🟢 Is Citroën's AMI leapfrogging Tesla's master plan?
On the surface, the success of the Citroën AMI as a light electric car is endearing. But despite its promises it might be a cautionary tale for the rest of us in the industry.
What is a platform? Hardware edition
Following up on yesterday's article about Apple WWDC announcements, an obvious – and yet amazing – new possibility is to use an iPhone as a webcam for a Mac.
Think about this: How many other platforms do we know that can interoperate software and hardware as seamlessly as that? Apple
🟢 Apple discretely unveils Apple cars; not the Apple Car
After yesterday Apple's WWDC 2022 annual keynote, it's difficult to zoom out from the myriad of software tweaks and products announcement (only a new Mac, really). Let's deep dive into what might have been discretely unveiled. Apple cars.
🟢 Can Google get AR off the ground?
Google announced a new AR glasses prototype. What to make of it?
Whether you deal with VR (virtual reality) or AR (augmented reality) you need to solve three big problems at the same time:
* Find a real market problem to solve at scale.
* Build a hardware layer that is powerful
The war for coffee is still raging
After two years of a global pandemic, quite a few retail businesses show their
weaknesses. As Warren Buffet famously said, you find out who is swimming naked
when the tide goes out. Selling coffee is one of these markets that is heavily
shaken.
After more than ten years of trying
The obvious EV bottleneck
I presented last year how the systemic bottleneck analysis
[https://www.icopilots.com/market-predictions-with-systemic-bottleneck-analysis/]
was one of the key tools I've been using for years when discussing the future of
any market.
As a quick refresher: a systemic bottleneck is a turn point event that is
building up
Amazon Whole Food: it's not about the store dummy
Only a few weeks ago closed most of its physical store's tryouts
[https://www.icopilots.com/amazon-power-move/], but for Amazon Fresh and Whole
Food. At the time, we discussed both the scale at which Amazon operates and
their lust for automation.
Right on cue, Amazon is pushing for