Sunday, January 23, 2011

The new world of the threat to the portable tablet

Apple figures, much better than expected, have given the iPad as the last great technological revolution. The company's apple in the last quarter showed a net profit of more than 4,400 million euros. Almost double than the same period in 2009. Sales of iPhone, iPad and Mac computers have closed a turnover of 26,740 million.

Your tablet, since it hit the market in March 2010, has sold 14 million units worldwide. Only in the last quarter has been on the market iPad 7.3 million versus 4.13 million computers. The secrecy is intrinsic to the company which runs Steve Jobs. His office in Madrid is limited to global figures give no breakdown by country.

K-Tuin, the largest distributor of the brand in Spain, also sheds light, but explained that the star of Christmas have been the iPad and accessories. "Large and small treat it as something valuable, customized," says Ricardo Prieto, manager of its stores in the capital. Morgan Stanley reflects a drop in sales of notebook computers from 12% in the U.S..

In May last year conducted a survey revealing data: 44% of Americans iPad was shopping for a laptop instead. These numbers give reason to Jobs when in June 2010 stated that "the end of the PC is inevitable." The consulting firm Deloitte expected to overtake sales of tablet computers in this exercise.

In a Jan. 11 report says, "The PC market is standardized and the various options open another field tablets." This same company named 2010 as "the year of the netbook" computers very light and value. This is where the great battle being waged between these tablets and small laptops. In the latest edition of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, manufacturers had to touch 80 prototypes.

Highlighted Motorola and Samsung. The first, with the help of Google, Android has released a version for these devices. Touch your device is thinner than the iPad, front and rear camera. Samsung tries to stand up with the Galaxy, a seven-inch tablet and Android, which has sold a million units worldwide.

HP, a leader in computers with more than 17 million sold in 2010, has taken it seriously. Minicomputers presented in February, tablets and phones with their own sistemaoperativo WebOS. Far smaller firms prepare your pills but do not have the key to iPad, an undeniable ease of navigation.

No instructions but not needed. Lights alone. Simply tap to use. Juan Freire, head of the Digital Economy Department of EOI (Escuela de Organización Industrial), believes that completely changes the interaction and mobility. "It simplifies the relationship with technology. It dispenses with the computer and all family members use it to play, watch videos and learn without leaving the couch.

It draws on the bus or anywhere, you need not stand or wait for it to turn, "he explains. Applications are one of the biggest attractions of the Apple device. Critics consider it a very closed environment. The App Store, Online Store Apple software, each day has more titles. They just over 10,000 million total downloads.

The application of THE COUNTRY, available since November, has already exceeded 80,000. The Taiwanese company Acer, second world, one of the greatest benefit from the explosion of netbooks, are turning to the tablets, prepared four models. Carlos Barrabés, a pioneer in Internet business in Spain, believed to be a paradigm shift: "It is as if a person was watching television in the seventies and wanted to talk to her on the phone.

People continue to anchor and do not realize that the TV does not respond, whereas the iPad understood the first time. It is pure interaction. The device has a clear halo of innovation. Athletes, musicians and politicians boast tablet.
Posted by Manlio Gandolfi at 2:04 AM

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