How Apple Can Keep Control of the Tablet Market – BusinessWeek. GigaOM‘s Darrell Etherington believes that the way for Apple to sustain its dominance in the tablet market in response to challenges from the Kindle Fire is to offer a smaller, cheaper tablet. The case he makes – that a cheap tablet with a [...]
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Where China is creating the novel and the useful, where it wants to, and what is driving or slowing the nation’s quest to become an innovator
There is More to Tablets than Cheap vs. Dear
Posted by David Wolf on January 17, 2012
http://siliconhutong.com/2012/01/17/there-is-more-to-tablets-than-cheap-vs-dear/
Where is China’s Motorhead Messiah?
In the Hutong Trying to break delicious.com 1549 hrs. As we swing into the political season ahead of the unveiling of the 12th Five Year Plan, the question on many minds is whether (and to what extent) “indigenous innovation” is going to be at or near the top of China’s policy imperatives in the coming [...]
Posted by David Wolf on November 30, 2010
http://siliconhutong.com/2010/11/30/where-is-chinas-motorhead-messiah/
Indigenous Innovation: “How” not “If”
In the Hutong Celebrating Hump Day 1022 hrs. London-based China hand and attorney Geraldine Johns-Putra makes a rational case against the thrust of China’s indigenous innovation policy over at View to China, and in so doing opens a barrel of invertebrates. I am of two minds (as I think she is) on indigenous innovation. On [...]
Posted by David Wolf on February 24, 2010
http://siliconhutong.com/2010/02/24/indigenous-innovation-how-not-if/
Zen and the State of BYD Innovation
Starbucks Guomao 2 Tinny jazz, burnt coffee 1149 hrs. Amid all the debate about China’s supposed “lead” in green technologies, it is worthwhile reading this article from Matt Forney and Arthur Kroeber from the Wall Street Journal last fall, wherein those two China hands offer telling insights and point a course for BYD. “But the [...]
Posted by David Wolf on February 16, 2010
http://siliconhutong.com/2010/02/16/zen-and-the-state-of-byd-innovation/
Dissecting the National People’s Congress: The PLA and Independent Innovation
In the Hutong Looking for the burnout cream 1641 hrs Even the most focused minds and incisive bladders must collapse under the weight of a 15,000 word address, and apart from our hyperlinked and multitasked MTV attention-spans, we in the West lack the tolerance for protracted oratory. We think, my Lord, if Lincoln could move [...]
Posted by David Wolf on March 19, 2009
http://siliconhutong.com/2009/03/19/dissecting-the-national-peoples-congress-the-pla-and-independent-innovation/
Another Tech Iconoclast
Starbucks Pinnacle Plaza, Houshayu Village Ahh, spring 1025 hrs. Many of us non-Chinese (and a healthy percentage of Chinese returning from abroad) indulge ourselves with the conceit that we are somehow helping to build a bridge (or, really, many bridges) between China and the rest of the world. And to be fair, some of us [...]
Posted by David Wolf on March 11, 2009
http://siliconhutong.com/2009/03/11/another-tech-iconoclast/
The ARJ-21 and China’s Long, Slow Climb to the Skies
In the Hutong No place else I’d rather be 1158 hrs. Covering this year’s Zhuhai Air Show, The Economist takes a look at China’s first domestically-produced jetliner, the AVIC1 Commercial Aircraft Corporation‘s ARJ-21, and on the eve of the regional jet’s maiden test flight takes a moment to consider its commercial prospects. Their verdict: don’t [...]
Posted by David Wolf on November 20, 2008
http://siliconhutong.com/2008/11/20/the-arj-21-and-chinas-long-slow-climb-to-the-skies/
Searching for China’s Soul of Innovation
In the Hutong Peace through superior keyboards 1702 hrs. In the wake of the global financial crisis, thoughtful people are starting to think about what the U.S. is going to use as a growth engine, now that housing, stock markets, and arcane financial instruments are out as alternatives. It did not take long in these [...]
Posted by David Wolf on October 13, 2008
http://siliconhutong.com/2008/10/13/searching-for-chinas-soul-of-innovation/
Cough, Cough: Bang, Bang
Starbucks Pacific Century Plaza Noticeably fewer locals, noticeably more visitors 1355 hrs. Recreational pyrotechnics are as integral a part of Chinese holidays as gratuitous gifting, constant partying, and excessive drinking. Catastrophic factory accidents and an annual toll of those killed and wounded by fireworks have driven the government to occasional fits of regulation. Each time, [...]
Posted by David Wolf on July 8, 2008
http://siliconhutong.com/2008/07/08/cough-cough-bang-bang/
Design that Sells, Please
“China Needs Design that Sells: As the country changes from a manufacturer to a consumer nation, companies must learn how to market to a diverse public” By Patrick Whitney, BusinessWeek, April 25, 2006 Professor Whitney from the Illinois Institute of Technology makes some superb points in this op/ed piece. Among them he notes that companies have to [...]
Posted by David Wolf on June 28, 2008
http://siliconhutong.com/2008/06/28/design-that-sells-please/
Aging Population and Independent Innovation
Back in the Hutong Installing another Security Update 1738 hrs. AP is reporting that PRC’s rapidly aging population is going to end China’s role as a source of low cost labor “within the next few decades.” Which, of course, is part of why China’s leaders are pushing the economy to evolve beyond being the hands and [...]
Posted by David Wolf on December 19, 2007
http://siliconhutong.com/2007/12/19/aging-population-and-independent-innovation/
The Chinese Government and Innovation
The Carlsburg Lounge Singapore Changi International Airport 1846 hrs. Big Ed Flanagan from NBC was in the audience last week when I joined the panel on China’s Internet at AmCham’s Under the Digital Influence event, and he did a nice piece for MSNBC’s “About World” blog on censorship and gaming, where he was kind enough [...]
Posted by David Wolf on September 28, 2007
http://siliconhutong.com/2007/09/28/the-chinese-government-and-innovation/
The Next Four Game-Changing Mobile Technologies
Edwards, Cliff and Moon Ihlwan, “Upward Mobility: Ultrafast networks and whizzy features are about to turn your cellphone into – well, your right arm,” BusinessWeek, December 4, 2006 I always worry about technology when I read about it in BusinessWeek, because I feel like this is one of those signals that a given innovation has hit [...]
Posted by David Wolf on January 21, 2007
http://siliconhutong.com/2007/01/21/the-next-four-game-changing-mobile-technologies/
Pottytech: Pimped-Out Commodes
In the Hutong Waiting for Sundown 1438 hrs. While I try to avoid topics of prurient interest, from time to time a topic comes along that begs to be addressed, if for no other reason than nobody else is watching. During my recent soujourns in Japan, I was treated to many of that country’s interesting [...]
Posted by David Wolf on January 12, 2007
http://siliconhutong.com/2007/01/12/pottytech-pimped-out-commodes/
When is Innovation Indigenous
In the Hutong Charging my iPods 1755 hrs. Yesterday, I had the privilege of being a fly on the wall at a small lunch attended by representatives of some large US companies and a respected university professor who advises the government on issues pertaining to the information technology industries. As is inevitable at such meetings [...]
Posted by David Wolf on December 18, 2006
http://siliconhutong.com/2006/12/18/when-is-innovation-indigenous/
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