Exynos-based Windows laptop could open the Arm floodgates
Samsung uniquely makes its flagship smartphones available with two different SoCs. American buyers get the flavor with the latest leading Qualcomm processor while those in Korea and elsewhere get the one with the leading-edge Exynos processor, Samsung’s homegrown processor...
Read more
Cloud gaming, not Fortnite, poses the longer-term app challenge for Apple
Over at ZDNet, Ross Rubin explains why cloud gaming services provide a bigger challenge to Apple’s business model than even a very popular game than Fortnite.
Read more
Google’s moves could help, then hurt, Apple’s app store battle
Epic’s efforts to coerce Apple to allow it to use alternative forms of payments and even establish its own store on iOS have gotten off…
The...
Read more
The Prisoner as a metaphor for the information economy
1984 is often held up as the science fiction work that best exemplifies the dystopian surveillance state. (You could certainly do worse.) But as I’ve been taking in a few episodes of the 1967 British TV classic The Prisoner,...
Read more
Microsoft store closures a loss for Xbox Series X
If you were planning to take along your Olympus camera on your Segway to visit the Microsoft Store, it’s not been your week. Microsoft Stores were often the subject of derision compared to the robust traffic of the Apple...
Read more