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    Newsletter Issue #566: The iPad is Cannibalizing PC Sales Except When it’s Not

    October 4th, 2010

    As industry analysts look to the drop in sales of netbooks, there has been the assumption that the people who used to purchase those dreadful shrunken PCs are opting to buy iPads instead. That has been a growing meme in a number of tech columns. That is, until a recent survey from the NPD Group […]


    The PC Industry’s Worst Nightmare

    September 9th, 2010

    Just the other night, while watching the DVR playback of a TV show, I had to fast forward through several iPad ads. It seemed almost every other station break had an iPad announcement, the very same one! You just know Apple was sending a message, and not just to potential customers. Now running the same […]


    The Eternal Apple/Media Disconnect

    August 3rd, 2010

    Over the years, the Mac remained a well-kept secret in the personal computing universe, nearly non-existent except for a devotees among content creators, including musicians, graphic artists and film editors. This unfortunate disconnect meant that Mac software was generally confined to the back of a retail computer store in the days before the Internet went […]


    So is the Mac at Death’s Door?

    March 11th, 2010

    When I suggested recently that we had returned to the silly season, perhaps a little earlier than I might have expected, I didn’t know how right I was. A recent article, from a site that I won’t name, is now suggesting that the iPad is the first nail in the Mac’s coffin, that it won’t […]