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Apple and the iCloud

I said a while ago that the days when a significant electronics category can be launched without an ‘ecosystem’ look numbered. The master of building an ecosystem to exploit and develop hardware has probably been Apple with its iPod/iTunes, iPhone/iPad/apps approach to the market. This week, Apple announced the iCloud, an attempt to unify these … Read more

Double Dips & Zombie Consumers

I was musing today, while writing my editorial for Display Monitor, about the general state of the economy globally and the potential for a ‘double dip’.  It seems to me (and I’m not an economist!), that what we are currently seeing is a problem with the timing of different parts of the economic system.  To … Read more

OLEDs, Oxides and Risk

  One of the overall impressions of the SID this year was that there were few OLEDs on view. As I mention in the main report, published in Display Monitor, I think this is because Samsung is clearly in the lead in developments in this market, but is concerned about giving away too much information … Read more

Monitor Sales up by 10% or down by 54% depending where you are

The monitor market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) is currently reflecting the very different economic fortunes of the region, according to figures from European display research specialist, Meko. While sales in the MEA region were up by 10% year on year, Germany, the largest single country market was down by 13% and … Read more

Display Events calendar on Meko site

Meko has launched a calendar of Display Industry events on its website. Covering forthcoming events in Europe and the rest of the world, it gives a quick overview of what’s coming up for anyone interested in TV, cinema, FPDs, OLEDs, LEDs, digital signage and general technology. Event reports for many of these conferences and shows … Read more

The end of geography for TV

I managed a day at the Anga Cable show in Germany last week. That was interesting, especially as it highlighted both the clear trend for HbbTV, the Franco/German OTT system for TV, and it also showed how the technology change of the internet coming to TV is causing real problems for the existing TV business … Read more

Connected TV sales grow faster than 3D at end of 2010

Demand for TV sets continued to grow in the last quarter of 2010, with a total of 24 million TV sets shipped to EMEA; an increase of 5% year on year. Most of the growth was from Eastern Europe and the MEA region according to Market Research specialist, Meko.   The key product areas showing … Read more

Excitement

Looking at the news this week, and catching up with the technology news especially, I realised that the display industry is starting to get really interesting again. Since I started in the business, there was promise of flat panels and then a battle between LCD and all the ‘pretenders’ to the crown of top display. … Read more