The Bite Interactive Podcast

Joseph E. Farrell and Brant DeBow discuss the big stories in mobile for the week ending 1/9.

Joe and Brant discuss Apple's announcement of the iPhone 5c and 5s as well as other top stories from the last 2 weeks.

Brant and Joe recap the latest from our linkblog - bites.biteinteractive.com

We return to the land of podcasting to discuss the latest funny Apple lawsuits, the death of Blackberry and more!

Microsoft came out of nowhere this week to reveal what might be the most exciting and innovative tablet since the iPad.

With WWDC days away the rumors and excitement is spinning around what Apple will release. Brant and Joe discuss what’s definitely coming and what’s not. They examine the likelihood and impact of Apple adding 175 pixels to the iPhone 5’s height including how these pixels could be used, the UX impact and consequences to legacy apps. We transition to the long anticipated and much speculated Apple TV announcement where Brant explains XXXX’s claim that Apple TV is running iOS. Brant and Joe talk about the development opportunities and how this new platform would not only compete directly with on home gaming consoles but could be Apple’s move to disrupt broadcast especially cable industry.

Brant opens our show discussing OpenSignalMaps’ report that their app was downloaded onto nearly 4,000 unique Android devices over the course of six months. Joe and Brant discuss the unique challenges for developing, testing and supporting apps in this environment and the methods Bite uses to mitigate risk and while maintaining quality

Brant and Joe discuss the staggering speed by which users upgraded to 5.1.1. They jump to rumors about the new iOS maps app where Joe embarks on a short and potentially overzelous rant on Maps' 'utter' failings and his need to purchase a $50 turn-by-turn nab app. Joe than examines the merits of a Siri API while Brant explores constraints that may hold this release back. We end the show with a discussion on the business of Android including the stark profit differences that Apple and Google make per device sold, what job an Android phone is hired to do and the effect of Apple offering lower priced iPhones. 

Brant and Joe discussed RIM's PR stunt and how it came off as weird, cheap and desperate. Brant had a field day with their big reveal website while Joe seemed genuinely upset by RIM's use of a screaming mob. They moved into discussing comparing iOS versus Android OS version penetration analyzing why iOS has such fast adoption.   Joe and Brant end the show discussing the massive profits Apple reported from China in Q1 & Q2 and the potential near-term and long term profits for Apple in the Chinese market. Show Links Apple’s Chinese iPhone Sales Revenue in China reached a record $7.9 billion, which is up threefold year-over-year. That brings Apple’s revenues in the country to $12.4 billion for the first half of the fiscal year. That’s nearly what Apple made in all of the last fiscal year when it made $13.3 billion in China. Tim Cook: “For China — the sky’s the limit there. I’ve never seen so many people rise into the middle class who aspire to buy Apple products. It’s quickly become #2 on our list of top revenue countries. Android's demise leads to a total Apple monopoly (oh noes!) Android vs iOS upgrade stats: "The current adoption rate hits a significant milestone. It took iOS just 15 days to get the same percentage of users on the latest OS version as are currently on any single version of Android."

Brant and Joe take an in-depth look at the cultural, leadership, business and technical decisions that brought Research in Motion from its heights as an innovator and industry leader trading at $130 to 'feature parity', open-letters, non-innovative tech and a stock at $13 and declining. We wrap the show by predicting RIM's fate a year from now.

Joe and Brant discuss Google Glass (http://bit.ly/Ho7sZg) comparing it to AT&T's 1993 'You Will' (http://bit.ly/K4DkmU) and Apple's Navigator ad campaigns (http://bit.ly/Ehah8) discussing why companies release high gloss product  videos promoting products that don't exist. And Joe declares shenanigans on Google's ad serving algorithms. Joe highlights his recent lecture at UC San Marco on Clayton Christensen's Disruptive Innovation theory. We wrap discussing two articles Brant read taking counter points on if Apple could maintain it 34%+ hardware margins and 20%+ quarterly growth.

In this episode we discuss the logistics of Apple's iPhone and iPad 2-year production cycle as a way to amortize cost and the use of a large human workforce to allow the flexibility needed for major innovations every 24 months.We explore the Kindle Fire and Amazon as the only tablet and company currently positioned to compete with Apple.Brant and Joe wrack our brains wondering what additional jobs the new iPad isn't good enough at and if the next gen iPad is therefore at risk of commoditization.We shift to Tim Cook's work under Steve Jobs of buying up worldwide hardware component capacity to lock out competitors. And how the iPad is additive and not cannibalizing the computer market.We wrap with a discussion on how Siri is the next revolutionary user interface that keeps the iPhone from being good enough.