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BGR reported on PC makers mocking Apple’s Retina MacBook. ZenBook UX305 is even slimmer than the new Macbook. It's also about half the price. #Incredible pic.twitter.com/ATSENGVMIi — ASUS North America (@ASUSUSA) March 11, 2015 https://twitter.com/lenovo/status/575383282256318464 The Asus is 6.1% thinner and the Lenovo is 2.3% thinner. Of course, it is hard for Asus or Lenovo…
Mobile leverage
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Benedict Evans on mobile leverage. Personal: First, they are not shared and they are personal. Of those 1.6-1.7 bn PCs, a little over half are consumer devices, and a large proportion of those are shared. The others are owned by companies, and at the very least they’re restricted in what you can do with them…
The Next Web reports on Windows 8 selling 100 million copies less than Windows 7 after 15 months from launch. Windows 7 launched on October 22, 2009. In October 2010, Microsoft revealed that it had sold over 240 million Windows 7 licenses in the operating system’s first year, and in January 2011 that number grew…
Apple passing Microsoft
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Benedict Evans reports on how Apple sold more computers than Windows PC sold globablly in Q4 2013. This is a pretty good illustration of the scale of mobile: Apple limits itself only to the high end of the mobile market but still sells more units than the whole PC industry. It is also significant to…
The Guardian discusses the impact of the value trap on Windows PC makers. The problem for Windows PC makers is that they are caught in the “value trap”. Even as prices are being forced down by commoditisation and slumping demand, they have no obvious way to capture any of the money that a consumer who…