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First thoughts on CES and tablets

Posted by Kathleen Maher on January 10th 2010 | Permalink
Categories: Blogs, The Market
Tags: nvidia apple marvell ces tablets publishing entourage asus ebooks

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CES has dawned bright and clear. The crowds have come and there is interest in buying – or at least that’s how it’s looking now. Plenty of news is coming out of CES, but in the PC world, tablets are consuming the attention of the buyers in the aisles as well as reporters, and we’re pretty fascinated as well. For the past couple of years, Amazon and Sony have helped make a convincing case for the eBook as people are not only buying the devices, they’re downloading and reading more as well. In fact, according to a December report from the…

Tablets — the canary in the PC tunnel?

Posted by Jon Peddie on July 11th 2011 | Permalink
Categories: Blogs, The Market
Tags: apple tablets economy

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The second quarter by all accounts so far has not been a blockbuster, in fact in some places it’s been a career buster. The DJIA wobbled, not many new jobs were created, and the politics in the US got even more rancorous if such a thing is possible. In the PC industry the major bright spot had been tablets. Called computer tablets, media tablets, tablet PCs, or just tablets; reinvented by Apple and followed by a dozen or more imitators, tablets excited the industry — the latest great thing. No one needs a tablet. It doesn’t do anything that can’t be…

WebOS—the short term, instant developer opportunity

Posted by Mitchell Weinstock on August 25th 2011 | Permalink
Categories: Blogs, Content Creation
Tags: market mobile hp software tablets apps

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With all the discussion swirling around the sell off of the HP Tablet at $99 this week, there is a discussion point that has been overlooked. There is now a brand new business opportunity.Generally it is very hard to get developers to target devices that don’t have a fairly large install base without serious incentives beyond the token free device to work with.Developers now have an instant total available market of 500K units. Normally it would take a company like Motorola Mobility 7-12 months to reach that sell through on a single carrier focused smartphone type device. Since the number of…