“In late 2012, IDC forecasted that the PC market would see a negative growth of 7.7% in Q1 of 2013,” Tim Bajarin writes for TechPinions. “But in their updated report on PC sales for the last quarter, PC sales were actually down 13.9%, the worst quarterly decline since they began tracking PC shipments.”
“All Things D published both the IDC and Gartner numbers for Q1, 2013 and wrote about both companies guidance for PC sales for the rest of the year. Even though the IDC numbers and Gartners numbers are a bit different, they both conclude that demand for PCs is in a real decline and that the likelihood of them recovering is slim,” Bajarin writes. “In this article, Arik Hesseldahl of All Things D states ‘At this time, it has to be said that much of the blame for the damage being done to the PC businesses of all the companies around the world can be laid at Apple’s feet: Sales of the iPad, the world’s leading tablet brand, have a lot to do with the collapse in PC sales.'”
Bajarin writes, “While Jobs’ is no longer with us, I think he knew that this would happen. Perhaps his last major act was to give us the iPad and finally have revenge for the years of toil in the PC market where he always ended up #2, even though he was first with many of the innovations that actually drove PCs to the masses. If he were with us today I suspect he would not shed any tears to see the decline of the PC market and instead revel in the role the iPad played in bringing his PC competitors to their knees.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Of course he knew it would happen. Steve Jobs was an unparalleled visionary.
If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it’s worth — and get busy on the next great thing. — Steve Jobs, Feb. 19, 1996
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But the iPad is just a big iPod touch!
And it can’t run 30 apps simultaneously.
…..and doesn’t have a keyboard.
“…which makes it not a very good e-mail machine…”
“So it doesn’t appeal to business users”
“I like our strategy. I like it a lot”
Pfffff! “You can get a Motorala Q for $99, it is a very capable machine, it’ll do email, it’ll do music, it’ll do Instant Messaging.”
As a fan of all things Apple I’m happy this clown is still in charge.
Way to go team.
It’s doomed! Doomed I tell you!!!
hell, it doesn’t even click.
It does blend though.
But the iPad is just a big iPhone!
Parallel construction example courtesy of a managerial co-worker on iPad announcement day.
Bottom line: Day one of PC paradigm shift.
And it doesn’t run OSX!! Fail!!
“Revenge!! Now we’re cooking..” – Lex Luthor
More good news guys from iSuppli:
Netbooks to be extinct by 2015.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57579344-92/netbook-to-go-extinct-by-2015-says-isuppli/
No USB, FLASH Drive, Floppy, DVD, BluRay, VGA Port, Serial, Extra Buttons that do various thingies that you can do in 4 different places in the OS, oh replaceable Batteries!
Seve Jobs said no to those things. He was a brutal, unfeeling executioner, a devil who stole from us the things we knew, the things we wanted. He was a cruel dictator, telling us what we could or could not do, feel, or think. His paternalism left us frustrated, his idealism bordered on the fanatical. He hurt us on so many levels. And yet the agonies we suffered turned out to be the birthing pains of new and wonderful experiences. And we began to forgive him as we began our new lives, thanks to his transcendent insight—his understanding that we only clung to multiple ports and openness and Adobe Flash because we had been hornswoggled into thinking that they were Good Things when, in fact, they were only commercial artifacts all along, designed to separate us from our money.
Another frustrated novelist.
There is only one Stan the Man, and that is Stan Lee, the genius of Marvel Comics, who remade America’s conception of itself with his postmodern and subversive brand of literature, reframing Homer’s themes of human champions as puppets of irritable gods into a story more identifiable to those of us alive today: angst-ridden or insouciant champions at the mercy of insensate, contemporary social forces.
Maybe Stan Lee is another frustrated novelist. Maybe I am. But tapping into a vein of archetypal longing made him rich, and reconnected millions of people with ancient values that have resonated down through the centuries.
I think that was a compliment.
lol that was in response to Mizu’s post.
I’ll never forget how, after Tal defeated you in 1960, you studied his game tirelessly until you located his weakness; then in 1961 you came back and kicked his ass. Now that’s chess.
The Battle Of The Mikhails.
No. You’re wrong. The real Stan the Man played for the St. Louis Cardinals. He was the best. An even better human being than he was a great baseball player. And he was not frustrated. He never felt the need to try to impress everyone in the room. It’s really not necessary you know.
You could learn volumes from him Con Troll.
Troll? Hardly. And be careful what you say, I may just bitch slap you in front of everybody. Okay Skippy?
It sounds like you are ready to be taken down a few notches by the entire MDN posts like you were the other day. It must make you feel important.
The Man was an awesome guy. Heard him play his harp in Cooperstown in 1993.
A paean to my hero. Thank you.
But wasn’t Stan ‘the man’ Musial the first?
Yes, indeed! He was first. 🙂
Another frustrated critic… long on criticism but short on words. Maybe, just maybe, you do not have the vocabulary, linguistic or grammatical skills to communicate more than three words and a punctuation at a time. I hope you recover someday. It is not terminal. No matter what your 3rd Grade English teacher told you. You can progress. You can have a fulfilling life of dynamic communicative skill. 🙂
Oh yes… Third grade… Miss Dooley… Hmmmm….
@Stan the Troll
F*** you too asshole.
Thanks for having my back, big guy. 🙂
🙂
Alas and alack, say I, pensively.
I knew Stan Lee. And you Sir, are no Stan Lee.
This is one of the most perceptive and coherent comments about Steve Jobs that I have ever read. Please keep up the good work hannahjs (if that is your real name)..
Microsoft thought we wanted Windows XP on a tablet. Microsoft had led the way and dismally failed. So, all the smart pundits thought Apple would fail at tablets, too.
Windows XP on a tablet for like $2,000 to add “spice” to the deal. A stone age non-Dream Machine.
“I think he knew that this would happen.”
Y’ think, Einstein?
Maybe Steve gave just a couple of tiny clues that he knew EXACTLY what was going to happen.
Sometimes, revenge is best served posthumously. Ballmer T Clown, how do you a compete against a legendary ghost?
answer: the same way you did when Jobs was alive, you simply cannot.
Ballmer can’t even compete against a dead Steve Jobs. Just when Jobs had set things up for the kill he had to leave us. So sad.
well thats my point, even after he is dead his ghost is still kickin’ Ballmer T’s ass.
“…”We have to let go of this notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose…”
– Steve Jobs, 1997
The greatest example ever of “Rope-a-Dope” used in business.
Greatest. Example. Ever.
Lol, yeah…great analogy.
This may have been a rope-a-dope, but it may also have been Steve seeing the future of reality completely devoid of any competition, let alone Microsoft. Steve always said that Apple essentially competed against the future by skating to where the puck was going to be. Apple basically ignores the status quo and its so-called competitors that are so focused on the near term and not the future.
“The next great thing” was OSX.
The next next great thing was the iPod with iTunes. After that the iPhone and THEN the iPad.
Still waiting for my flying car, but I’ll settle for a watch. 😉
Forget iTunes on windows…?
Balmer was right, Apple is great because of developers, developers, developers… they just are developing for iOS, not Microstuft.
If Apple homogenizes iOS and OSX and is careful to cherry pick the best from each, and not over-iOSify OSX or over-OSXify iOS, both the iPad and the Mac will continue their greatness for quite a while.
To a degree Apple has done this. OSX and iOS are different beast for different markets. There is some look and feel that is the same for continuity. The code and SDK is similar so developers can move to one another without a learning curve. However the Mac and iDevice are very different markets. Mac needs to stay open to outside developers, handle complex apps, and connect to a wide range of peripherals. iOS need simplicity, security, and power maintenance. Making one OS would be bad for both worlds.
Agreed. Let’s hope Apple remembers they are, and should continue to be different markets, and doesn’t dumb down the Mac OS. They’ve always been pretty good at optimizing for a device. Save for a few blunders like what they did to the original iMovie, FinalCutPro, and screwing up iTunes 10.7 (no multiple windows), I believe they’ll keep us happy by paying more attention. The last few years have kept them busy trying to balance the similarities and differences between using iOS devices and Macs
Their stuff plays together better than anyone’s, by a long shot.
This too more people are recognizing, and over time will continue because people don’t want the overhead of poorly integrated devices. The PC world has a ways to go to get to the level of integration that Apple has.
That just go to show how many people really never needed a full fledge computer. Personally I only use my iPad for entertainment, reading, watching TV, playing games and light web surfing. I use my Mac Pro and my iMac a hack of a lot more. But that is because I need to as a content creator. But the immense majority of people do not create content except word processing files, presentations and spread sheets. An iPad with a keyboard is more than enough for 90% of the people. The iPad has even driven techno-phobic individuals in to the “computing” world, since even an orangutan can use one.
Meanwhile, Ballmer gave us the Zune,
And perfected Montezuma’s Revenge…..
Ballmer & Gates saw the opportunity like Jobs.
The difference? Ballmer & Gates couldn’t see an OS or Office stream of income off tablets, so…
I am the furthest thing from an apple fanboy, I have a windows 8 laptop, a htc android smartphone, I’ve owned the Microsoft surface rt, galaxy note 10.1, the google nexus 7, galaxy s3, galaxy tab, suffice to say I’m a google/Microsoft user. I am typing this on my new iPad mini, I now only use my pc at night for hulu when I’m going to sleep. This thing is amazing, better than any other tablet I have owned, and this is coming from someone that has spent the last couple years bashing and hating on apple, traded in my iPhone 4 for a galaxy nexus, and traded my MacBook Pro for a Sony viao. In my own personal opinion I still like android on a smartphone, I may even get an s4, but on the tablet front in my eyes android pales in comparison to the iPad. I have even recently been considering switching back to a Mac since windows 8 is a complete and utter mess. It’s like they took what would piss off a competent user and increased it by a factor of 10. Maybe if they shake things up with ios7 and the rumors of the “iPhone math” are true, I may even switch back to an iphone
Welcome to the light… 🙂
Welcome to a brave new world
Tablets are the next generations of computers.
Apple was able to evolve under the reign of Steve Jobs and therefore seized that market. Microsoft was too busy milking it’s Windows and Office business and didn’t see the meteorite coming.