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Apple Poised to Become World's Top-Selling PC Vendor with Tablets Included
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"In Due Course" is a fortune cooking comment, LTD. How long is "in due course" ?
1 year. 2 years? 20 years? It's "easy" to make predictions without any real value.
IE - It's only a matter of time before displays are nothing like what they are today.
Of course not! Technology rolls along.
In due course - maybe Google buys Apple. Maybe Apple buys Google. Maybe some other company that doesn't exist yet rises up and kills both off.
In due course.. of course..
You're confusing a class (moped) with a brand (Vespa), at least in Europe, any two wheel vehicle of more than 50cc is classified as motorcycle and must have car plates.
Only 49cc are classified as mopeds and only need a urban plate.
Really don't care about this number other than it means Apple will have money to continue to make products I enjoy. Oh, and add to their cash reserve.
In the long run, Apple will likely be in the same place HP now finds themselves. That isn't a bash against Apple, just the way business cycles tend to run, what history has shown us and just playing the odds. It is also why I don't have a problem with their cash in holding. Need that money to get through the lean times as well as make the best of the good times.
Nice to see Apple here but just want them to keep making great products.
In the long run, Apple will likely be in the same place HP now finds themselves. That isn't a bash against Apple, just the way business cycles tend to run, what history has shown us and just playing the odds. It is also why I don't have a problem with their cash in holding. Need that money to get through the lean times as well as make the best of the good times.
Nice to see Apple here but just want them to keep making great products.
just watch star trek or other scifi, most of them use tablets, and replicators and transporters, but anyone who thought of ideal tech without technology's current limits probably thought of something similar to the ipad, it was just a matter of making it.
how obvious is a 3d printer that could print food? that would be sweet, but it's a little tough to make. but it's coming
And iPhones, iPod Touchs, any smartphone, etc.
Do we have to count them on the personal computer statistics?
I'm not arguing for or against. Maybe I am. But your analysis is flawed. And it doesn't matter what marketing or analysts say - at the end of the day - it's hat consumers call their devices.
Consumers - at least right now - don't refer to their tablets as PCs. They refer them as tablets. They don't say "I'm on my computer right now" - they say "I'm on my iPad" (as opposed to I'm on my Lenovo Thinkpad).
Eventually we might live in a world where devices are just devices without regard to what it's called. But that's not today.
My point is desktop and laptops are a different class from each other the same way tablets are. So you are classification on what OS it runs?? Computers (both desktop and laptop) have have all kinds of different input paradigms over the years - so you change classification every time that changes too? In fact most desktop computers have NO built in input device - you have to add one!
The tablet is just another evolution of the "computer", just as laptops were.
and pc=/=computer of the future, the future computer will be AI in the cloud that does your bidding by voice or even just thought. see star trek. "computer, cross reference the data and give me a solution"
I certainly count smartphones as personal computers.
Do you really think they're glorified telephones?
Within 5 years.
Sorry, I completely forgot to give you an exact number.
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Once again it's the apple fanbois saying illogical things like the ipad should be considered a PC.
Even an iPhone can be a PC too when you use it properly. It's all can be overlapping.
How if notebook starts too use Micro SIM which allowed for data, text and phone calls? What would you call it? Phonebook, Notephone, Phonetop? And because of it, it can not be classed as a computer anymore?
I think it's fair enough for Apple to includes iPad as a computer too, different class as conventional computer of course, it's not as powerful. But even puny netbooks bundled with Windows 7 Starter edition (which not much more "useful" than iOS) can be called a computer, so why wouldn't iPad?
How if notebook starts too use Micro SIM which allowed for data, text and phone calls? What would you call it? Phonebook, Notephone, Phonetop? And because of it, it can not be classed as a computer anymore?
I think it's fair enough for Apple to includes iPad as a computer too, different class as conventional computer of course, it's not as powerful. But even puny netbooks bundled with Windows 7 Starter edition (which not much more "useful" than iOS) can be called a computer, so why wouldn't iPad?
due course is when all the closed minded people die out and a new generation replaces them
Ah, because you say so, no?
Well, i say they need at least a 10" screen => iPad out of the equation.
Just explaining the logic behind the analyses we're seeing. Smartphones don't have a tablet form-factor. A tablet form-factor is important for alit of reasons, mostly from a usability perspective. Size matters.
You don't necessarily have to agree with it.
If you really want to be sure, ask Canalys.
just wait for the iGlasses, which can put a huge screen right infront of your face from your iphone or iWatch, overlayed as augmented reality or full theatre experience, what then?
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the ones who have an ipad as a child will probably think different.
I hope at least, for the sake of human evolution.Sure seems obvious, until you realize that most desktop computers don't have ANY screen. You have to add one!
Which you can do to most smartphones, the iPod Touch etc. too...Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A405 Safari/7534.48.3)
Not as long as Apple considers tablets post PC devices.
Not as long as Apple considers tablets post PC devices.