Worldwide PC sales will see only a single-digit increase in 2009 with growth next year reaching only 4.3 percent - a nearly 75 percent reduction over prior expectations of a 11.9 percent increase, a research firm announced Thursday.
The picture for Apple sales appears brighter than the glum outlook for overall PC demand. Earlier this week, Piper Jaffray’s Apple watcher Gene Munster said he expects Mac sales to grow 8 percent to 16 percent when Apple reports in December.
Researchers at iSuppli said the drastically lower expectations were due to the embattled economy.
“The result of the financial turmoil is less money to spend,” iSuppli analyst Matthew Wilkins said. “With less money to spend, application markets, like PCs, have been impacted.” Wilkins said in a statement.
Notebook computer sales will tripled as demand for desktops decline.
Sales of desktop PCs in 2009 are expected to fall five percent with notebooks growing 15 percent as demand for low-cost “netbooks,” according to iSuppli.
Those netbooks could be one of the few high points in sluggish computer sales. On Wednesday, IDC announced chips such as Intel’s Atom processor aimed at the netbook market would grow by 8.3 percent amid gloomy projections for the overall chip sector.
A day before cutting its prediction for PC sales, iSuppli announced it expects chip demand to fall 2 percent instead of grow by 3.5 percent as it had announced just last month.
Written by Ed Sutherland | Source: http://cultofmac.com
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Babies? Yes, babies! That’s all it is! Babies!
Isn’t there a law against this or something?
Wait - there’s two apps here. Babies and Babies Free.
The only difference I can see between them is that Babies costs a dollar and is described as: “Look at babies until you cannot look at babies no more! There is no end to the babies!”
Whereas Babies Free is merely “All the babies you will ever want to look at!”
I see, so there’s a clear functionality difference here. The free Babies app imposes restrictions on the amount of baby viewing. Users are limited to just the babies they will ever want to see; to see babies until you can no longer do so requires the pro-level upgrade. Figures.
So that’s all cleared up then.
Written by Giles Turnbull | Source: http://cultofmac.com
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Apple, long viewed as primarily consumer-oriented, now supplies more smartphones to corporations, taking the No. 2 spot from Palm’s Treo and breathing down the neck of RIM, according to a survey released Thursday.
Apple’s iPhone now has 14 percent of the corporate market. Palm’s Treo fell to 11 percent and third place while RIM’s BlackBerry held 76 percent of the market, according to a ChangeWave Research survey of IT spending plans.
Apple’s gains came mostly at the expense of Palm, which lost 4 percent of its marketshare to the iPhone. Meanwhile, RIM saw its lead trimmed by one point.
Although one analyst described the iPhone as often just corporate bling, the shifting numbers indicate an attempt to keep ahead of the curve in terms of the iPhone in a business.
“IT managers don’t want to be caught flat-footed,” Kevin Burden, ABI Research’s chief wireless analyst, told Cult of Mac.
The iPhone is making inroads on the Treo because of Palm’s uncertainty.
“There is a fear about how long Palm is going to last,” Burden said.
Unlike Palm, RIM has an infrastructure and product family that cannot easily be converted to another platform - a major reason why plans to buy Blackberrys fell by just one point.
In terms of expected sales, 22 percent of corporations said they plan to purchase an iPhone, up from 17 percent in August. Future orders of Treos will drop to 5 percent from 6 percent in August. Market leader RIM fell to 78 percent of expected sales, down from the 79 percent planned in August, according to ChangeWave.
Apple’s iPhone shows particular strength among small-to-medium businesses.
The news comes amid rough times for IT budgets. The ChangeWave survey found nearly half — 45 percent — of the 1,926 IT managers question plan to cut spending. However, 35 percent of IT planner expect to purchase smartphone with the next three months.
Earlier this month, the iPhone was named a top pick among businesses in a customer satisfaction survey conducted by J.D. Power and Associates.
Written by Ed Sutherland | Source: http://cultofmac.com
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Apple released a new version of the iPhone firmware tonight that brings with it a lot of fixes and enhancements, but if you are hoping to unlock your 3G iPhone, heed the warning of the iPhone Dev Team to wait until the iPhone 2.2 update is better understood before installing it. They haven’t released an [...]
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As the holidays loom ever closer and the global economic get worse and worse, Apple’s doing its bit to encourage a little seasonal spending.
The new iPhone Your Life section on apple.com is full of tips and tricks for new iPhone users, encouraging them to dive into the App Store and look around.
There are recommendations and staff picks, and on the Top Apps page there’s limited web-based access to best selling apps in a range of categories - the first time I’ve seen Apple replicating some of the App Store functionality on the web.
The Tips and Tricks page is also a good starting point for Christmas Day iPhone newbies (of whom, I have no doubt, there will be many).
(Via John Gruber)
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