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SlashData Team
Sep 13, 20114 min read
A game of ecosystems: Crashing the Android party
[In a game of ecosystems, it it possible to bend the rules? Research Director Andreas Constantinou examines the few technologies that can...


SlashData Team
Apr 17, 20114 min read
The mobile services landscape: Can OEMs compete with platform vendors?
[Growing competition and price pressures push handset makers to seek new ways to differentiate. This increasingly means services....


SlashData Team
Jan 9, 20116 min read
RIM: a leap ahead in user experience, but can it execute?
[RIM’s acquisition of UI firm TAT marked the largest mobile software M&A of 2010. Research Director Andreas Constantinou explains why the...


SlashData Team
Nov 15, 20105 min read
BlackBerry: A Dual Personality Disorder?
[RIM is torn between two very different market segments: Enterprise mobile messaging and text-addicted consumers. Amidst troubling signs...


SlashData Team
Sep 27, 20107 min read
Windows Phone 7: Tipping the Scales of the Smartphone Market
[Windows Phone 7 has the potential to redraw the smartphone competitive landscape and accelerate the evolution of the mobile value-chain....


SlashData Team
Jul 26, 20107 min read
Remapping the handset OEM landscape: squeezed in between a rock and a hard place
[In a race for profits, the mobile industry finds itself squeezed between vertically integrated players like Apple and horizontal players...


SlashData Team
Jul 20, 20106 min read
Developer Economics 2010: The Role of Networks in a Developer World
[In the final part of our series on our latest research – Mobile Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond – Telefonica’s James Parton...


SlashData Team
Jul 16, 20104 min read
Mobile Developer Economics: The Building Blocks of Mobile Applications
[In part 3 of the 4-part series on our latest research – Mobile Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond – guest author Tor Björn Minde takes...


SlashData Team
Jul 13, 201010 min read
Mobile Developer Economics: Taking Applications to Market
[In part 2 of the 4-part series on our latest research – Mobile Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond – Andreas Constantinou looks at how...


SlashData Team
Jul 5, 20105 min read
Mobile Developer Economics 2010: The migration of developer mindshare
[In part 1 of the 4-part series on our latest research – Mobile Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond – Andreas Constantinou looks at the...


SlashData Team
Jun 3, 20104 min read
Lead, innovate or assemble: three choices for handset OEMs as mobile starts to look like the PC indu
[Android has triggered more changes to the mobile industry than anyone had imagined. Research Director, Andreas Constantinou looks at the...


SlashData Team
May 17, 201010 min read
An X-ray of Mobile Software: The 11 vital organs of mobile
[Sales of mobile phones remain healthy, but can the same be said of the software designed for them? Guest author Morten Grauballe offers...

SlashData Team
Mar 8, 20106 min read
The Wintel future for mobile: a wake up call for network operators
[The PC-esque commodisation of the mobile industry has been prophesied many times before, but never before has it become so lucidly...


SlashData Team
Feb 26, 20104 min read
Demolition Derby in Devices: The roller-coaster ride is on
[The economic realities will lead to a roller-coaster ride that will shake up the mobile industry. Guest blogger Richard Kramer talks...


SlashData Team
Jan 24, 20108 min read
Behind the Smartphone Craze: redrawing the map of mobile platforms
[Thought Android and iPhone are taking over the world? Think again. The device platforms map is more fragmented than ever, while the...
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