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42Gears and the art of making a tablet boring
A tablet can do almost anything. For a hospital, warehouse or tyre shop, that is often the problem. 42Gears sells the controls that turn versatile gadgets into dependable tools.
The Office Has Escaped the Office
VMware Workspace ONE began with a simple nuisance: work escaped the desktop, but IT’s controls did not. Now owned by Omnissa, it tries to make every device - from a nurse’s iPhone to a supermarket freezer scanner - manageable without making the worker feel managed.
Relay Tried to Replace the Kids’ Phone. Frontline Workers Found the Bigger Job.
A $99 screen-free gadget for children found its real market in hotel corridors, stadium kitchens and factory floors. Relay’s second act is a useful lesson in letting an unexpected customer rewrite the pitch.
The Budget-Phone Brand That Grew Up and Went Enterprise
NUU spent a decade selling cheap unlocked Androids to Americans who hated overpaying. Then a pandemic pushed it into a stranger, stickier business: building custom phones for companies who never wanted to be phone companies.