As I replace my phone / tablet every 2 years and my main laptop/desktop every 5 years I can't say I am really surprised. All this really shows is we replace our phones more often! It might get to a point where smartphones also go on for several years.
Yep. I have an iPad Air, I am at the point where it has matured, so my iPad life (1,2,3,Air) will now slow. I have an iPhone 5S, same point, my iPhone life (4,4S,5, 5S) will slow when the larger 6 is out. Just ordered my first Mac, rMBP, that will last me for ages, time soon to upgrade my already good Win 7 gaming rig. Like many, I have helped cause the smartphone/tablet revolution, its now maturing, they will slow, as like PCs have been for years, everyone will have one. Then do that stats, dont give me stats now that are comparing unrelated or overlapping tech
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This! I upgrade my phone every year not even knowing which phone I'm upgrading to (I'm using Android so I have more selection). I tell my wife that the only thing I ever want for my birthday and Christmas is a new phone. 10 years ago I use to always pour money into my custom built PC on a yearly basis. My i5 2500k cpu is 2 years old and it still works just as fast; I don't need or want to upgrade. But this year I might try iPhone 6 which brings a totally different experience from my Note 3. But I do know I'm upgrading.
Exactly, just like me. These devices are not competing devices in the tech sense, none are replacing each other, they are new spends. Like PC's were in the 80's, until everyone got one.
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How so? I think it's a pretty apples-to-apples comparison: Mac + iDevice sales vs. PC + Win Phone sales.
Are you just upset because Android wasn't mentioned?
Huh?
How about
Macs vs PC
iPhone vs Android phone vs Windows Phone
iPad vs Android tablet vs Windows tablet
iPod Touch vs Android equivalent vs Windows equivalent
That is a fair and equal read
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Tablet owners who now don't USE a PC at all vs tablet owners who also use a PC (PC being Apple or Windows, desktop or laptop)
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It tells us that the mobile market is an extremely fast growing market that will change the scale of the industry. That is a very relevant observation, because it's what all the naysayers in this thread completely misunderstand.
Off course it is new, these are additional devices. It is one thing that they replace some functions on the PC, but will they replace the PC, off course not. Comparing a new market of a different sector of IT hardware to a long existing and saturated market is ridiculous. Should the vast majority of traditional PC's disappear in favour of phones and tablets, then yes I agree.
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Look at the chart again. To get the Apple number higher, validating his premise, the author subtracted the WinPhone numbers. When the WP numbers are included, that aggregate total is higher than the Apple numbers. His chart works because he selectively chose data that would make his point seem valid.
Mobile outsold PC. Everyone knows that. Samsung outsold them both, which is another irrelevant point. Android outsold them both combined. I only used them to highlight the click bait nature of the guy's research.
Like I said, Apple is successful in it's own right. It doesn't need crap like this for validation.
Yep, in fact is he trying to validate Apple, or invalidate Windows? And in this context Windows = a Windows based PC. Fortunately Windows Phone and Windows tablet are too new, too small, to affect his stat
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Originally Posted by Kilamite
This is a really stupid article..
Let's compare the total sales of computers, phones, tablets and mp3 players by one company to the total of just computers sold by the rest of the industry.
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how should we compare microsoft to apple?
Kilamites post is that the stat is comparing Apple devices of all shapes and sizes to computers running Windows. This was not a Microsoft vs Apple stat