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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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Sep 27, 2017

Google Pulling YouTube from Echo Show Signals Asymmetrical Value

Cross Posted from Tech Narratives

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Sep 21, 2017

Evaluating Google’s HTC Deal

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Aug 21, 2017

A Reminder About Android Adoption Rates

And how long it’ll take Oreo to be eclipsed (sorry)

Version 8 of Android, which we now know is code-named Oreo, was officially released today through the Android Open Source Project, a year almost to…

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Oct 5, 2016

Google’s Schizophrenic Pixel Positioning

This is my second post about Google’s event this week, and there will likely be more. The…

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Oct 4, 2016

Google’s Big Strategy Shift

There’s so much to say about today’s Google hardware event, and it’s tempting to pour it all into this one…

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Sep 28, 2016

Google, Andromeda, Mythology and Hubris

Next week, Google is expected to unveil a new operating system named Andromeda, which in some ways combines the existing Android and ChromeOS operating systems. The choice of name is interesting — Andromeda is a figure in Greek mythology, and it’s worth…

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Sep 2, 2016

The Death of Project Ara Signals a Return to Adult Supervision at Google under Ruth Porat

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Aug 22, 2016

Nougat Launch Highlights Android’s Slow Rollout

Google today released Android 7, codenamed Nougat. What this means in practical terms is that owners of recent Nexus devices can download and install the new version immediately, while the vast majority of Android device owners have to wait…

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Aug 4, 2016

Google’s Increasing Reliance on its Own Sites

After a couple of weeks on vacation, I’m still playing catchup with some of the tech earnings reports that came out while I was gone. Today, I’m tackling an interesting aspect of Alphabet’s earnings, which is the increasing dominance of ad revenue…

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Apr 22, 2016

EU Android follow-up

I wanted to post a quick update to my post earlier in the week about the EU’s Android antitrust action, to cover a specific topic in a bit more depth, namely the issue of the EU’s narrow definition of the relevant market. We also discussed the EU’s action against Google in depth this week on…