Jan Dawson

Jan Dawson

Jan Dawson is the founder and Chief Analyst of Jackdaw Research, an advisory firm focused on the consumer technology industry, from smartphones and tablets to music and video services to cloud storage and e-commerce. Jan also regularly writes for the Jackdaw Research blog, Beyond Devices, as well as for Techpinions, and is a contributor to both Recode and Yahoo Finance. You can find Jan on Twitter at @jandawson.

Latest articles by Jan Dawson

White HomePod on a dresser

Apple's not late to the Home Assistant market. Because there isn't one. Yet.

By Rene Ritchie, Jan Dawson last updated

HomePod is going to miss the holidays. But how can Apple be late to a market that doesn't really exist yet? With Jan Dawson.

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The State of Fitbit: Rapid growth and oncoming challenges

By Jan Dawson published

Fitbit needs to build other products and services around its devices business, both to make it more defensible competitively and to provide more opportunities for growth.

FitBit
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Evolving iMessage

By Jan Dawson published

iMessage and the Messages app on iOS and OS X have become a massive operation, but where do they go next?

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