A few articles related to the move to a decade defined by digital data.
a second article on Digital Ad targeting
Came across an older article from the McKinsey Quarterly on the danger of data overload on the effectiveness of executives.
Some stats on global DTV from UK-based Digital TV Research. A few of the highlights:
- DTV is now just under 50 percent of global homes
- China is now the largest DTV market (22 percent of the world)
- Pay TV is in 50+ percent of global homes
At their I/O conference this week, Google announced the release of their forthcoming Asus Nexus 7 Tablet which is available for pre-sale now and will ship mid-July. The forthcoming release has been well covered today so I’ll just highlight a few interesting points and discuss the potential motivation for launching a tablet device.
Yesterday, NPD released a glimpse of Ultrabook sales year-to-date. A few things to point out in the release:
- window notebook PC sales fell 17 percent through the first 5 months of the year
- Ultrabooks captured 11 percent of the $700+ notebook PC market through the first five months of the year
- Likley because of ultrabooks, sales of $700+ notebook PCs were only down 3% year-to-date
- again likely because of ultrabooks, the share of sales from the $700+ notebook segment increased from about 12 percent in 2011 to nearly 14 percent in 2012
- Ultrabook selling prices have averaged $927 over the first five months of 2012
- Ultrabook selling prices dipped to $885 for the first time in May – suggesting to me that it is getting both more competitive and more discerning consumers are now entering the market. As the market attracts more mass market consumers they will have a lower average buying price than the early adopter segment
- The average market price for all Windows computers is $510 and that has risen by $13 since the same period in 2011
I’m an avid hiker, camper, and general outdoorsman. I think over the next few years we are going to see more outdoors-focused tech gear. While I haven’t had the chance to demo it yet, one device I think I could really like is the BioLite CampStove. I like the idea of going on multi-day backpacking trips over the next few years but I also like the idea of having my tech devices with me for reading material, trail maps, GPS, etc. Battery power is a concern and BioLite’s CampStove is well positioned to solve that problem.
As we make the second digital transition into a decade defined by data, an important facet of this transition are the devices that will ultimately capture the data. Debi Stack, director of industry consulting, telecom, media, entertainment, sports & hospitality at Dell recently suggested data gathered from tablets and other second-screen devices will grow 650% over the next five years.
As was reported by Wired, the New York Times, and the Verge, Google’s forthcoming Nexus Q is manufactured in the United States. In the last few months we’ve definitely been hearing more about an return increase in manufacturing in the US. The most interesting piece to me highlights the flexibility and versatility of manufacturing – Google choose a Wisconsin rifle-maker to create the die-cast zinc base.
Home Media Magazine put together a great list of those influencing the move to digital content.
An interesting infographic on the amount of digital data we create each minute.