Apple for the day

Brian Chen has an article in The New York Times about the iPad:

The iPad is defined as a tablet, but you might as well call it a personal computer. Over the holiday season, about one in six people buying computers around the world bought Apple’s tablet, according to research from Canalys.
The report said that, when tablets were included, worldwide PC shipments over the fourth quarter increased twelve percent compared with the previous year. Apple led the computer market with 22.9 million iPads and 4.1 million Macs sold. Hewlett-Packard was in a distant second place with fifteen million PCs shipped, and Lenovo shipped just under fifteen million computers.
Amazon and Samsung are quickly gaining traction in the computer market with their tablets. Amazon shipped nearly five million tablets, including its Kindle Fire, over the quarter, and Samsung shipped nearly eight million. Over all, tablet shipments accounted for about one-third of the PC market over the quarter.
The research firm IDC reported similar numbers on PC shipments over the fourth quarter, but did not include tablets in its analysis. Typically research firms don’t count tablets as a PC, because they are quite different from traditional laptops and desktops. But, when sales of these two categories are stacked side by side, the numbers give perspective for how quickly the tablet is dissolving the old-school PC.
The Canalys report certainly makes the late Steve Jobs sound prescient. When he introduced the iPad 2 in 2011, he said tablet devices were ushering people into a “post-PC” era:
A lot of folks in this tablet market are rushing in and they’re looking at this as the next PC. The hardware and the software are done by different companies. And they’re talking about speeds and feeds just like they did with PCs.
And our experience and every bone in our body says that that is not the right approach to this. That these are post-PC devices that need to be even easier to use than a PC. That need to be even more intuitive than a PC. And where the software and the hardware and the applications need to intertwine in an even more seamless way than they do on a PC.
It appears that era has already arrived.

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