Andrew Orlowski

Collected Journalism

Tag: mobile

  • Why Android won’t worry RIM and Apple

    Why Android won’t worry RIM and Apple

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    My US colleagues are regulars on John C Dvorak’s excellent Cranky Geeks and a highlight of the show. I was recently intrigued to hear the opinion from Vulture West Coast (in Episode 232) that RIM was toast, and Android would triumph. Now, bearing in mind that I’ve been wrong about mobile more than I’ve been wrong about anything else – quite epically and unheroically wrong – I beg to differ.

    Apple will continue to rule the roost, dictating terms and … Read More

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  • Rescuing Nokia’s Ovi: a plan

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Ovi means door in Finnish

    It must be frustrating to sketch out a long-term technology roadmap in great depth, and see it come to fruition… only to goof on your own execution. But to do so repeatedly – as Nokia has – points to something seriously wrong.

    Nokia spent more than a decade preparing for Tuesday this week, when it finally launched its own worldwide, all-phones application store. It correctly anticipated a software market for smartphones back in the mid-1990s, when it was choosing the … Read More

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  • Apple and the Gentlemen from the Networks (or, why it pays to turn up Really, Really Late)

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    the iPhoneThis week Apple threw the kitchen sink at its iPhone/Touch software stack, removing most of the most irritating nuisances at a stroke. It’s a stunning achievement.

    So Apple now finds itself where everyone else in the mobile handset business wanted to be 15 years ago. Large companies full of clever people devoted years of planning and expenditure to fail to get here. If the iPhone continues to flourish (see below for the many obstacles en route) – then both rival … Read More

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  • Rob Lewis on MusicStation

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    MusicStation, the service that aims to give unlimited mobile access to music worldwide for a small weekly fee, finally went live today.

    The success of the venture, from British start-up Omnifone, will tell us a lot about whether punters are prepared to pay for digital music, rather than scoop it up for free. MusicStation is a Rhapsody-like service customised for mobiles: there are no extra data charges over the £1.99 weekly subscription, which goes on your mobile bill, and “file … Read More

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  • Why we hate the modern mobile phone

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Brendon McLean wrote to me with such a succinct summary of mobile phone angst, I invited him to elaborate. Read the result, How the mobile phone biz lost the plot, here.… Read More

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  • Can Big Telco do Perestroika?

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    While the CTIA Wireless jamboree took place in Florida this week, European telcos were drawn in a huddle in London at one of the most intriguing events of the telecoms calendar.

    The theme at STL’s twice-yearly Telco 2.0 Brainstorm is familiar: “How to making money in an IP-based world”. But it has an added piquancy now.

    And there’s plenty at stake. The part of AT&T formerly known as Cingular, the cellular division, makes more revenue than Google and Intel combined … Read More

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