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When Apple launched its iPad in 2010 a new device market was born. With Apple’s success competitors soon launched their tablets. It appeared that the PC was to be replaced by the tablet. Of course it was not, as we explained here. But after a few years of triple digit growth the appetite for tablets […] Read more »
Last week The METISfiles analyst Marcel Warmerdam was invited to join IDG’s webcast on desktop virtualization led by Tom Sanders. Other participants were William van Collenburg from VMware and Erik Lenten from Cisco. Here’s our take on it. Desktop Virtualization (DV) has been around for a while but, in all honesty, so far it has […] Read more »
Microsoft has put a lot of eggs in the Windows 8 basket but they don’t have much of a choice. The PC market has peaked and its base will slowly fade. The tablet market is buoying for some years now but Microsoft’s tablets are only now beginning to hit the shelves in some countries. The […] Read more »
Q3 2012 results from HP showed a massive loss of almost $9 billion. This is by far the biggest loss in HP’s history. Should we fear the collapse of the big tech giant? The facts: Q3 2012 shows $29.7 billion in revenue and a loss of $9 billion before taxes. Q3 2011 showed $31.2 billion […] Read more »
In 3001 Frank Poole was brought back alive after floating in space for about a 1000 years after HAL got a mind of its own. Being revived, Frank was at first not really connected to his new environment, hardly able to communicate; things had definitely changed. Then he got his Brain Cap that directly connected […] Read more »
Market researchers need to define what features make a workstation more than a PC, or a ‘smart’ phone more than a feature phone, if they want to size and forecast their markets. In the case of tablets there are significant challenges as these products are the conflux of a number of different products, business models […] Read more »