Nick Jones

Yesterday morning here at APAC Symposium my colleague Robin Simpson and I debated whether Apple was (or could ever become) an enterprise vendor. This was a light hearted session where I took the position that Apple products are suitable only for price insensitive fashion victims and Robin claimed that Apple was a serious enterprise vendor.
Whether [...]

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Our Q3 mobile handset market numbers have been released and there are few surprises. Smartphone sales are growing, over 12% up on the same period last year despite the recession, with Apple overtaking RIM in Western Europe. That’s impressive, but it will be more of a shock to RIM when Apple overtake them in the [...]

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Edwin Land is reputed to have said “marketing is what you do when your product is no good”, and while I might not go that far, I certainly feel that marketing is something you do when your product is undifferentiated. This is an observation, not malice; I’m hardly guilt-free because I used to work for [...]

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As you may have noticed I’m a bit of a netbook and MID sceptic, and not only because I still haven’t found a manbag in which to carry one. As Gary Woodill pointed out in a comment on my blog last week one of the big problems with netbooks is that they’re under-specified, under-powered and [...]

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I’m off to Germany tonight for a few days to attend Nokia World in Stuttgart so I’ll try to post some comments on some of the announcements and devices I see there. In the meantime a few thoughts on events of the last few days.
The EU invests EUR 18M in LTE-A. A few days ago [...]

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Microsoft just made a really interesting announcement about a new mobile technology / service called OneApp. OneApp comes from Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential (UP) group which looks at the needs of the billions of people who aren’t at the top of the social pyramid earning lots of money in mature markets.
OneApp is both a platform and a [...]

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Today Microsoft announced they’ll work with Nokia to bring key communication and collaboration tools to the E series devices and later other Nokia Symbian handsets. This includes Office mobile, (Word, Powerpoint, Excel and OneNote), OCS IM and presence, mobile access to Sharepoint portals and SystemCentre device management. My colleagues will be writing a more detailed [...]

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The world is abuzz with rumours of a new Apple tablet. Despite (or probably because of) the fact no-one has seen it we have every shade of opinion out there from those claiming it will change the world to people who have already labelled it the iFlop. I have no inside information on what Apple [...]

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RIM wanted to make a bid on Nortel’s CDMA and LTE wireless networks division but were prevented from doing so for various procedural reasons. A shame, because I’d have imagined the Canadian government would have been delighted to keep jobs and technology in Canada. However, if we ignore the politics for a moment, this announcement [...]

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Do you want the good news or the bad news? We just had two sets of handset manufacturer financials today, many observers reported them both as terrible, but in reality they couldn’t be more different.
Nokia’s devices and services business is doing OK. Not great, but OK. Even in the current miserable economic climate they’re holding [...]

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