Once again, Gartner and IDC are playing the PC sales estimate game, and the ultimate question is whom do you trust? As far as Apple is concerned, it would seem they would prefer to believe Gartner, although the real numbers are already known, ready to disclose on January 27. But having a hint of what […]

There’s so much wacky talk about tablets, iOS, Android, Apple, Samsung and sometimes the Microsoft Surface that it’s hard to keep pace with it all. First, tablets were on the ascent, rapidly soaring past PC sales. After all, PC sales were yesterday’s news. But now we have yet another projection from industry analyst IDC that […]

On the surface at least, it would seem that the iPad is losing market share real fast. Just this week came a published report, citing IDC — which is sometimes wrong I might add — that the iPad’s share of the Chinese market has slumped below 30%. Overall, Apple had a 32.4% share across the planet in the last […]

In the run-up to the release of Apple’s finances for the March quarter — its second fiscal quarter — the general patter from the critics was that Apple was in big trouble. iPhone sales must be flagging. Reports from the supply chain said so, and, further, Apple must heed the wake-up call and right the […]