Distilling market noise into market sense

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16/01/2013
The Xiaomi Tribe: New hope for handset makers?
Stijn Schuermans
19/12/2012
The changing landscape of app discovery
Andreas Pappas
5/12/2012
The Apple and Samsung Profit Recipe
Stijn Schuermans
10/09/2012
The Kindelization of Tablets – Part 1
Stijn Schuermans
31/07/2012
The yellow brick road of app store monetisation
Andreas Pappas
8/06/2012
Beyond Siri: Breaking down the Virtual Assistant market
Marlène Sellebråten
2/11/2011
The elusive long-tail of mobile shipments
Matos Kapetanakis
29/09/2011
Discovery kills distribution: why the web needs a new leader
Andreas Constantinou
17/04/2011
The mobile services landscape: Can OEMs compete with platform vendors?
Michael Vakulenko
31/10/2010
The Android UI Dilemma: Unify or Differentiate?
Ben Hookway
6/10/2010
30 Tablets in Q4 2010: packed train arriving at empty station
Jonathan Goldberg
27/09/2010
Windows Phone 7: Tipping the Scales of the Smartphone Market
Michael Vakulenko
26/07/2010
Remapping the handset OEM landscape: squeezed in between a rock and a hard place
Vinay Kapoor
20/07/2010
Developer Economics 2010: The Role of Networks in a Developer World
James Parton
16/07/2010
Mobile Developer Economics: The Building Blocks of Mobile Applications
Tor Björn Minde
13/07/2010
Mobile Developer Economics: Taking Applications to Market
Andreas Constantinou
5/07/2010
Mobile Developer Economics 2010: The migration of developer mindshare
Andreas Constantinou
27/06/2010
Mapping the mobile ecosystem: top-20 most connected companies
Matos Kapetanakis
3/06/2010
Lead, innovate or assemble: three choices for handset OEMs as mobile starts to look like the PC industry
Andreas Constantinou
17/05/2010
An X-ray of Mobile Software: The 11 vital organs of mobile
Morten Grauballe
10/05/2010
Breaking the 500 million barrier of mobile software
Matos Kapetanakis
25/04/2010
Wholesale Applications Community: The Operator Love Affair with Developers
Simone Cicero
16/04/2010
Is Android Evil?
Andreas Constantinou
8/04/2010
Why handset OEMs shouldn’t mess with UX and other lessons from the automotive industry
Thucydides Sigs

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