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Gene and Doug discuss the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Google, and why historical precedents suggest Google will weather the storm, with a big fine, and little changes to its business.

It’s been a long road for Augmented Reality (AR). In the summer of 2017, Tim Cook predicted that AR “is one of those huge things that we’ll look back at and marvel.” For the casual observer, AR has fallen short of that target.…

Today, CEOs from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google spent five hours testifying virtually before the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee. Executives faced questions related to the power their companies have over a wide array of issues including fair competition, the digital…

We publish our annual predictions around New Year’s and, per tradition, do a mid-year check-in in July. Here’s how our predictions for 2020 are tracking: 1. Apple will be the best performing FAANG stock in 2020 (by Gene Munster) Mid-year…

Partly motivated by necessity and partly by conviction, Apple assumed a leadership role early on in the emergence of the COVID-19 crisis. Apple’s response has included, among other things: Retail store closings around the world handled with obvious thought and care…

As the health impact of the coronavirus continues to mount, the economic impact is increasingly apparent. The lives of the people affected by the virus are the primary concern, but understanding its impact on the global economy is also an…

We recently asked the leading digital assistants, Google Assistant, Siri, and Alexa, 800 questions each. Google Assistant was able to correctly answer 93% of them vs. Siri at 83% and Alexa at 80%. Each platform saw improvements across the board…

Google Stadia and Microsoft’s xCloud gaming services are coming later this year. These are major events for how games will be distributed and played in the future. To get a better sense of consumer interest in game streaming, we surveyed…

Apple will be the best performing FAANG stock in 2019 As of the close on July 2nd, Apple is up 29%, Google 6%, Facebook 43%, Amazon 26%, and Netflix 41%. Apple sits in the middle of the pack, but we…

WWDC and Google I/O set the direction for developers for the upcoming year and give insight to the trends Apple and Google are actively moving forward. The developer conference keynotes are the newsmakers but are only one event in a…

Lost in the breadth of this year’s WWDC announcements was an update to CarPlay. That’s to be expected, given just under 1 minute of the 136-minute keynote and only 1 of 153 developer sessions were related to CarPlay. Despite the…

We’re updating our estimates for stand-alone smart speakers and tuning our model based on more historical sales figures. Bottom line: this market remains in high growth mode. We estimate more than one-third of all US households will have a smart…