When Steve Jobs launched the iPhone in 2007, the device was cool, but it was just a nice piece of hardware with a fancy OS. What really changed the market happened later with the introduction of standard API sets enabling developers to build applications.
iOS and Android…
This week I came across three interesting IoT projects, and, even though they are totally different from each other, they present the same challenges: data storage. This isn’t news, but things are a bit more complicated than they appear.
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Last week I took a trip to the US, attending VMworld first, and some meetings in Silicon Valley later. I spent most of my time meeting with partners, influencers, and end users. One of the topics I frequently discussed was IoT, followed by edge computing, with cloud computing…
A few weeks ago a presentation from Peter Levin (a partner at the Andreesen Horowitz VC firm) anticipated the next wave of compute “after the cloud”: when we’ll be going towards a de-centralized world with powerful networks of smart devices that are able to de-centralize data…
