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  • Jason Low

    Google's messy approach to Pixel Watch launch

    Market
    Google officially released the long-awaited Pixel Watch on 6 October 2022, marking a new milestone as it is Google's first attempt at making a first-party smartwatch. Read Article
    • 11 Oct 2022

  • Robin Ody

    Vendors are trying to navigate evolving routes to market

    Market
    As the industry moves to the cloud, managed services or ecosystems, and cybersecurity risks increase, it is important to see how vendors are managing these changes, and what effect their responses have on the community of channel partners. Read Article
    • 05 Oct 2022

  • Alastair Edwards

    Canalys Forums 2022: Into the “partnerverse”: a digital future for the channel?

    Canalys Forums
    In this blog, we assess the importance of new digital sales and marketing models for the channel and ask what the future of the “partnerverse” will look like – fully virtual and immersive, or a hybrid of physical and digital? Read Article
    • 27 Sep 2022

  • Robin Ody

    Canalys Forums 2022: holistic security; is XDR in your strategy?

    Market
    XDR is a hot topic, and one of the many cybersecurity offerings fighting for airtime in the channel today. In this blog, we explore how much the channel understands the current offerings, whether customers understand the value and where the future of XDR is for the channel. Read Article
    • 22 Sep 2022

  • Yi Zhang

    Video cloud becomes a key market segment

    Market
    Canalys has turned its cloud analysis service to focus on China’s video cloud market, analyzing the emerging trend of video-related IaaS and PaaS, which are hosted on either dedicated private infrastructure or shared public infrastructure. Read Article
    • 01 Sep 2022

  • Brian Lynch

    Where next for PC-saturated US education market?

    Market
    US education PC shipments have shrunk dramatically from its pandemic-era boom. Now the future of the market is uncertain but still offers tremendous potential. Read Article
    • 30 Aug 2022

  • Rodney Hur

    Use the bottom-up approach to grow your partner base

    Market
    Vendors have traditionally made the most effort to recruit high-revenue-driving partners. These “mega” partners often demand a lot of attention, time and resources. With ongoing macroeconomic issues, such as inflation and the talent shortage, it is a good time for vendors to consider another method to grow their partner bases. Read Article
    • 22 Aug 2022

  • Chris Jones

    Competing to control the in-vehicle user experience

    Market
    Car makers need to differentiate, but have set themselves huge challenges as they shift to digital cockpit software platforms and, potentially, away from popular smartphone mirroring solutions. Read Article
    • 09 Aug 2022

  • Damian Leyva-Cortes

    Chile leads 5G push in Latin America

    Market
    As Latin American operators have declined in recent years, it has become clear they have to reinvent themselves to survive in a new era of service-led convergence. 5G arrived as a savior, and has earned relevance with consumers, however, offering 5G requires considerable investment that most operators are not willing to make in a short timeframe. Instead 5G, in most cases, has derived into a number of B2B services where operators own both the service and the infrastructure, making them more competitive in terms of services compared to most tech companies. That is helping operators with immediate ROI, and is seen as an oxygen balloon for their investors, to the detriment of consumer experience. Read Article
    • 29 Jul 2022

  • Jack Yap

    Can Nothing follow in OnePlus’ early footsteps, or will it suffer an Essential ending?

    Market
    There has been some welcome excitement in the smartphone market in recent weeks as former OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei’s Nothing first teased and then unveiled the mid-range Nothing Phone (1). Read Article
    • 27 Jul 2022