One of its chompees is the traditional work of device-driven lock-ins (in the five years of the Xbox, a consumer might have gone through five phones, installing the same core apps on at least the last three or four).
User value for the device will be driven by increased ubiquity of information.
While many firms talk about how their device deployments are driven by the ROI they hope to get from using apps, Genentech is actually following through.
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This is a plutonium-driven device that produces power far more efficiently than the traditional Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) used hitherto on space missions, such as on Cassini.
You cannot use a speech-driven device to make a note while talking on the phone, for example, or to send a surreptitious text message during a boring meeting.
It is certainly true that the resolution and screen size they picked for this device is largely being driven by constraints based on their legacy of current products and applications.
As a point scoring device in the sound-bite driven immediacy of a TV studio debate, it's quite useful.
The sequential and year-over-year change was driven by higher connected device customer deactivations during the fourth quarter of 2011.
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The sequential and year-on-year increase in blended churn was primarily driven by higher churn from branded contract and connected device customers.
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Despite being repeatedly driven over by the convoy ahead of him, the device detonated as Pte Hunt negotiated a steep river bank, ripping out the underside of the armoured personnel carrier.
The growth in Android impressions was partly driven by the introduction of the Samsung Galaxy S III, a device that now accounts for 9% of all Android traffic.
Some mobile phone zealots believe that handsets - driven by must-have voice functionality and carrier subsidization - will ultimately be the only portable device people will ever need.
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