Posts Tagged ‘iPad’

News reached us last week that India’s government has an ambitious project underway to build and offer a functional tablet computing device for just $35. The Western world was quick to question India’s ability to build the device, especially since a previously announced $10 PC did not materialize. This new project has already a mockup and is seeking manufacturer interest. Would you buy it? Update: We originally published this article on July 25, 2010. We added current information from the actual release of the device today, but found it worthwhile to re-release the article, as the content is still accurate and reiterates our analysis and opinion on the opportunity of this device.

Samsung could be acquiring the rights to WebOS to build a defense against Google’s Motorola acquisition and embarrass HP at the same time: Samsung could not possibly screw the old Palm crew more than HP did.

Market research firm IHS (formerly iSuppli) has updated its shipment forecast for tablets. The iPad is now believed to dominate the segment through 2013 and drive the tablet market to more than 275 million units by 2015.

Apple iPad web browsing market share surpasses the nearest competitor by a factor of 53.

Intel’s business model is based on selling more chips every year. The decline of the netbook as well as Apple’s record iPad numbers are a substantial threat to Intel – and the company needs to react. Can the ultrabook deflect the focus on the iPad to PCs again?

There is an growing notion that it is impossible to compete with the Apple iPad. The tablet market isn’t a tablet market. It’s an iPad market and it is largely limited to Apple. Does that mean that PC makers have to surrender?

My mantra this year will be “another month, another one or two iPad clones that won’t sell”. This month it is Sony that is proving my point.

There is always a way to blame someone else. Apple denies that it is tracking the location of iPhone users, which really appears to be a problem of semantics. However, pigs do fly as the company responded to recent concerns of privacy violations over location tracking and Apple noted that it will make changes to the way it stores location data.

Apple reported another stunning quarter result that puts the company on track of $100 billion in sales this year. Apple shrugged off concerns that the current trend is just a blip in time and that Android would become a second Windows for Apple. There are also signs that Apple will become even more secretive about its products and what makes them successful, while the company is openly confirming that it is denying its users access to certain information and services.

No tablet besides the iPad is selling in volume at the moment.  The Galaxy Tablet, Samsung’s big hope, sold about 250,000 units in the high selling fourth quarter even though stores had around 2,000,000 to sell. Motorola’s Xoom supposedly shipped in similar numbers and since it has launched sold around 100,000. This is against 300,000 for the iPad 1 over its launch weekend and most estimates have the iPad 2 at around twice that during it’s launch weekend and Apple appears to be selling every one of those they can build.  The yablet market is currently only an iPad market.

The iPad and its success may be real, but there it has also created surreal trend in the IT industry that causes high-profile CEOs to lose their jobs as company boards are in an increasing panic that they may not be able to be second in line in the tablet race. Huh?

Nokia has taken off the gloves and now accuses that all Apple products violate Nokia products in one way or the other. It’s surely attention getting move, but will it help Nokia to survive?