Nobody really cared about the software piece because it was very basic. The two questions here are: do mobile phone makers see the big picture of what happened and where this is all going and are they doing something to save their once very strong and powerful brands?īack in time when first mobile phones came to market, it was all about hardware and design.
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iPhone and Android were the ones who changed it. What started happening 2-3 years ago in the mobile phone industry absolutely redefined the entire game. This post is by Evening UST MBA student Vitaly Demin, a strategy consultant at Eames Management Group.
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So where does Microsoft fit in with their Windows Phone? Google did a great job in becoming the world’s most popular mobile operating system by getting into the race at the right time and making the system free. Android being a multi-hardware platform operating system is a different case. Apple managed to conquer the world with this device. IPhone and iOS is a unique combination of superior hardware and the most advanced mobile operating system that comes from one company. They were just another player in the game after Apple iPhone with iOS and Google Android but they decided not to come up with a different strategy for launching their product (I don’t see much sense in keeping Blackberry in the equation at this point). In October 2010 Microsoft released its new generation mobile operating system called Windows Phone. “The total is much greater than the sum of the parts”
Continue ReadingĮditors note: With the launch of the iPhone 4S today we thought it appropriate to share some insights on the mobile phone industry. The first chef was hired – he previously catered for the Grateful Dead. Yoshka, the company dog, regularly came to work with the senior vice president of operations. Page and Brin hire their first employee.ġ999: Google moves from their garage office to Palo Alto with a total of eight employees. (Perhaps googol also stands for the ultimate goal of Page and Brin in terms of identifying the value of their company.)ġ998: Google files for incorporation in California They also receive $100,000 in funding from Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim which they use to set up work space in a garage in Menlo Park. Their brainstorming resulted in the name Google – a play on words using the term googol, a mathematical term used to described the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. Here are a few historical highlights:ġ995: Larry Page and Sergey Brin begin working on a search engine called BackRub which was housed on Stanford servers.ġ997: It was decided that the name BackRub didn’t quite fit the vision of Page and Brin.
While giving you the history of Google isn’t the focus of this post, I think it is important to know a few facts about the company in order to understand how it grew to be, in my opinion, a fun company. Yahoo grew through acquisition but much of that growth was in response to the more rapid growth of a company called Google. Remember when Netscape, Buena Vista and Excite were our options for internet searches and we had to dial up to get to the internet? Then, we were introduced to the Yahoo yodeler and heard from a talking dolphin in the 2002 Superbowl ad touting the fact he learned to talk using Yahoo.
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