How technology (invention) shapes the market's future (innovation).
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With Airbnb, Uber is probably now the last surviving hyper-scale startup of the 2010s. But unlike Airbnb, Uber is not in good shape. On paper, Uber dominates ride-sharing worldwide with a massive footprint of over +100 million users and a dominant market share wherever it operates. Uber amounts to about
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Cracking the luxury market in China for western companies has always been an uphill battle. Hyundai Takes a Second Run at China With Luxury Genesis BrandHyundai Motor Co. is far from the top automobile brand of choice in China but its luxury-car division is seeking to change all that with
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Google is politely killing its gaming business known as Stadia. This is only one venture among many that Google had to switch off or ‘demote’ as corporate lingo would say. Report: Google Quietly Ditching StadiaThe service has been demoted within Google and will instead power experiences for other companiesKotakuThe A.
The U.S. Congress is only now begrudgingly considering what to do with self-driving cars. Don’t smile too much. Most of you are aware that deciding who is responsible in case of a fatal collision is not a piece of cake (lines of code won’t repay the families’
The untold story of the metaverse idea that Facebook (erm, “Meta”) seems to be so desperate to reboot is that, like Google, their revenues depend on ads quasi-exclusively. Facebook and Google’s Ad Addiction Can’t Last ForeverFacebook’s first-ever drop in users is an ominous sign for a business
As a quick end-of-the-year note, I was delighted by the 30 min documentary produced by The Verge on the smartphone early-stage market in the early nineties. It is a fantastic template to understand quite a few things: * How inventors are rarely innovators. * Why early actors mostly can’t see the
The principle of technology disruption, or what I prefer to describe more explicitly as death by Moore’s law, is not just catchy headlines. It’s real, it’s ongoing, and it’s still vastly misunderstood. In 2017, I was teasing executives attending my trainings or keynotes on innovation with
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I was preparing an article just a few days ago on why “tech” startups don’t care about challenging problems and why we instead have pizza-delivery tech. Then the coronavirus hit us, and while I was regrouping with our customers and partners, I hadn’t had the time to edit
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But even if we pretend that technology is inherently neutral (which is not), we need to face that tech has facilitated so many terrible outcomes these last ten years. From climate change to the end of privacy as we knew it, saying that “tech is neutral” is a weird form
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A quick reminder that my thought-provoking question from 2017: When Star Wars will be shot on iPhone? [https://www.icopilots.com/predicting-when-star-wars-will-be-shot-with-iphones/] is less and less provoking. This is now mainstream Apple marketing, where “shooting” means a movie and now just DSLR-quality pictures: We Are still a few years before
Imagine your company has one of the most advanced big data platform you can think of in your market. Imagine you have access to an unparalleled level of insights and forecasts about who your customers are, what they want, and how they think. Here comes the question I’d like
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Phil SCHILLER discussing Apple AirPods: > At the surface level, it’s an incredibly simple product. But the reality is it’s actually an incredibly complex product to make. Each AirPod really is its own computer, running software and hardware. And those two computers need to deliver this very clear