Year: 2010

Greg’s Bite: iPad eats into the PC market

Greg’s Bite: iPad eats into the PC market

Posted by | Oct 18, 2010 | , |

By Greg Mills

The PC world has strangely stopped worrying — at least publicly — so much about the iPad and the tablet market in general. At least for now.  

Frankly, the underlying problem for PC tablets is that in addition to being caught completely flatfooted in the smart phone software market, Microsoft has also hopelessly bungled the tablet revolution as well. It appears Microsoft is doomed to ride the PC into the ground while the smartphone and tablet markets take over the consumer computer market.

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Tablet sales grow, netbooks sales shrink

Tablet sales grow, netbooks sales shrink

Posted by | Oct 18, 2010 | |

According to new forecasts from ABI Research (http://www.abiresearch.com), just over 11 million media tablets and  43 million netbooks will ship worldwide this year. That’s somewhat lower than observers expected at the end of last year based on the diminutive computers’ remarkable showing in the period following their introduction, per the research group.

Nonetheless, says ABI Research principal analyst Jeff Orr, “43 million netbook shipments are good growth, just not the meteoric pace of the past couple of years.”

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My predictions for today’s Apple financial results

Posted by | Oct 18, 2010 | , |

Apple will announce its latest financial results today. Here’s what the Sellers Research Firm (that’s me) is forecasting:

Sales of 4.02 million Macs.

Sales of 9.76 million iPods.

Sales of 12.37 million iPhones.

Sales of 6.1 million iPads.

Earnings per share of US$4.75.

We’ll be covering the financial announcements. Join us to see how accurate I am.

— Dennis Sellers

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Analyst thinks Apple’s financials may disappoint

Posted by | Oct 18, 2010 | , |

Apple will announce its latest financial earnings today. And Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster thinks the results may disappoint investors.

Why? “Silicon Alley Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-earnings-2010-10?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Falleyinsider%2Fsilicon_alley_insider+%28Silicon+Alley+Insider%29) says the analyst told clients that the iPad has a lower profit margin than investors think. Also, supply-constraints have prevented Apple from selling as many iPads as it could have.

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MacBook, iPad sleeves made from Irish Tweed

MacBook, iPad sleeves made from Irish Tweed

Posted by | Oct 16, 2010 | |

Foof (http://foofshop.com) now has available 100% wool Irish tweed protective foofbag sleeves for the MacBook, MacBook Pro and iPad, as well as small foofpod pouches for the iPhone/iPod touch.

Two new designs are available: a classic blue herringbone called ‘BlueBone’ and a retro orange hocksack called Oraiste. The Irish tweed is woven in Ireland from 100% lambswool. The soft case sleeves are hand made ethically in Australia.

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