“Apple’s iPad may not be cannibalizing Mac sales, but it’s evidently having a deleterious effect on the PC market–and not just the netbook segment,” John Paczkowski reports for AllThingsD.
“According to UBS analyst Maynard Um, the iPad is having a negative impact on the entire PC industry,” Paczkowski reports. “‘Sales of traditional notebooks appear to be feeling pressure from the iPad, causing a scramble by vendors to launch iPad-like tablets,’ Um wrote in a note to clients.
Paczkowski reports, “He expects iPad unit shipments for calendar 2011 to be 28 million, a number Um says ‘could still be conservative.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: The worm has turned. And, Microsoft, thou hath been neutered. First by iPod, then by iPhone, and now by iPad. Mac OS X-based iOS is the Redpill, bitch. Windows is destined to become a skidmark on the pages of the history of computing. Meanwhile, Apple keeps racking up record Mac sales quarter after quarter after quarter. Ain’t life grand?!
This headline speaks about “Bloodbath” – But actually should be a “Bullshitbath”.
Common – two or three analysts fondle each others balls.
And some apple-fanboys dream their dayream.
It’s all about Apple’s perfect Marketingmachine.
I’am totally with “Predrag’s” opinion.
Sorry!