Wake up to an Apple planet, PC world
http://blogs.computerworld.com/16593/wake_up_to_an_apple_planet_pc_world
Driven by the iPad and iPhone, Apple is the world’s leading personal computer maker — but this isn’t reflected in so-called market share studies from the likes of Gartner or IDC.
An outrageous claim? It isn’t. It is a statement of fact.
This is because at present neither Gartner nor IDC include iPad sales within their PC data calculations — even though they will include figures detailing netbook sales.
They’ve decided — at least for the time being — that Apple’s tablet doesn’t qualify as a netbook, even though many of us acquiring an iPad are doing so in order to use it as a netbook.
Indeed, that’s precisely why some corporate and business users are opting for iPad.
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That truth is that Apple leads the PC industry, delivering quarter after quarter of Mac marketshare growth for the last 13 straight quarters. iPhone has set the standard for what a smartphone should be, and iPad has eaten the netbook market.
With cloud computing — the real thing — just around the corner, then devices such as an iPhone are peers to any desktop,when apps and files are held in the cloud. This is the new PC world. And it is an Apple planet. Get used to it.
(via Instapaper)