Apple turned around its India story in 2019, by doubling its market share to 2%. At the Apple Q1 2020 earnings call for the quarter ending December 28, 2019, Apple confirmed its success story with a quarterly revenue of $ 91.8 Bn, an increase of 9% from the year ago. With respect to India, Apple …
At the 53rd annual Consumer Electronics Show, or CES 2020 held at Las Vegas, there were more than 4,500 exhibitors and 170,000 attendees from more than 160 countries. As a bellwether of new technology trends sweeping the consumer technology landscape, the CES this year was high on concepts. AI was everywhere ‘connecting everything’, and in …
At the CES 2020, Lenovo leveraged its experience in foldable displays to bring forth a new foldable PC. The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold went through more than four years of development and iterations. The X1 Fold will likely release in 2H 2020. Does a foldable PC merit attention? Does it make sense in an enterprise …
The winter of 2019-20 has been unusually extreme and chilly in New Delhi, India. Unlike the pleasant winters of previous years, the weather this year has been brutal, and staying warm has been a challenge. For someone who is always on the move, dressing-up in layers and layers of warm clothing and jackets is a …
As a mobile-first nation, the India OTT market provides enough head room for growth. American as well as Chinese streaming players are looking to strike it big in India. While Netflix continues to invest heavily in Made-in-India for India programming, it is under pressure from the likes of Hotstar and others. So, how would the …
It’s that time of year again. The annual Consumer Electronics Show, or CES 2020, will debut in Las Vegas in the first week of January. While this is the largest expo of its kind, and may be intimidating in terms of its scale, the CES remains a bellwether on new technology trends sweeping the consumer …
Xiaomi, the No.1 smartphone brand in India with 26% market share in Q3 2019, is forging ahead with its diversification moves towards services, with a new offering, named Mi Credit, launched earlier this week that aims at simplifying access to credit for the youth. The new offering follows on the heels of the Mi Pay, …
Facebook, the world’s largest social media platform, is renewing its focus on payments, with a significant and unified push into payments. The move to launch Facebook Pay comes despite its previous failed attempts at cryptocurrency (read Calibra), and is yet reflective of Mark Zuckerberg’s thinking to monetize the vast social network by focusing on transactions …
At the Samsung Developer Conference 2019 for developers held at San Jose on October 29-30, 2019, Samsung powerfully articulated its value propositions for developers, whether it be through the wide device ecosystem offerings for consumers; or the enterprise device offerings, that come coupled with the secure Knox platform. ‘Connected Living’ was the central theme of …
Apple on Wednesday, October 30, 2019, reported its Q4 2019 earnings that beat analyst expectations, and continued to show that it is on the right path with its pivot to services, overshadowing iPhones that were down 9% year-over-year. For Q4 2019, Apple had forecasted revenue between $61-$64Bn, and in actual, achieved revenue of $64Bn and …