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Michael A. Black commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, March 1, on the site 7 years, 7 months ago
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Michael A. Black commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, February 16, on the site 7 years, 7 months ago
I can see start-ups running into a major obstacle when trying to enter the market: a lack of logistics compared to the large, established airlines. Right now, everyone has the same technology (more or less) for their airplanes, so they need to make their money elsewhere, like in economies of scale and long established airport usage agreements. If…[Read more]
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Michael A. Black commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, February 23, on the site 7 years, 7 months ago
While the Switch is certainly a big step for Nintendo, I would argue that it is more of a sustaining innovation on the low-end of mobile gaming hardware. Tablets can already output to an HDTV and use wireless controllers, but with a better screen and equally powerful hardware (like the Snapdragon 820), so I do not feel there is a new market as…[Read more]
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Michael A. Black commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, February 16, on the site 7 years, 7 months ago
I agree that it is too early for a low-end disruption like Geohot was attempting to warp the autonomous vehicle market. For starters, the market for autonomous vehicle technology is entirely B2B, with vendors like MobilEye licensing technology to other companies like Tesla, although they recently severed the relationship. I steered away from…[Read more]
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Michael A. Black wrote a new post on the site Information Systems Integration 7 years, 7 months ago
Are self-driving cars ripe for a low-end disruption before they even hit the road? In much the same way the open-source, highly compatible and customizable Linux operating system presented a low-end […]
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Michael A. Black wrote a new post on the site Information Systems Integration 7 years, 8 months ago
Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a four hour outage on February 28, 2017, crippling websites that rely on content hosted in their northern Virginia availability zones. The public cloud has matured over the […]
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Michael A. Black joined the group MIS 4596 Spring 2017 – Mandviwalla 7 years, 10 months ago
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Michael A. Black changed their profile picture 9 years, 7 months ago
Oh, it’s also importat to note that cars already use free, open source software. If they don’t run UNIX they definitely run QNX so they have a lot of the standard stuff like libcurl, glibc, etc.
Blog post by maintainer of cURL about how he gets emails from Toyota’s customers for assistance with their cars because his email address is in the curl license.
I agree that it is too early for a low-end disruption like Geohot was attempting to warp the autonomous vehicle market. For starters, the market for autonomous vehicle technology is entirely B2B, with vendors like MobilEye licensing technology to other companies like Tesla, although they recently severed the relationship. I steered away from taking a position on the matter in my post, but in my opinion a low-end disruption is less likely before sales to early adopting consumers.
Self driving cars are a starting idea and lies in the sustaining disruption. Open source software in the self driving cars will definitely raise competition between companies in the self driving industry because of several relationships with other companies and also the growth rate in this industry. Even though self driving cars are growing in a high speed, shipping and transit is already in the low end disruption because of the more sophisticated driving such as uber. In other words, the increase of self driving cars will not make transit and shipping out of business. This increase will do the opposite, opening to new markets and make transit and shipping be more effective.