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Google’s Android Comes to a Fork in the Road

Google’s Android Comes to a Fork in the Road

by Peter Kastner on April 21, 2011 in Mobile Technology

Earlier this week, I wrote that Google was not treating its smartphone and tablet operating system, Android, with the software product support to ODM’s and customers needed to make Android a strong ecosystem-competitor to Apple’s iOS, iPhone and iPad. That puts the companies that rely on Android in their products between a rock and a [...]

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Is The PC Dead?

by Roger Kay on March 27, 2011 in Personal Computing

Smart Devices Will Lap PCs in 2011 This post first appeared in Forbes.com Feb. 28, 2011. Smartphones are upon us, and so are tablets, and some other new ways individuals can get on the Internet are likely to arrive in the next few years as well.  So, will the PC remain central, play some sort [...]

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Apple’s Strategic Advantage

by Tim Bajarin on March 5, 2011 in Personal Computing

When you think about Apple’s strategic advantage over competitors, the fact that they have the brains of Steve Jobs, Jonathan Ives and other top visionaries at the company comes to mind. It is true that having this type of brainpower at the top gives them quite an advantage over their competition. But it would be [...]

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Is an iPad a PC?

by Rob Enderle on March 4, 2011 in Mobile Technology

Boy this sounds like a simple question doesn’t it because we know an iPad is basically a big iPod Touch and there is no doubt an iPod touch isn’t a PC right?   But now think how it is being used, over the last week two of the analysts sitting with me had left their PCs [...]

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Why Windows 8 Can Stop the iPad

by Rob Enderle on March 4, 2011 in Personal Computing

We tend to be a species that likes flashy things and the latest flashy thing is the iPad and heck even I want one. But one thing analysts are supposed to do is look at historic trends and looking back the flashiest thing doesn’t always win out. Recall Client/Server computing and UNIX? It was the [...]

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