You know everyone who said that the iPad was a pointless device? How wrong they’ve been proven. According to the analysts at Telsyte, Australians have bought more tablets in the first five months of this year than all of year combined, with Apple unsurprisingly leading the charge. More »
Normally we don’t care much for analyst talk, but in the case of Adnaan Ahmad’s disparaging open letter to Nokia it’s worth taking a look – if only for the advice he dishes out about adopting Windows Phone 7. More »
Palm is dying. They’ve been haemorrhaging money since late last year, and yesterday’s woeful earnings announcement sealed its fate. It didn’t have to be this way. But it’s been coming for a long time. More »
Way to go, semiconductor suppliers. Thanks to you, we’re all going to be paying more for our PCs going forward. Possibly a lot more. More »
We’re not the only ones who think Nokia is doomed if they keep turning out smartphones like the N97. Generator Research says that Nokia’s smartphone marketshare will plummet from over 40 percent today to only 20 percent by 2013. More »
We’ll see plenty of “Pre sells X units in Y amount of time; not as many as iPhone” stories in the next year—in fact, we already have. That may be the wrong way to look at it. More »
Gene Munster, an Apple analyst, says that Apple’s likely to release a 7 to 10-inch touchscreen tablet some time in the early half of 2010. Usually analysts’ predictions are sketchy, but Munster’s is slightly less so.
Analysts at Gartner are expecting PC shipments to drop 12%, to 257m computers. I’m surprised that number doesn’t go to half that considering, generally speaking, PCs are fast enough these days that we can all wait a year to buy a new one. Gartner also believes that desktop sales will drop 32% and laptop demand will rise 9%, on account of those spiffy netbooks everyone is carrying around in their giant custom attached pants pockets. [NYT]
One would think that a shitty economy = more cheap stuff for us consumers, right? You know, the whole “go out and shop!” brand of problem-solving we’ve become accustomed to? Not this time.
