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The Fine Art Of Predicting iPhone Sales

March 31, 2011

Horace Dediu of Asymco shows you how.

Why Attend WWDC If You’re Already An Experienced Apple Developer?

March 31, 2011

Brad Larson: Simple questions can be answered by reading the appropriate documentation, viewing videos, or consulting resources like Stack Overflow, but the more complex issues that experienced developers run into sometimes can only be solved with help from the Apple engineers. I prepare questions for months in advance of the show, and usually have all [...]

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Two Ways Apple Beat Acer

March 31, 2011

Hamranhansenhansen: Ultimately, Apple humiliated Acer from both sides: Out-mobiled — iPad is the cheap, simple, mobile computer the netbook wasn’t. Out-performed — MacBook Air 11-inch is the tiny but full-powered computer the netbook wasn’t.

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Who Disrupted Whom?

March 31, 2011

Horace Dediu of Asymco: Today Acer CEO and President Gianfranco Lanci resigned with immediate effect. Acer is in trouble. You can read more on Acer’s current problems in the wake of the downward revision of its sales targets for two quarters here: Acer Should Overhaul Its Operation: Stan Shih | CENS.com – The Taiwan Economic [...]

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One Way The iPad Is A Paradigm Shift

March 31, 2011

Granmastak: The iPad paradigm shift is this: our kids, parents and even grandparents can use this thing with no training. Windows on the other hand? It took a year for the old lady down the street to understand defrag and even scroll bars or minimized vs closed applications. She could use an iPad in 5 [...]

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Thoughts on Dell, Microsoft, HP …

March 31, 2011

… and how they’re losing out to Apple. Also, Mac OS X Lion, iOS, iPad retinal displays and mechanical indexers, courtesy of mknopp.

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Race To The Bottom

March 31, 2011

Suddenly Newton: If netbooks are a race to the bottom, then congratulations, Acer. You’ve reached the bottom. How do you like it down there?

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iPad vs Netbooks – Developer Community

March 31, 2011

TenoBell: The iPad is selling in a way that netbooks never did. Netbooks did not grow a developer community around them. Sales projections of the iPad completely blow away projections of all netbooks combined. A hugely growing developer community is spurring around the iPad.

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Future iPad vs Netbook Sales

March 31, 2011

addabox: I slice it this way: tablet sales are in the process of totally eclipsing netbooks sales, which is remarkable given the response to the iPad at release and the very recent notions of how netbooks were set to take over the world. … and … I’ll say that again: until a little over a [...]

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