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Jan Dawson

Chief Telecoms Analyst, Ovum

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Telecoms analyst with over 10 years of experience advising clients on consumer and enterprise services, mobile devices, regulation and strategy.

Aug. 25, 2011

Jan Dawson and 5 other people answered this question

Can an operational leader like Tim Cook be enough of a replacement for a visionary like Steve Jobs?

I've commented on this at length on our site here: http://about.ovum.com/app/the-effects-of-steve-jobs-resignation-will-take-som...
Reposting this from another, similar, thread.
In brief, though, short term the effect will be muted, but longer term it may be more profound. Short-term, Jobs remains in the role of chairman, and Cook will largely ... more

General Management

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Apple

Consumer Electronics

Aug. 25, 2011

Jan Dawson and 25 other people answered this question

Steve Jobs has resigned. What do you think this means for the future of Apple?

I've commented on this at length on our site here: http://about.ovum.com/app/the-effects-of-steve-jobs-resignation-will-take-som...
In brief, though, short term the effect will be muted, but longer term it may be more profound. Short-term, Jobs remains in the role of chairman, and Cook will largely be executing on long-determined strategies ... more

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July 20, 2011

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Why is Sprint advertising public hearings regarding the AT&T/T-Mobile merger?

Sprint is very publicly on record as opposing the merger, and their strategy for blocking it is to make it as hard as possible to obtain approval at every level. A state PUC would be very unlikely to block it outright but could demand local ... more

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July 8, 2011

Jan Dawson and 2 other people answered this question

Why is Microsoft in the smartphone OS business?

Thanks Blake. The issue is that Microsoft makes maybe $10-15 per license in mobile, compared with multiple hundreds of dollars per Windows license in the PC space, so it would have to sell ten times as many licenses to make as much money in smartphones ... more

Information Technology

June 10, 2011

Jan Dawson and 2 other people answered this question

Why do Android users consume more data than iPhone users?

Another possibility is that people have been making use of tethering and portable hotspot features which until recently were only available on Android and therefore may have seen greater usage there, driving up overall bandwidth usage. more

Information Technology

June 6, 2011

Jan Dawson and 2 other people answered this question

Will Microsoft's Win 8 make large inroads versus iOS, Android, and other touch-centric mobile OSs?

For me the biggest thing about Windows 8 is that Microsoft is still taking the same approach to tablets as it always has in some ways - i.e. that the appropriate OS for tablets is a version of (or perhaps simply is) the desktop OS. ... more

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May 24, 2011

Jan Dawson and 2 other people answered this question

Why did Android generate more mobile ad impressions than Apple iOS and RIM's Blackberry OS devices?

There are two primary reasons: Android's growing market share in the US, and Android's greater focus and reliance on advertising.
Android's market share has been rapidly rising over the last couple of years as evidenced by Comscore (http://moconews.net/article/419-comscore-android-gaining-u.s.-market-share-at...) and Nielsen (http://www.pcworld.com/article/226339/android_market_share_growth_acceleratin...) data. So that's a major ... more

Information Technology

May 20, 2011

Jan Dawson and 14 other people answered this question

What are the best apps for making the iPad function like a laptop?

To me there are several categories:
- Apps that replicate the functionality of Microsoft Office, which would include the Apple versions - Keynote, Pages and Numbers, and the various Office replacements such as DocsToGo, QuickOffice and so on. The Apple products really aren't replacements since they're ... more

Information Technology

May 19, 2011

Jan Dawson and 2 other people answered this question

Is marketing one of Microsoft's key strengths? Should marketing be core to their strategy with Skype

Microsoft has so many different products, and there are examples among them of those that have achieved mass market adoption (Windows, Office, Xbox) and those that haven't (Live Services, Zune, Windows Phone 7). Microsoft is notoriously bad at online services - they have been losing ... more

Information Technology

May 19, 2011

Jan Dawson recommends this answer by Robert Keahey

There's a rumor that Cisco might sell LinkSys and WebEx. Would this be a good strategy for Cisco?

Linksys yes. Webex... maybe, maybe not. Webex could/should be an integral part of Cisco's enterprise TelePresence strategy, including mobile devices. But they need to keep it at an enterprise level (focus) and stay out of the consumer space. more

Information Technology

May 2, 2011

Jan Dawson and 1 other person answered this question

CenturyLink has acquired Savvis - Why Savvis? What value will Savvis bring to CenturyLink?

This isn't the first acquisition of a major hosting provider by a major telco - Verizon recently closed its acquisition of Terremark, and we're likely to see others in the coming months. Simply put, telcos see enterprise cloud services as a major trend they'd like ... more

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Information Technology

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April 27, 2011

Jan Dawson and 1 other person answered this question

What are your thoughts on T-Mobile's Bobsled application?

It's a trend I wrote about a couple of years ago on my (now mothballed) personal blog: http://www.thesocialtelco.com/2009/05/04/defining-the-social-telco/
I think it's exactly the sort of thing carriers should be doing - using their core network assets but exposing them in new places, especially the places where ... more

Information Technology

April 27, 2011

Jan Dawson asked a question

How many smartphone platforms can the market support?

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Mobile

Platforms

Smartphones

April 27, 2011

Jan Dawson answered this question

RIM acquires the social calendaring application Tungle - Why?

They also acquired Gist a while back - see http://blogs.blackberry.com/2011/02/rim-welcomes-gist/. This seems to be part of a strategy to create various smart social features around both calendars and contacts which might eventually be integrated into the core BlackBerry OS. The challenge is that many users ... more

Information Technology

April 15, 2011

Jan Dawson is now following Brielle Nikaido

April 14, 2011

Jan Dawson and 4 other people answered this question

Has RIM Lost Its Edge?

Andrew - I've heard that strategy proposed elsewhere as well. The problem right now with that approach is that devices represent 80% of RIM's revenues (that number has been pretty stable for about 3 years). So, it would be a huge upheaval to move in ... more

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