Notebook sales plummet steepens: Windows 8 to blame? nahhh... tablets

There are just too many good "Sweeping" rejoinders around here that I would feel bad for pressing "Like" on them all!

Gonna have to hold off on cleaning my screen for awhile

 

This... yes ... >

a 'convertible' is a tablet with a dock. nothing wrong with that at all. a iPAD retina with a Logitech kbd/case is a fine device imho. if it were sold as a unit by apple I guess it would have a different moniker and it would be a 'convertible' of some kind, at a steep markup. i suppose that is coming.

how many minutes will pass before Microsoft swallows up Nokia? you know, for all its faults and its tragically late start, the ship numbers on windows phone 8 are not that bad.... I mean, they are bad in terms of any hope of actually making a stand in the market, but in quarter/over/quarter terms the sales are pretty respectable. to me it shows what might have been but I think the opp is lost unless google somehow shoots itself in both feet and more painful bodily members

 

Well, yes, they are showing respectable growth in a market that's growing wildly. Bottom line is, their market share is in fact dropping. That's pretty much a fatal condition... There is some glimmer of hope for them to establish a foothold in developing countries/emerging markets, and then possibly come back from there, but that's really a wait-and-see kind of thing.