Google Glass: Condensed, simple, and handy new technology that will change our ways of living.
How will this change our lives? Simple, the google glass will listen to almost all commands just like Apple’s Siri. It would be helpful with taking pictures, video streaming, surfing the web, and even texting other people. This will be a product that will change our lives.
The Google glass is still ways from making into our market, but it will be available soon, as of right now there are many people who are using google glass as a beta version. The opinion of this glass is great and people are starting to like it more and more. This new technology as said above ” Will change our daily lives” because the simpleness of the whole system is such great convenient. It will be a game changer for the market as well, because it seems like the Google glass will be a monopoly market. Why? think about it Google glass is a one of its kind and if other companies started copying it, it would be just copying Google’s idea. A monopoly is the industry itself and because of that Google will make some profit off Google glass.
Google and Motorola are partnering with each other to come up with a brand new technological idea that people haven’t really try to expand into the market.
Project ARA is developing a free, open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphone. A phone that could hypothetically be truly everlasting for years for people to use. A brief summary of Project ARA, The design for Project ARA consists of what they call an endoskeleton and modules. The endoskeleton is the structural frame that holds all the modules in place. A module can be anything, from a new application processor to a new display or keyboard, an extra battery, or something that people haven’t come up with yet.
On November, 13 / 2013 Cole came in to talk to us about entrepreneurship and I found Project ARA and entrepreneurship related to each other. Entrepreneurship was about the person who stepped up to take the idea taking all the risks to try make a profit off it. I am sure there were some people who had this idea as well, but Motorola and Google were the first ones to make an idea a reality.
As said above, “A phone that could hypothetically be truly everlasting for years for people to use.” I think is the best way to describe this smartphone. I do think if the costs were not exaggerated I think that Google and Motorola could really be number one in the whole smartphone market in the near future. The fact about this brand new idea is that, it was Motorola and Google trying to make this happen. Motorola, when the smartphones came out was declining in its phones sales because they had a big share in the whole market with the flip phones and slide phones.
I see this becoming a massive hit or a huge failure because, of the price range for each part and phone. It could be the next new Iphone 2g, or become an android that nobody sees an interest in.
Below is a link to a video which summarizes how Project ARA works
The South Korean company LG has announced “The start of OLED flexible screen phones”
As shown in the picture above LG has already displayed their curved Televisions which are going to be soon implanted in our smartphones. LG has said ” The advantages of this tech is the screen is bendable and unbreakable.” Now that sounds pretty amazing for some of us because we all know a lot of people drop their phones and have their screens all broken. Now we won’t have to worry about dropping our cellphones because of this technology.
This innovation and invention that LG and Samsung has been working on will be a huge change in the market system. People will start changing phones to these because we all love new technology. It will be just like when touch screen phones came out, where the market has changed everything to be smartphones instead of 2g phones. It may have a side effect as no one knows how effective it will be.
(Research firm IHS Display predicts the global flexible display industry will see dramatic growth in the coming years, becoming a $1.5 billion (£900 million) market by 2016 and exceeding $10 billion by 2019.)
This reading shows how effective the OLED curved screens will be in the later years
This will allow the “Forgotten” LG company, which has been falling behind in the smartphone race to catch up and even exceed other company’s.
After watching this video made me realize how things were going to change in the business market. The whole feel of OLED curve would be a realistic and even eye catching to all audiences.
The Chromebook was first notified in May 2011 and started shipping out in June 2011. The chromebook were first made by Acer inc. and Samsung. It was not a great sale as they first started selling it. Then Leveno, Hewlett packet, and Google started pitching in on it in early 2013. The chromebook is primarily sold online by Google themselves and the other company’s that are related to the chromebook. As the new laptop became more popular as prices were low, the schools were the top consumers that would buy these laptops as a bunch.
Now, then these laptops were at first reviewed really bad by the first users. They said that the chromebooks were useless and even pricey for a laptop that did not work on par with the other laptops such as macbook and samsung laptops. They had keyboard features that people weren’t used to. As of right now Google has improved their features on the chromebook which got really nice reviews by users.
For some people Google chrome is a web browser and for some google chrome is a operating system. Google is smart by having it’s own app store implanted in the chromebook, and that people are starting to pick the chromebook because of this function that they have put in to it. Us, the consumers are familar with apps on our smartphones, macs, and tablets. Another amazing thing is that the chromebook is irregularly cheap compared to the new laptops that are coming out! The new chromebook is suppose to be coming out in November 2013 and they are $300! This is a eye opener because the tablets that currently on the market are easily over 300 dollars.
As a company that is elastic will really have demand for more of these fast, up to date technology. As we learned in class this would be in between of Cost leadership strategy and Differentiation strategy. Google is trying to get ahead by having low costs and even unique attributions in the chromebook.
Netflix gave a solid earnings report, but why is the stock price falling down instead of going up? Netflix (NFLX) reported strong earnings per share of $0.49 or 345% higher than the prior-year quarter’s $0.11 per share. They met 2nd quarter 2013 expectations on revenues and beat expectations on earnings per share. Compared to the same quarter last year, revenue expanded significantly. As I said, “Why is the stock price falling instead of going up?” Well from showings Netflix has lost about 800,000 subscribers as prices steadily grew in. The outlook suggests Netflix has been unable to contain a subscriber over a price increase and aborted plan to force subscribers into separate streaming and DVD services.
In class we learnt about customer relationships and how it is put into two different categories Physical and Mobile. Netflix has been too careless of taking care of their customers, which led to downfall of subscribers. Because Netflix is more of a internet wise company sure it would be harder to control their subscriber count on a level they would like. If they could just maintain a healthy customer service with a affordable price Netflix will have no problem having higher earning reports.
In the year 2012, Samsung was investigated for using illegal labor practices in their China manufacturers. The allegations of this case were that the employees at this manufacturer were in some cases working 16-hour days with one day off per month, and they were also found hiring employees under the legal working age of 16 years of age.
According to Friedman’s theory of individualism, the only obligation that the business has is to maximize profit for the owner and stockholders. Samsung’s manufacturer in China was trying to cut their costs and maximize their profit by hiring younger employees and overusing overtime. This would be deemed ethical by individualists, but they used illegal methods to maximize profit.
This shows arrogance, which is not fair for these young people who have to make a living without the help of their parents. People should not be using other people to make profits, but help out each other because we are bound to learn from anyone, at anytime.
