| Online: | |
| Visits: | |
| Stories: |
| Story Views | |
| Now: | |
| Last Hour: | |
| Last 24 Hours: | |
| Total: | |
Analyse Asia Podcast: From Alphabet to Uber
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 9:05
% of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents.
From http://www.tech-thoughts.net/
On the first anniversary of Bernard Leong’s Analyse Asia podcast, we discussed the implications of Google’s (or Alphabet’s) recent corporate restructuring announcement, Apple Watch sales, upcoming Apple product announcements, the eventual fate of Samsung and, finally, Uber’s financials and ballooning valuation.
Interesting notes and links (with timestamps included):
- Reflecting on Analyse Asia’s first year and looking ahead to the next [0:37]
- Google to be restructured as a subsidiary under a new holding company, Alphabet [11:27]
- How does this affect Google as an organization? [11:37]
- What was the reason for this move? Was it just about transparency or were there other motivations at plat as well? Use disruption theory as a frame of reference. [15:34]
- Debunking the Google A/B analogy. [17:52]
- No, Alphabet is not the Berkshire Hathaway of technology. [24:26]
- What are the difficulties in predicting Apple Watch sales? How did you come up with your estimates? [27:15]
- Is it too early to call the Apple Watch a flop? [33:17]
- Should Apple open Apple Watch to Android users? [35:11]
- What products do you expect Apple to announce this fall? [37:26]
- Will the looming collapse of Chinese equity markets affect Apple’s growth in the country? [39:40]
- A year later, their smartphone sales are still tanking. Can they turn it around? (Ref: Samsung’s Challenging Turnaround by Jan Dawson) [41:47]
- Uber’s valuation has raced past its fundamentals (as of 2014). [43:03]
- Can Uber disrupt logistics? [46:00]
Go to http://www.tech-thoughts.net/ for more analysis on the mobile industry
Source: http://www.tech-thoughts.net/2015/08/analyse-asia-podcast-from-alphabet-to_26.html
