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Quote: Originally Posted by jungmark How do you define a PC? For the purpose of comparing market share of device like the articles about. Screen with separate keyboard and pointing device (mouse, trackpad etc). It's fair enough to say the ta…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Something else happened in 2010: iPad, a highly mobile personal computer with a tablet form factor. Shortly after it went on sale, Gartner and IDC stopped counting tablets as Personal Computers. Well not …
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Quote: Originally Posted by genovelle I'm having a problem wrapping my mind around the fact that Apple is still by far the most valuable company by Market Value at 475 B, Exxon at 407 B, Google at 345 B, and MS at 317 B. The only company in 2 …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich I think it's going to be Alan Mullally. He's been an excellent CEO for Ford and he has an engineering background. Technology wouldn't scare him and he should be able to go after Microsoft's money losin…
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Its a semi interesting report but also fairly predictable. Apple and Samsung are the market leaders so they are maximising profits. Everyone else needs to grow so they are purposefully spending all there profits plus any extra they can afford to gai…
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Wow someone really likes writing articles about the surface to mention it in an article on a cook book. 10 - 15 devs over 9 months is a lot of resource! Just shy of £2 million. Must be an epic cook book.
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheOtherGeoff local maxima. the difference between 'apps' and 'channels' is the need for a common taxonomy and search lexicon. The problem with 'TV' (vs music vs apps) is that I want bits and pieces of all the co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Richard Getz iTunes is not just used for an iPod, but mostly used to buy, rent, and consume content. HBO was worldwide figures also. Okay, if you rent a movie on iTunes or Apple TV today, you can't see that o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacAir One year later, not to mention price discrepancies. The sooner they realize Geo-restrictions are garbage, the better for them. Meanwhile, I know 0 people that buy TV shows and that is the major reason. It ju…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacAir And in some cases it should be used much more. You just have to live outside the USA to understand that. Piracy sometimes is the only way that some people have to access TV shows (that take years to reach the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Richard Getz I thought iTunes was available on Mac and PC, has that changed? /s HBO has 114 million subscribers while iTunes has 575 million so if you were going to product content exclusive for HBO, you would be…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil But but but but no one uses FaceTime! I use it a lot to speak to my family. Mainly because you can't guarantee the others are actually going to ring on their iPads. I would say a significant percenta…
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Quote: Originally Posted by freediverx The problem is that the Surface is not a very good tablet. The operating system and applications are not truly optimized for touch screen use, and the 16:9 aspect ratio makes it virtually useless in port…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Richard Getz Apple gets into lots of businesses it did not start out understanding, but learned very well. Computers, Music, Phones, Mapping, Manufacturing, etc., etc.. Apple was all about hardware, then software, …
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Sounds mostly like analysts have no idea what Apple is going to do, and at this point Apple also quite possibly aren't sure what they want to do. TVs are logical, but margins are low. Watch's are in the news but the market for that kind of watch wi…
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digitalclips wrote: » Exactly. I'd like to see them go all the way. Let's see them give Office and Windows away for free and wait for the noise of a drain emptying ... I got Windows and Office free with my Surface. All RT tablets come with o…
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quadra 610 wrote: » I thought MS didn't see iWork as a threat? After all, isn't Office supposed to be MS' core business? I think thet see Google doc as a far bigger threat. They've been talking a out these updates for months in response to Goo…
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Huh, first time ive noticed a game come out on ios and windows phone at the same time. Not something you generally expect to see.
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More than anything I think this shows a general market trend. Maintaining sales of £500-£600 phones is going to be hard. Particularly if you consider the iPhone 3G only cost £350 and since then £100 phones have improved to the point where they do th…
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I sold my iPhone 3G a few months ago for £75 (less ebay fees). Great for me but the people buying these things for this amount must be insane. They quite clearly just want an Apple device over anything else. But that phone was seriously slow an an…