Jon Peddie Blogs

Market Expansion? ISV’s hold the reins

Posted by Jon Peddie on October 31st 2010 | Permalink
Categories: Blogs, Engineering and Development
Tags: market software isv semiconductor

The major volume and/or super expensive software suppliers have had a free lunch for the past fifteen or more years. Basically making bug fixes and a few feature improvements they got performance boasts from CPU clock and pipeline improvements, plus I/O improvements, and dropping DRAM and disc drive costs with increased capacity – the ISVs have been the biggest benefactors of Moore’s law.Now they have to do something. Now they have to embrace Heterogeneous Processors (HPUs), GPU-compute, multi-threading, and parallel-processing.Having spent the last three decades trying to obtain silo dominance with proprietary and incomprehensible file formats, obnoxious, infuriating and incompatible (within…

WebOS—the short term, instant developer opportunity

Posted by Mitchell Weinstock on August 25th 2011 | Permalink
Categories: Blogs, Content Creation
Tags: market mobile hp software tablets apps

With all the discussion swirling around the sell off of the HP Tablet at $99 this week, there is a discussion point that has been overlooked. There is now a brand new business opportunity.Generally it is very hard to get developers to target devices that don’t have a fairly large install base without serious incentives beyond the token free device to work with.Developers now have an instant total available market of 500K units. Normally it would take a company like Motorola Mobility 7-12 months to reach that sell through on a single carrier focused smartphone type device. Since the number of…