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04-10-2012, 11:50 PM | #32 |
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In the last nine months, Apples market cap grew by 1 Microsoft.
Post-Pc is smartphones and tablets. Smartphones outsell PC's already. Apple sold more iPads, than HP sold PC's last quarter...less than two years after the iPad was launched. Look at the trend lines. Lee |
04-11-2012, 12:14 AM | #33 | |
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I am looking at the trend. The last two versions of iDevices (ipad 3 and iphone 4s) were no design changes but just spec upgrades. For the iPhone that means no new design in over 2 years. So the real question will be: "how much of Apple's success was Steve Jobs' doing and how has he managed to pass on his skills inside the organization?" Apple is well positioned, no doubt. But I have my doubts that they can execute as they have in the past. We will know soon enough, if Apple without Steve still has what it takes. Given the fact that (as many of them here consistently state) the Apple users don't really care about specs it will take new designs to move forward. And to grow as they have in the past few years, they would need a new product line. Last edited by HansTWN; 04-11-2012 at 12:19 AM. |
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04-11-2012, 12:31 AM | #34 |
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I think we already have some hints; I doubt Steve would have approved of the iPad 3 being called "the new iPad". So when the iPad 4 comes out, we will have the "old new iPad", and the "newer iPad".
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04-11-2012, 12:58 AM | #35 | |
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I, personally, would rather that they had gone ahead and called it the iPad 3, which is what I call it. But not using numbers is Apple's usual practice, so I have no doubt that Steve would have approved this...in fact, I think he probably did approve it. |
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04-11-2012, 02:57 AM | #36 |
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04-11-2012, 11:45 AM | #37 |
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04-11-2012, 11:54 AM | #38 |
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Of course it's going to look bad if you single out a single company out of the hundreds that put together and sell Windows-based computers. (as for the smartphone issue, that is only because the telcos *heavily* subsidize the initial cost - much easier for people to pay $40 a month per person for the next 3 years when they don't have that initial $300-500 cost per person)
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04-11-2012, 12:59 PM | #39 |
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ScientificBob brings up some good and interesting points.
However I have been seriously considering an Asus Transformer Prime and a network attached hard drive as a PC replacement. For some people such a setup would probably meet all their personal computing needs today. For me it's not quite there yet, but it's very close. So like many others I continue to wait to see what happens with Windows 8. If done correctly, Windows 8 with Asus Transformer-type hardware has the potential to dominate the market. But I won't be at all surprised if there is an Apple or Android device released around the same time that has the capability of meeting the needs of 90+% of home pc users, or if Microsoft can't deliver a well executed device. I think you overestimate what most people need in a home computer. |
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A lot of the "Post PC world!" chatter misses the point that computers for a lot of people are substantially more durable goods than phones or tablets, and have been at something of a plateau of development for about five years now. People aren't buying a lot of computers because their 2-5 year old machines still work just fine. Mobile tech, otoh, still makes significant strides year by year, often gets rougher use (being mobile), and is a status symbol, all of which adds up to much more frequent purchases.
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04-11-2012, 01:11 PM | #41 |
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iPod Touch, iPod Touch, iPod Touch, iPod Touch. (up to 4th gen currently)
iPod Nano, iPod Nano, iPod Nano, iPod Nano, iPod Nano, iPod Nano, iPod Nano. (up to 7th gen currently) You get the idea. Just differentiated by generation numbers, which are not used by Apple in the store. The iPhone, and the iPad 2, are the odd ones out. |
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For cellphones, while there are undoubtedly folks who buy the latest model (well, the iPhone mostly) when it comes out, I reckon folks who just use their phones for the basics (talk and text), the only time they switch phones is when the battery is no longer holding a charge. |
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04-11-2012, 02:40 PM | #44 | |
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I miss a VGA connection, the screen is simply not large enough for extensive computing. It has a mini-HDMI but that would require a new monitor (which lots of people already might have), I would like it to work with some monitor that I already have that isn't being used. This would also require better graphic handling. So there are still some glitches that need to be ironed out before it can replace a regular computer. But I grant you, it is close, very close. |
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