“Despite that neither firm has yet moved to include tablets within their PC marketshare figures is particularly risible when you consider both firms concede the iPad has impacted broader PC sales, impacting netbooks in particular,” Evans reports. “It is ever so obvious that iPads can be used as productivity devices — that’s why Fortune 500 companies are adopting them; that is why corporations are considering them a viable and lightweight alternative to notebooks for business trips… When, oh when, [will] Gartner and IDC accept the error of their ways and choose to recognise tablet sales as PC sales?”
Evans reports, “If they do, then imagine if Apple had sold just 4.5 million iPads in the last quarter (which seems conservative, given news out of Apple’s component supply chains). Add those sales to its PC sales and Steve Jobs now leads what is arguably the biggest [U.S.] computer company… Apple shipped [a roughly estimated] 1.9 million PCs in the US, compared to HP’s 4.5 million and Dell’s 4.3 million.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As anyone who owns one understands, iPad is a personal computer.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
@ABQ Peter
The shock would be that the aliens would pick CNN for their interview.
@ Think
If they picked Fox everyone would just laugh at them.
@ Think
If they picked Fox everyone would just laugh at them.
I love this one…
@ edward: “plus, it doesn’t have USB port like PC or mac”
So, by edward’s definition, PCs did not exist before September of 1998. Before that, these USB-less ‘devices’ were bereft of any kind of data transfer bus. How on earth did we live?!?!
I love this one…
@ edward: “plus, it doesn’t have USB port like PC or mac”
So, by edward’s definition, PCs did not exist before September of 1998. Before that, these USB-less ‘devices’ were bereft of any kind of data transfer bus. How on earth did we live?!?!
i like these kinds of discussions, like talking to old friends.
i like these kinds of discussions, like talking to old friends.
@ ABQ Peter
I’m with you on the camera thing. I want my EOS to work like my iPhone does – with a big, multitouch screen, touch-to-focus, network connectivity, and a Canon interchangeable lens mount. (dreams)
@ ABQ Peter
I’m with you on the camera thing. I want my EOS to work like my iPhone does – with a big, multitouch screen, touch-to-focus, network connectivity, and a Canon interchangeable lens mount. (dreams)
Can i install photo editing software? No? Ain’t a pc then. It’s just a cool book reader, browser, game player.
Can i install photo editing software? No? Ain’t a pc then. It’s just a cool book reader, browser, game player.
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2011 = $401period!
Apple has:
Zero debt
$48 Billion Cash
Hot high demand products
Record Profits $$$$ $$$$
Global Expansion and hiring
China market
Apple Stores packed as in sardines
Great Management
New products
A Lot of growth to come still
And lastly Fans like U:-)
C1
Edward was probably not alive in 1998.
C1
Edward was probably not alive in 1998.
Steve Ballmer recently claimed that “the iPad is a PC”, so it must be true.
Steve Ballmer recently claimed that “the iPad is a PC”, so it must be true.
My iPad and iPhone4 were made in China.
How is Apple now “the biggest U.S. PC maker”?
My iPad and iPhone4 were made in China.
How is Apple now “the biggest U.S. PC maker”?
No USB port?
Hell, it doesn’t even have a floppy disk drive.
No USB port?
Hell, it doesn’t even have a floppy disk drive.
@ daugav369pils
If companies that ship their manufacturing overseas don’t count as American companies, then there are almost no American companies.
@ daugav369pils
If companies that ship their manufacturing overseas don’t count as American companies, then there are almost no American companies.
@ Qman
No vacuum tubes, no sale.
@ Qman
No vacuum tubes, no sale.