Tech Review | Why Qualcomm $QCOM Seeks China Ban of $AAPL iPhones

Tech Review (TR 2017-10-14)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech news with commentary, analysis and opinion: Features • 1) Why Qualcomm $QCOM Seeks Ban in China of Apple $AAPL iPhones, 2) Jamie Dimon Says 'Stupid' Bitcoin Investors Will Pay the Price, 3) Investing: End of the Week--Stocks Close Off Record Highs, How to Minimize Investment Returns, 5) ICYMI Tech News.

1) Why Qualcomm $QCOM Seeks Ban in China of Apple $AAPL iPhones:

Bloomberg.com video above published Oct 13, 2017: Qualcomm Inc. filed lawsuits in China seeking to ban the sale and manufacture of iPhones in the country, the chipmaker’s biggest shot at Apple Inc. so far in a sprawling and bitter legal fight. Bloomberg's Ian King reports on "Bloomberg Markets."

2) Jamie Dimon Says 'Stupid' Bitcoin Investors Will Pay the Price

Bloomberg.com video published Oct 13, 2017: JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon comments on bitcoin during a panel discussion at the annual meeting of the Institute of International Finance in Washington.

3) Investing

End of the Week: Stocks close off record highs as earnings season kicks into full gear | cnbc.com Oct 13, 2017: "The major indexes hit intraday records before closing lower as earnings season kicked into full gear, with JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup reporting results. Wall Street also set its sights on economic data, with the release of unemployment and inflation data sets."

How to Minimize Investment Returns: "Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac’s talents didn’t extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, “I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.” If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the fourth law of motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases ... To get very specific, the Dow increased from 65.73 to 11,497.12 in the 20th century, and that amounts to a gain of 5.3 percent compounded annually. (Investors would also have received dividends, of course.) To achieve an equal rate of gain in the 21st century, the Dow will have to rise by Dec. 31, 2099, to — brace yourself — precisely 2,011,011.23. But I’m willing to settle for 2,000,000; six years into this century, the Dow has gained not at all."--Warren Buffett, Berkshire’s Annual Report (p18) February 28, 2006.

4) ICYMI Tech News:

• These Are The People Behind Million-Dollar Sales Of Companies That Sell On Amazon | buzzfeed.com: some companies make millions by brokering deals selling third party e-commerce shops on Amazon to others.
• Amazon to Add 120,000 Holiday Workers, Same as Last Year | WSJ.com: $AMZN plans to retain some of the workers as permanent employees. See also Amazon prepares to break into [digital] ad industry | TheHill.com.

• The Real Reason Twitter Restricted Rose McGowan's Account Instead Of Just Deleting One Tweet:  Twitter's Trust and Safety Team doesn't have the ability to remove or block individual tweets.
• Windows Phone is now officially dead: A sad tale of what might have been | ArsTechnica.com

• How a homemade tool helped North Korea's missile program | Reuters.com: Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machine.
• Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia | Technology | TheGuardian.com. 
• Why is it so hard to ditch Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook? "From 2013 to 2017, the combined market capitalisation of Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google increased in size by the GDP of Russia – $1.4 trillion. And the power of The Four keeps on growing"--wired.co.uk [Editor's note: Thankfully, I am "entangled" with just 2 of the 4, how about you?]

-- John Poole, Editor, Domain Mondo  

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Worldwide Smartphone Marketshare by Geography, OS, 2015-2019

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Graphic above: 2015-2019 Marketshares IDC Forecast. China, US, Europe decrease, India and "Rest of the World" increase (in terms of percentage of global total marketshare).

IDC Worldwide Smartphone Forecast by OS – Shipments, Market Share, Year-Over-Year Growth, and 5-Year CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) (shipments in millions):

Region	2015* Shipment Volumes	2015* Market Share	2015* YoY Growth	2019* Shipment Volumes	2019* Market Share	2019* YoY Growth	5 year CAGR
Android	1,161.1	81.2%	9.5%	1,538.1	82.6%	4.8%	7.7%
iOS	226.0	15.8%	17.3%	263.4	14.1%	3.1%	6.5%
Windows Phone	31.3	2.2%	-10.2%	43.6	2.3%	11.4%	4.5%
Others	11.3	0.8%	-16.8%	17.1	0.9%	6.5%	4.7%
TOTAL	1,429.8	100.0%	9.8%	1,862.3	100.0%	4.7%	7.4%

*Forecast data; source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, December 2, 2015.
Note: Apple's (iOS) OS global marketshare declines (2015-2019) from 15.8% to 14.1%.

Worldwide Smartphone Market Will See the First Single-Digit Growth Year on Record, According to IDC (press release): "Android's market share is expected to grow slightly from 81% in 2015 to 82% over the forecast period [2015-2019]. Despite numerous attempts by "alternative platforms" to enter the market, none have proved successful. IDC believes the proliferation of the core Android platform will continue with huge efforts being put forth by companies like Cyanogen and Xiaomi to differentiate themselves from their competitors. Given its global footprint and application/services ecosystem, IDC fully expects some form of Android to hold a dominant share of the smartphone OS space for the foreseeable future."

See also:

• DoubleClick Advertiser Blog: "eMarketer estimates that mobile will account for 72% of U.S. digital ad spend by 2019 and Google's tech-forward target audience spends more than 74% of its time on mobile."
• 8 facts that explain Google's complex situation with Chrome OS | CIO: "This explainer puts Android and the Chrome OS into perspective and shows why these Linux derivatives will both come together and remain separate."
• Why iOS and Android will soon become obsolete | CIO: "The market is eventually going to move to one product that scales from a smartphone to a PC. Columnist Rob Enderle says it doesn’t appear that either Apple or Google will dominate this coming shift."

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