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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 03:41 PM EDT |
The chart is for "smartphones", ie. those running some sort of
computer OS capable of running computer type apps. Where
do you draw the line between smart- and feature-phones?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 08:27 PM EDT |
There were Compaq products running some scaled-down Windows
derivative.
There were a few apps, and (if true) this was
integrated with Active
Directory.
See
Wikipedia
-- traces back to
2003 apparently.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 22 2013 @ 12:29 AM EDT |
Microsoft really did have decent market share at one point, but Nokia,
RIM,
and Apple ate away at that market share. Did you know that if you include
SmartPhones and Tablets in with computers that Microsoft's share of the
OS
market dropped to 24% in 2012?
2012 Sales Share
Report - Tomi Ahonen
Now we get into the fun stuff. Who (besides
Bill Gates) can afford to buy a
new computer? A lot of people are unemployed or
under-employed. A
smartphone or a cheap tablet (or NetBook if you can find one)
is sufficient
for most computing needs.
If you are reducing hardware
spend, you are almost certainly reducing
software spend. Free online services,
plus the relatively inexpensive Apple
and Android App stores are a boon to the
cash strapped consumer.
There have been rumors of layoffs at Intel.
Since Smartphones and Tablets
are heavily biased towards ARM processors, it is
possible that Intel's sales
have dropped. Also AMD's Trinity laptop chips were
rated fairly well, and
may have taken some market.
On the software
side, Microsoft is heavily invested in X86/AMD64
processors, which is mainly
Intel. If Intel's sales are down, Microsoft's sales
are probably down
too.
Yes, some people need keyboards. I do a lot of writing, and I
love the
keyboard on my Mac. But I know a guy who wrote a novel on a smartphone
with a Bluetooth keyboard.
Gamers still need performance, but how
many gamers are currently out of
work, nursing along a five year old
rig?
There's a lot of pressure on the industry currently. Tomi
expects Microsoft's
share of sales to drop this year. I've been predicting the
same thing for
years. The real weakness at Microsoft is Office. Currently only
Windows
(24%) and OSX (1%) can run Office. Even if ported to IOS and Android,
Microsoft won't be able to charge the enormous premiums it has charged
historically.
Kaboom.
Not this year. Probably not 2014. But
2015 could be pretty dangerous in
Redmond.
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 22 2013 @ 02:10 AM EDT |
Microsoft had Pocket PC, Windows CE, Windows Mobiles, and two or three other
names for their OS for phones, PDAs, and similar devices.
For almost five years the lineup was
* Symbian;
* RIM;
* Microsoft;
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