Bloodbath: Apple’s revolutionary iPad cannibalizing entire Windows PC industry

Apple Online Store“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.

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“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.'”

Full article here.

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?!

51 Comments

  1. 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!

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