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Even if one counts tablets as PCs, 2011 saw smartphone sales eclipse PC sales for the first...

  • Friday, February 3, 2012, 2:44 PM ET
    Even if one counts tablets as PCs, 2011 saw smartphone sales eclipse PC sales for the first time: Canalys estimates global smartphone sales rose 63% to 487.7M, while "PC" sales (63M tablets included) rose 15% to 415M. Android accounted for 49% of those smartphone sales, and the iPhone 19%. Soaring smartphone and tablet usage, partly at the expense of PC usage, has major implications for many Internet companies.
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    Kinda odd why Android is totally flooding in the smartphone space but flopping badly in the tablet space.... carrier meddling ?
    3 Feb 2012, 03:14 PM Reply Like
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    Well, have you ever realized that android is not a single entity (like iOS-.Apple)...it's easy to flood the market by selling cheap/free/low standard android phones by handing over those phones to people who cannot afford apple phones and cost nothing to the carriers. Also android is a pathetic experience on tablets. All apps look like straight port of phone apps :-) os is buggy, slow and stutters compared to the magical scrolling on iPads... People won't buy even if you sell those for throwaway prices (think Coby, etc.)
    16 Apr 2012, 07:19 PM Reply Like
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    The PC, will expericance the fate of the typewriter...see ya. leap PUTS are the way to go.......
    3 Feb 2012, 03:47 PM Reply Like
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    so true... ever since I acquired the iPad, my laptop usage has been cut by 50%, if not more

    other than watching DVDs and logging onto corporate remote desktop, I don't need the laptop anymore.
    3 Feb 2012, 03:52 PM Reply Like
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