Mobile game apps now leaving portable console games in the dust
The long-term challenge that mobile apps present Nintendo keeps getting more formidable. The new joint study from IDC and App Annie shows how consumer spending …
Tero Kuittinen
After launching mobile game company SpringToys tragically early in 2000, Tero Kuittinen spent eight years doing equity research at firms including Alliance Capital and Opstock. He is currently an analyst and VP of North American sales at mobile diagnostics and expense management Alekstra, and has contributed to TheStreet.com, Forbes and Business 2.0 Magazine in addition to BGR.
Articles by Tero Kuittinen
Amazon’s video juggernaut is about to pass Yahoo
Last February, Amazon had 28 million unique viewers for its video content, far behind Yahoo’s 43 million unique viewers. But according to fresh comScore numbers, …
Yes, the iPhone 5S must be gold
Back in 2010, 3G device sales in North America outpaced China and India by 185 million vs. 114 million. That’s when the collective taste of American …
The next big gaming trend is… plastic action figures?
The Skylanders gaming and action figure franchise just passed $1.5 billion in global sales, which is proof positive that combining plastic figurines with video games can …
Nook’s death rattle
Barnes & Noble has finally slashed the price of its moribund Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight to $99. The entire eBook reader industry received a fatal …
Sony’s surprise triumph over Samsung
Last year, Samsung’s solid sales performance with the Samsung Galaxy S III in Japan was a major milestone for the company. Samsung had managed to …
HTC’s desperate U-turn
HTC’s new billion dollar marketing campaign is kicking off. And it’s built entirely on whimsy. It features Robert Downey Jr. in a series of wacky situations that have …
Is Netflix suddenly a cable TV kingmaker?
The television world was rocked this week by the news that the cult series Breaking Bad hit 5.9 million viewers with its season opener. This …
Google Play continues its furious bid to catch up with iOS
According to new July figures from app analytics firm Distimo, Google Play’s app revenue has now increased by an impressive 67% since the start of the …
Why now, BlackBerry?
Just a few months ago, BlackBerry seemed dedicated to going alone. Now, the company is surprisingly blunt about its willingness to consider a joint venture or …
BlackBerry is impossible to value right now
The news about BlackBerry possibly becoming a privately held company thrilled Wall Street on Friday the morning, but by 11:15 a.m., BlackBerry’s gains had dwindled …
WhatsApp is starting to look dangerously conservative
On Tuesday night, WhatsApp announced the addition of voice messaging to its service. In some ways, this news only underlined just how narrow the feature palette of …
2013: The exciting smartphone year that never came to be
Yes, it is depressing to witness a major vendor discussing proudly how important it is to move buttons from the side of a flagship phone …
HTC One Max and the road to hell
The new HTC One Max is one of those sad freaks of nature: A spin-off phone that is being launched after the model it is based on …
Why BlackBerry can’t afford to delay BBM for iOS and Android any longer
The private beta of BlackBerry Messenger for iOS and Android is starting to trickle out to testers. BBM cannot debut soon enough as several leading …
Hulu is trying to out-weird Netflix
Perhaps goaded by the dazzling media blitz Netflix has managed to generate with its original shows, Hulu is now attempting to launch a string of …
Motorola in dreamland
It is no surprise Motorola wants to sell its new flagship phone on customized covers and voice commands. Google is a software company. It dreams of …
An engine of destruction: The anatomy of a low-end Android phone
Last March, a low-end Android phone called Xolo Q800 debuted in Asia. The model remains almost unknown in the Western markets, but it is a perfect specimen …
Zombie apocalypse: Supposedly dead Garmin outperforms leading smartphone vendors
Apple posted a 20% profit decline in its spring quarter. Personal navigation device (PND) vendor Garmin just delivered a comparatively mild 7% earnings decline. If anyone had forecast …
Spotify may actually be reigniting music sales growth
In some ways, Sweden is the chilly laboratory of the global music industry. The local hero, Spotify, took over the country already at the end …
Why Android’s ‘cheap and nasty’ strategy is a huge threat to the iOS ecosystem
Yes, many Android phones have that tacky, plastic feel. No, Android vendors selling those sub-$200 phones are not making much money. Yes, Android is seriously fragmented. …
Messaging apps now dominate Android app market revenue
Many angry readers ask me why I yammer on endlessly about messaging apps like LINE and Kakaotalk. Why would anybody care so much about this app …
Early signs don’t bode well for Nokia’s Lumia 1020
The Lumia 1020 was a very bold move from Nokia. “Bold,” as in “astonishingly reckless.” After its previous flagship Lumia phone struggled in America at $100, Nokia and …
You only live twice: Vine gets its second wind in epic video app clash
Things looked mighty grim for Vine a month ago. The app went into tail spin in America when Instagram launched a video clip service that copied …
AT&T and the Red Queen’s Race
AT&T’s spring quarter had a bit of that “Alice in Wonderland” quality. The mammoth carrier beat Wall Street’s consensus by 10% by adding 551,000 new …
The smartphone market’s huge Q2 growth is awful news for big brands
Market research giant IDC recently announced surprisingly strong spring smartphone numbers. Global smartphone volume growth topped expectations handily, coming in at torrid +52% between the second quarter …
Crazy like a fox — Netflix now bets on teen mermaids
After Orange is the New Black surprisingly beat Arrested Development on first week audience count, Netflix is going even further out on a limb with …
Nokia may have found a great new niche
All Western brands are struggling to get traction in what is shaping up to be an epic battle against the Asian Android vendors that have …
Killing BBM: Rival messaging apps are on a rampage right now
BlackBerry Messenger is likely going to become available for Android and iOS by the end of September. While the world waits, download rates among cross-platform …
China Mobile really has Apple over the barrel
Apple reported revenue and earnings numbers that were solid and its iPhone sales volume that was actually 4 million to 5 million units above Wall Street …
