Comments on: Smartphones trump computers among online Chinese

By: Hotinplaya

Hotinplaya — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:50:33 +0000

Wonder if apple has a discount program for Foxconn and the other assemblers?

By: rp2010

rp2010 — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:57:46 +0000

Teens here too. Their primary computing device is a smart phone or tablet. While MS was shoring up it’s desktop monopoly, Apple & Google leapfroged it.
Balmer didn’t even know what was happening.

By: G4Dualie

G4Dualie — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:55:19 +0000

Asia has long used phones for ad hoc computing and networking. The life’s blood of such a phenomenon is called Teen Spirit.

[You can't buy it, you can only hope its slashing vortex touches you even in some small way.]

Homes in Asia are small by our standards and the power fluctuates maddeningly at the worst times, but phones are robust and you can hide them.

Computers are nice, in Asia, but “most” families would rather buy a new television that isn’t made of wood.

By: BoC

BoC — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:36:12 +0000

A real world parable of the King of the Mountain on a defensible hill controlling ultimate power over the hilltop…

Microsoft lost site of the masses and what they really want down on the flatlands, which was “anything but MS Office”. The average Joe wants to send and receive snippets.

By: peterblood71

peterblood71 — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:22:16 +0000

Mobile – The Achilles Heel that took down an accident of history: Micro$oft.