Originally posted by Aristophanes
And if you follow some of the supply chain news this is just the beginning. Big chip sales projections and raw materials are all down.
If you look at it form a user's perspective the workstation computer isn't going anywhere. Some mobile workers ail use laptops, the majority will use desktops.
But for consumers and home users a completely different story (and increasingly, education). There the phone and tablet are starting to rule supreme. People don't want a "workstation" desktop at home and laptops can be too expensive unless they are crippled netbooks. Personal/home use of computers is increasingly veering towards tablet and AppleTV and smartphones. ...
I'm not sure if your picture is complete, or does it mean a lot when presented as such.
The market surely moves towards tablets and smartphones, but on the other hand, as Tim Cook showed during the WWDC conference, the Macintosh market grew 100% in the last 5 years, compared to PC market growth of paltry 18% in the same that period. How that happened?
What numbers describe is that people are fed up with lack of innovation, not with PCs per se. Fact is that not a single PC vendor company apart from Apple has innovated anything in the computer-related arena since the first iMac — they are all copying what Apple is doing, and using inferior software and user-experience to deliver it. Therefore stagnation.
Apple is innovating madly and therefore can sell tablets, laptops and desktops at a much higher margin than any PC vendor. Where majority of mass-market PCs fall into the sub-$1000 territory, Apple's only computer selling for less than $1000 is Mac Mini.
The iMac is practically the benchmark for all other desktops, and a new Mac Pro is the crown of the workstation idea. I know a great deal of people that use their iMac as a both desktop computer, and a TV, but I didn't see anyone yet doing same with their Windows PCs.
So if anyone is interested to grow despite what numbers say, the answer is simple — innovation. Considering that we are moving into the post-PC era, cameras must be aware of it. And since all tablets and smartphones used for photo manipulation and share are also wireless-aware, in one way or the other, modern cameras must be too wireless aware — in one way or the other.
Last edited by Uluru; 06-17-2013 at 09:02 PM.