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Last week Frank X. Shaw, VP of corporate communications at Microsoft stated: … most of the people around me were using their iPads exactly as they would a laptop – physical keyboard attached, typing away, connected to a network of some kind, creating a document or tweet or blog or article. In that context, it’s hard to distinguish between a tablet and a notebook or laptop. The form factors are dif

On Mar 18, 2013, Rafael Barbosa Barifouse – Redacao Epoca – Editora Globo asked (and I answered): Q: Why is Samsung creating Tizen? A: I believe they are collaborating on Tizen development because they want an alternative to Android and because Bada was not good enough to meet that goal. Tizen’s roots include contributions from Intel, Nokia and several Japanese companies so it’s not Samsung’s OS p

Tim Cook on the 55 million iPads sold to date: This 55 is something no one would have guessed. Including us. To put it in context, it took us 22 years to sell 55 million Macs. It took us about 5 years to sell 22 million iPods, and it took us about 3 years to sell that many iPhones. And so, this thing is, as you said, it’s on a trajectory that’s off the charts. via Transcript: Apple CEO Tim Cook at

Apple retained its top rank in profitability and regained the top spot in mobile phone revenues. The relative shares of revenues and profits are shown below: Individually, Apple’s share of units, revenues and profits is chronicled below: Apple reached 75% of profit share, nearly 40% of revenue share and 9% of units share. Apple and Samsung combined for about 91% of profits with RIM third at 3.7%,

Thanks to Jeremy Reimer I was able to create the following view into the history of computer platforms. I  added data from the smartphone industry, Apple and updated the PC industry figures with those from Gartner. Note the log scale. The same information is available as an animation in the following video (Music by Nora Tagle): httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h-C6u4yLj4 This data combines severa

The major publicly traded phone vendors have all reported results for the second quarter. Based on the data available so far we can begin putting together a picture of the market. The first picture I’ll draw is usually the last: profitability. The following chart shows operating profit from the sale of mobile phones among the eight vendors I follow (Nokia, Samsung, LG, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola, HTC

When Stephen Elop said that Nokia and Microsoft sought to create a “three horse race” he implied that there were only two viable mobile ecosystems today. With that statement he sought to deprecate or declare “end of life” two platforms: Symbian and MeeGo, implying that Nokia’s efforts at being the third way failed. However, he also implicitly declared irrelevant a larger set of market participants