work culture at Amazon. It wasn’t much of a surprise, really: anyone who has read “The Everything Store”, by Brad Stone, already knew what can you find inside Amazon. Those horror aren’t new, but when several former employees showed their hands and some as the NYT …