In May 2017 Satya Nadella made a revealing comment. “Our next phones won’t look like phones,” he said, opening the door to a return to a field in which they had failed completely with Windows Phone and that Windows 10 also tried to conquer our smartphones. It did not succeed on that occasion either, so …
Tag: Android
Big smartphones are everywhere, and Nougat’s new features make them more useful. Honeycomb was meant for tablets. The idea tried to take advantage of that new gold rush started with the iPad, but that iteration never took off. Tablets are back, but with a different perspective: now they’re trying to conquer not just the consumption but …
It’s somewhat incredible how Facetime has no clear contestant in the world of mobile video calling apps in Android. We’ve got Skype and other options, of course, but none of them has conquered Android users and here we see even much more fragmentation than on the instant messaging market. That’s what Google is trying to …
I’m currently on vacation so I’ll write less often. I’ll keep reading what’s going on thanks to Twitter and my smartphone, and yesterday I found an interesting article titled ‘Why I left my new MacBook for a $250 Chromebook‘. There are a few good arguments there to defend a platform that previously wasn’t that easy …
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 …
Chrome OS wasn’t mentioned once at yesterday’s Google I/O keynote, but there was a big update coming: Android apps will be part of that experience in a move that proves that the ‘merger’ between the two platforms was indeed a reality. Google waited until day two of its I/O developer conference to announce what might …
Paul Thurrot reflects on the convertible/detachable market: One might argue, correctly, that the iPad Pro is not exactly a full-featured productivity machine today. But the key word in that sentence is “today.” Apple will evolve the iPad Pro and improve things on the productivity side of things. But I don’t see how Microsoft or any …
Not a single mention. That’s what we had at the Build 2016 keynote from Microsoft a few minutes ago when we tried to get some news from the Windows 10 Mobile operating system. We’ve got lots of other news: the promising rise of the conversational bot (either with voice or with text), the transformation of …
Latest data from IDC suggest that convertibles will transform current tablet sales: the current sales drop this year (5.9% from 2015) will stop next year with “single-digit growth in 2017“. That growth will have a leader: Windows. Microsoft’s operating system is leading this market now, but it will do with even more strength in the next …
The Windows Bridge for Android (Project Astoria) is dead. Microsoft has announced that on a new post on the Windows blog in which they explain that apparently the feedback from developers was critical to this decision We also announced the Windows Bridge for Android (project “Astoria”) at Build last year, and some of you …