Posts Tagged ‘tablet’
Chart: Internet Access by Device
As our readers know, every now and then I like to post a chart and tease out the highlights. Today, I want to do that with some updated data. Across many global markets, consumers were...
Rebuttal: 10 Reasons To Not Buy A Windows Tablet
ZDNet posted an article entitled: 10 Reasons To Buy A Windows Tablet Instead Of The iPad Or Android. The ZDNet article proves to me you’re never too old to learn something stupid. The justifications used … Continue reading
How The Tablet Made An Ass Of The PC
Many tech watchers STILL don’t understand what a “disruptive innovation” is. I’m no Einstein, but I’m going to try to explain it in terms that even a six year old could understand (and with pretty … Continue reading
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Or more. Alex Greer posted the following picture on Twitter under the caption: I turn around and find my parents at the kids’ table at the @apple...
Tablet Metaphysics
Are you ready for some Tech Metaphysics? “Aristotle drew a distinction between essential and accidental properties. The way he put it is that essential properties are those without which a thing wouldn’t be what it...
How the Tablet is Killing the PC
IDC recently released its forecast of PC sales for the last quarter and said PC shipments were down 13.9%. It laid much of the blame on Windows 8, but I am not sure this analysis...
The Microsoft Surface Was Made For Surfaces…But That’s Not What Tablets Were Made For
The first Microsoft Surface Ad is out. It’s called “The Surface Movement” (although it probably should be called “Click”). In his article entitled: Marketing Surface and Windows 8, Ben Bajarin focuses on what the ad … Continue reading
The Return of the Tablet PC
Microsoft’s decision to offer tablets in two flavors–Intel-powered slates running full windows 8 and ARM-powered units running Windows RT–has created a marketing and branding problem for manufacturers: How these very different products going to be … Continue reading
HP’s Surprising Tablet Attack
I recently attended HP’s Securities Analyst Meeting (SAM) where HP made its case to Wall Street on why investors should believe in the company and buy the stock. I will write about the conference later … Continue reading
The iPad Is Selling like Mad And Making The Competition Sad
At the iPhone 5 event held on Wednesday, September 12, 2012, Tim Cook announced these facts regarding iPads: 1) Last quarter, Apple sold 17 million iPads. 2) Apple sold more iPads than any PC manufacturer … Continue reading
Google Created the Mess and Now Must Fix Android Tablets
Android for phones by any measure has been a success, while Android for “premium” tablets by every measure has been a disaster. According to IDC, the iPad held 55% market share of all tablets in … Continue reading
Apple’s Brand Unraveling? Ridiculous!
I came across an article yesterday in which the headline screamed out “Apple’s Brand Unraveling.” The author even went on to call the new naming of the new iPad “weird.” Apple’s brand unraveling is the … Continue reading
Let’s Stop Classifying the iPad as a PC
Last month, Canalys reported that “Apple is on track to become leading global PC vendor”. That would be a tremendous accomplishment, given that no reports had Apple in the top 5 at the end of … Continue reading
7″ Media Tablets Like Kindle Fire…”Dead On Arrival”?
UPDATED with Amazon Kindle “Fire” references. A few weeks ago, TechCrunch reported that Amazon’s 7″ Kindle tablet was “very real” and would ship for the 2011 holidays. (UPDATED: Now rumored to be called “Kindle Fire“. … Continue reading
Is there a market for Good Enough “Tablets?”
In April I wrote in my PC Mag column about Amazon Stealing Android from Google and argued in this piece that Amazon was most likely building their own proprietary approach to integrating their overall Android … Continue reading
Amazon Plans on Stealing Android Developers From Google
You may think such a statement sounds absurd. However if a recent report from MG Siegler at TechCrunch is true then Amazon wants to lure Android developers for their own version of Android and Kindle … Continue reading
Why non- iPad Tablets Aren’t Selling Well is Fundamental
So why aren’t non-iPad tablets selling as well as the iPad? I read a very interesting article Wednesday from James Kendrick at ZDNet. His contention is that one of the biggest issues is competing with … Continue reading
Android is Finally Ready for the Tablet Market
Over the last few weeks, Android for Tablets (aka Honeycomb) 3.2 started rolling out to tablets like the Asus Transformer and the Motorola Xoom. While the announcement of Android 3.1 was met with great fanfare … Continue reading
Do Students Hate Textbooks More than They Like Sex?
It’s no secret that students hate both buying bloated, overpriced textbooks and lugging those bricks around in their backpacks. But we didn’t know how much. A new survey sponsored by Kno, Inc.–which, not coincidentally, is … Continue reading
Why Apple Can’t Chase the Low End
In a post here earlier today, Ban Bajarin dismissed the frequent criticism of Apple for failing to serve the low end of the computer market. Ben focused on consumers’ willingness to perceive, and pay for, … Continue reading
The Need for Smarter Mobile Notifications
Push notifications on our smart phones and tablets are shaping up to be a central part of our experiences with those devices. The concept itself has many benefits, particularly where it lets us get information … Continue reading
The Revenge of Pen Computing?
I’ll admit, when I heard about HTC adding pen capability to its tablet, I rolled my eyes and wrote it off. Then I watched HTC’s promotional video on the HTC Flyer and read comments from … Continue reading
The Asus PadFone is a Glimpse of the Future
As a part of my work as an industry analyst I do a great deal of thinking about the future. Many of the projects we get pulled into and asked to add analysis on are … Continue reading
Why Convertible PCs Are About To Become Very Popular
Convertible computers are those that can serve as a standalone media tablet and, when attached to a keyboard, can serve as a notebook. I believe that in 2013, these will be immensely popular. This is … Continue reading
10 Days With the HP TouchPad Tablet
As I have described in previous posts on my AMD blog, part of my job entails forecasting future usage models for consumers and businesses. One of the various techniques I use is living with … Continue reading
