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June 14, 2021 · Carolina Milanesi

Google Workspace Emphasizes How Work Gets Done, Not Where

Google Workspace had undergone a transformation since October 2020 when G Suite was rebranded to Google Workspace, and a series of skews were released to address the enterprise market. In February, Workspace was brought to the education market, and at Google I/O, the team launched Smart Canvas, a ne

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June 8, 2021 · Carolina Milanesi

Three Big Themes at Apple’s WWDC

I am not sure if it’s the lack of down time for stage walk-ons or that Apple has got this digital event thing down to a science, but the pace of this year Apple’s Developer Conference (WWDC) was incredible. The overall impact of the announcements across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS will take

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May 26, 2021 · Ben Bajarin

The Tech Industry Build Out Cycle

One of the more interesting conversations to be happening around the tech industry currently is what kind of a cycle we are in? In the last few years, I’ve noticed an interesting tension that emerged because, as a whole, the tech industry has just come off a period of significant rapid invention and

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May 20, 2021 · Carolina Milanesi

Google and Samsung Get Closer To The Benefit of WearOS

There were plenty of rumors leading up to Google I/O that we might see the next generation of Samsung’s Galaxy Watch models embrace Google’s wearable platform Wear OS. The rumors turned out to be quite right. The next Galaxy Watch will be running Wear OS, but the news is actually much more significa

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May 7, 2021 · Tim Bajarin

A New Era for Creative Strategies

Creative Strategies was founded in 1969 by Larry Wells and David Norman. They were both at SRI and saw a need for a dedicated tech market research firm. Together they created what, at that time, was one of the first real tech market research firms in the world that studied the impact of tech on…

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April 30, 2021 · Carolina Milanesi

Samsung Is Finally Serious About PCs. Intel and Microsoft Seem Delighted

In the first Galaxy Unpacked event ever dedicated to introducing new laptops, Samsung’s Head of Mobile Communications Business, Dr. TM Roh, presented the Galaxy Book Pro series. The Galaxy Book Pro and the Galaxy Book Pro 360 run on the 11th Intel Core processor and leverage a deep integration betwe

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April 29, 2021 · Ben Bajarin

Surprised by Apple

The only thing that keeps surprising me about Apple is that people keep being surprised by their ability to keep delivering great quarterly revenues. But, of course, I know the point I’m making is more of an industry and investor one since most of Apple’s customers pay no attention to their earnings

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April 25, 2021 · Ben Bajarin

Intel’s Unleashes a Turnaround

Yesterday, Intel announced a series of efforts that may one day be looked back at as foundational for their turnaround. Despite Intel being in a strong market position in many of the areas they compete in, the leadership zeal Intel once brought to the technology industry had been waning, and when it

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April 4, 2021 · Ben Bajarin

Enterprise Workplace Epiphanies

The last year has led to a number of what I call “COVID Epiphanies” by employees and employers. One of the main concerns I’ve heard was what the impact COVID would have to corporate culture going forward and how much more in control of their destiny employees will become. We have never seen such a…

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March 30, 2021 · Ben Bajarin

AirPods Pro Score 828 points on the Delight Scale

Apple released AirPods Pro too much fanfare. We applied the Delight Scale to AirPods Pro and found customers were overwhelmingly happy with the experience and features. Condimentum et non penatibus sagittis ac duis mus enim a parturient ac faucibus convallis a ullamcorper parturient arcu a est poten

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