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Anders Borg writing about the fun and crazy world of mobile and Internet service technologies.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Nuance owns the predictive text input market, literally
Nuance recently acquired Zi Corporation, and before that Tegic, the key players in predictive text input technology.
Interestingly, even though the mobile phone market is huge, and Nuance already completely dominates the predictive text input market with close to a billion units of (X)T9 per year (my guess), Nuance’s key market is supposedly speech recognition for vertical markets, which volume-wise is a minuscule market in comparison, and revenue-wise seemingly not a significant market.. What does that say about the profitability of embedded mobile phone software?
Nuance has started a Developer Program, which Mobile Labs (I’m co-founder) has joined, as the offerings are complementing each other.
April 9, 2009 - Nuance Closes Acquisition of Zi Corporation
August 24, 2007 - Nuance Closes Acquisition of Tegic Communications
April 2, 2009 - Nuance Mobile Developer Program Adds 12 Members, Accelerates Development of Mobile Ecosystem
