Touted as an upgraded version of SMS, RCS is being spearheaded by the carriers…
Tag: ecosystems
Apple can transform enterprise communications — if they do this
While enterprises are certainly (and appropriately) adopting Apple’s solutions across their internal infrastructure, they must still communicate with customers…
Why Apple should release Messages for Android
In light of last week’s news that Google is backing a next-gen version of text messaging with iMessage-like features…
Google’s ‘Chat’ is not end-to-end encrypted like Apple’s iMessage
Google has been quietly corralling every major cellphone carrier on the planet into adopting technology to replace SMS…
Why would Amazon want to get into messaging?
There’s a tendency to give Amazon.com the benefit of the doubt whenever it looks to enter any new market…
Amazon looks to go after messaging with ‘Anytime’ stand-alone app and service
Amazon’s materials claim: “Works everywhere. Chat seamlessly across desktop and mobile, iPhone or Android.”
Apple’s Messages’ blue bubble keeps me firmly on iPhone
Samsung’s Galaxy S8, like all Android phones, lacks a tiny blue-bubbled wonder: iMessage…
Messages and five other apps Apple really needs to make for Android
Android and iOS may be destined to do battle forever, but when it comes to apps…
How stickers and apps work within iOS 10’s Messages
Developers can create apps that let you share content, edit photos, play games, send payments, and collaborate…
Beyond the flair: iOS 10 turns iMessage into a platform
Apple’s big changes to Messages in iOS 10 seem mostly cosmetic: Giant emoji, full-screen fireworks, handwritten scrawls…
Why I remain unconvinced when Apple denies plans to introduce iMessage to Android
Apple’s improved iMessages system is a tent pole feature within iOS with implications across Apple Watch and the Mac…
Why Apple’s holding back Messages for Android: Hardware sales
At WWDC on Monday, Apple again declined to extend its much-loved and much-used iMessage messaging system to Android…
Apple’s new iMessage is great, but why the hell isn’t it on Android, yet?
Apple’s big messaging moves were among the biggest and most unexpected announcements…
Microsoft finally realizes that Steve Jobs was right all along
For the majority of Microsoft’s existence, they have been an OS company that provides…
Analyst: Apple Watch isn’t about sales — it’s about ‘war’
The Apple Watch release is around the corner…
Apple puts the big hurt on Samsung
Things are not looking so good for Samsung in the smartphone market…
Lacking its own OS, Samsung flounders in Apple’s formidable wake
As Samsung struggles to develop their own operating system…
Frictionless fruit: Apple offers users unmatched convenience
What Apple’s boss, Tim Cook, presented on June 2nd, at the company’s annual conference…
Apple isn’t a hardware or software company – it’s an ecosystem company
There seems to be an ongoing debate among pundits on whether Apple…
The ecosystems play is expanding, which is bullish for Apple
When I look at news and see Apple hiring physiologists and sleep experts…
Apple’s products and services best appreciated as a whole
Apple is such a large company that it’s always working on multiple projects…
Microsoft’s AppLack: Just barely half of top 100 apps are on Windows 8
Most of the top apps are still not supported by Windows 8…
Morningstar: Apple iPhone business undervalued, Android impact overstated
The stock market is undervaluing Apple’s smartphone assets…
Valuing Apple with oranges
The fact that Apple is not predictable in what it’s about to disrupt should not translate to an ignorant valuation…
The Apple ecosystem just got even stronger
Apple today at WWDC released a number of things that have made their ecosystem even stronger…
When Siri becomes a member of the family
Siri is much more than just a useful feature for Apple’s iPhone 4S…
