Posts by Capnbob

Quote: Originally Posted by Braden99 As I’m not a shareholder, like most consumers, I'll judge the difference on profit alone, not share price, with Apple making US$ 25.922 billion, and Microsoft making US$ 23.15 billion in 2011...

Quote: Originally Posted by Michael Scrip RIM won't go out of business... but I think most of their business will go back to enterprise. But most enterprises are enabling open choice for handsets (cheaper than BES and you don't have...

Quote: Originally Posted by SDW2001 In their defense, they are still profitable and just beat expectations for the quarter. The future obviously doesn't look bright. Gizmodo made the case that the Playbook might end up taking down the...

My question is what does Samsung count as a smartphone? They just announced this week that they have sold 30M Galaxy branded smartphones (since April last year - S and S2). Even if that were quite heavily weighted towards the last...

Quote: Originally Posted by Habañero lotta big numbers in that article, but the math suggests iPads are... what... 2% of all US web traffic? But some key stats would include: Is it more or less than 2% of devices? What proportion of...

Hot damn. The plot thickens. I always though a lot of this sue-age was just to keep the oppo off balance, but this (and the Oracle suit) might actually come to something.

Quote: Originally Posted by isaidso Boy, I wish people would stop misusing the term "cannibalizing". Cannibalization is where one product cuts into a companies own similar product line. Not where a product surplants a...

It's a little clickbait-y to pronouce this as though it is the first time it has happened. Surely the 2008 & 2009 figures also had wireless devices ahead of computers by semi-conductor value? PS 1st!

Funny how Balls-mer is shouting about 350M new PCs per year when he just announced 400M Windows 7 licenses sold. Everyone thought that was so impressive yesterday. Now we see that it is really just over a year's new PC sales. Since I...

Quote: Originally Posted by robkowa As a regular reader of the usual Apple sites (being an Apple fanboy myself), one regularly gets to read gleeful stories about how "RIM CEOs didn't see X coming", "Ballmer didn't see Y...