Re:Ten predictions (2004)
by huxley on Friday February 15, 2013 @12:25PM
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9. I agree it's a miss but since then:
* Gateway was bought at a firesale price by Acer
* IBM sold off their PC business to Lenovo
* both Dell and HP have been in the doldrums in terms of PC/laptop sales and they both desperately have tried to milk the enterprise software and services business
Apple's total revenues come to about 69% of the combined revenue of HP, Dell, Acer and Lenovo ... so a miss since the iPhone/iPad have been what boosted Apple rather "laptops" per se (and certainly not to complete equality in revenues by 2010), but it's an interesting miss.
* Gateway was bought at a firesale price by Acer
* IBM sold off their PC business to Lenovo
* both Dell and HP have been in the doldrums in terms of PC/laptop sales and they both desperately have tried to milk the enterprise software and services business
Apple's total revenues come to about 69% of the combined revenue of HP, Dell, Acer and Lenovo ... so a miss since the iPhone/iPad have been what boosted Apple rather "laptops" per se (and certainly not to complete equality in revenues by 2010), but it's an interesting miss.