One tablet to rule them all, anyone? The latest figures suggest that Android’s not making a great deal of headway against Apple’s uber-popular tablet solution, and may not take significant share for many years. More »
Market analysts Gartner must really love the iPad. Not only have they lowered their annual forecasts for global PC sales by 14.6 per cent for the coming year to 440million, but they’ve also provided a rather absurd reasoning for their economic predictions: iPad’s are really, really popular. Who didn’t see that coming? More »
Many folks think Android is posed for world domination. It ain’t necessarily so. More »
The iPhone 3G may be the most popular phone in the US, but Gartner’s annual phone sales tally still puts Symbian as being the most-used smartphone OS worldwide. Snapping at its heels, BlackBerry’s OS has less than half the sales. More »
According to Gartner there are now more than 1 billion computers in use on this little planet Earth. And not happy with that piece of trivia, they asked their Magic Eight Ball if the number was going to double in early 2014. The answer: “Probably.” What I would like to know is: how many of that billion are Commodore 64s? Unfortunately, the rest of Gartner factoids didn’t offer the answer, but they were almost as interesting.
