The GSM, WCDMA, and LTE royalties on cellular phones will continue to grow for the next few years, but are starting to flatten out. GSM handset royalties are already playing a much less significant role for royalty revenues, with GSM/WCDMA/LTE handset royalties becoming increasingly significant.
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An October survey of 25 school technology directors by the Piper Jaffray research group shows that Apple has 100% of the school tablet market. The study found that:
° Apple has a virtual lock on the school tablet market. One hundred percent of the schools represented (serving about 30,000 students) used iPads. Zero percent of respondents deployed Google (GOOG) Android tablets (at the time of the survey, Amazon’s (AMZN) Kindle Fire had been announced but hadn’t shipped).
° A third of the schools represented expected to eventually deploy one tablet per child; one of them already did.
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Next week a class-action civil lawsuit will be heard in San Jose, California, to determine if Apple, Google, Apple, Lucasfilm, Adobe, Intel, and Intuit conspired to eliminate competition for skilled labor. with a “no poach” agreement.
Read MoreRecently, Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, took issue with the idea that the Android mobile operating system is fragmented, arguing that it’s a differentiation between devices rather than a fragmentation. If that’s indeed the case, then let’s have a new naming system; more on that in a moment.
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By Andrew Eisner
We’re just back from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the consumer electronics extravaganza in Las Vegas where we saw some amazing new gadgets and gear including new TVs, tablets, smartphones and new high tech automobiles. Much of the technology we saw may not be available for some time (if at all) but we did see some trends that will sooner or later make many of your high tech possessions obsolete.
Future TVs will be sharper
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