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Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Jun 5, 2015

Apple and Privacy

Apple’s privacy stance has been in the news again this week, mostly because of a speech Tim Cook gave to an event in Washington, which honored him for his (and Apple’s) commitment to privacy and encryption.

Apple’s admirable but over-played privacy…

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Jun 3, 2015

Expanding Apple services on non-Apple devices

A few months back, I wrote this piece which talked among other things about why Apple doesn’t make most of its services available on third-party devices. The basic argument can be summed up in this quote from that piece:

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Jun 29, 2015

Quick thoughts: Microsoft’s ad business

Given today’s news about Microsoft selling its display ad business to AOL and in turn replacing Google as the search advertising provider for AOL, I thought I’d quickly revisit some of my earlier analysis on Microsoft’s ad business.

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Jun 23, 2015

BlackBerry’s future comes into focus

BlackBerry reported earnings today, and as ever so much of the analysis in the mainstream news media is glossing over some of the most important details. To my mind, the most important thing in the earnings was the revenue the company announced from Software and…

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Jun 24, 2015

Some thoughts on Apple’s Beats 1 DJs

For the Beyond Devices podcast last week (embedded at the bottom of this post), we discussed Apple’s content-focused announcements from WWDC, including Apple Music. For our Question of the Week (a regular feature), we discussed one specific element of the Music…

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Jun 30, 2015

Apple Music’s other financial advantage

This is something I’ve though about quite a bit, and even wrote about briefly as part of a much longer piece ahead of the launch of Apple Music, but I feel like no-one is really talking about. But it’s potentially quite significant for the economics of Apple…

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Jun 5, 2015

Introducing the Beyond Devices Podcast

If you’re a regular reader of the Beyond Devices blog, first of all thank you! I appreciate your interest, and hope you find reading what I post here useful and interesting. I also regularly appear with other members of the Techpinions team on our weekly…

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Jun 4, 2015

DISH T-Mobile makes sense except for broadband

The rumors of a DISH-T-Mobile combination make a lot of sense. This is the comment I sent to several reporters last night:

This deal makes perfect sense. Given the increasing consolidation in the market, T-Mobile and DISH…

Jan Dawson in Beyond Devices

Jun 9, 2015

Ten quick thoughts on WWDC

Yesterday was a busy day, as these keynote days always are — several hours of waiting around with very little to do, followed by several hours of frenetic activity both during and immediately after the keynote, as I prepare a quick comment for reporters, talk to some reporters, and…

May 2015

July 2015

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A blog about consumer technology from Jan Dawson and Jackdaw Research. Original home at www.beyonddevic.es. Jan Dawson is an analyst and consultant who helps consumer technology companies understand market trends and devise strategies for success.

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