#ipad roadkill

Apple sold an estimated 14.249 million iPads in Q2 2020

Worldwide tablet shipments hit 37.5 million units in Q2 2020, a remarkable 26% year-on-year increase. Apple sold an estimated 14.249 million iPads in the quarter.

Demand in Q2 2020 was boosted by consumers and businesses wanting affordable access to basic computing power and larger screens to facilitate remote work, learning and leisure. Vendors were able to ramp up production to meet this…

Apple’s iPad claims another victim: Google exits tablet business

Google Pixel Slate

Via The Times of India:

Last year Google launched its Android tablet — Pixel Slate along with its flagship smartphones — Pixel 3 and Pixel 3XL. But it seems that the device was not able to do wonders for the company as Google has decided to exit the tablet business.

Tech giant Google has officially announced its exit from the tablet business. The company was working on two…

Apple’s new ad is a pointed riposte to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s iPad crack

“It was a nothing comment, the gentlest of ribbings: ‘You need to get a real computer, my friend,'” Lila MacLellan writes for Mashable. “Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, made the quip two weeks ago after spotting two reporters using iPads during a press event in India. The incident was described in passing in a TechRadar story, by a journalist who owned one of the offending iPads.”

“Se…

Why Apple’s ‘What’s a computer’ just demolished Microsoft’s ‘real computer’ worldview

“Yesterday was strange. I opened Twitter and saw a remarkable juxtaposition of story links. In the first, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was characterizing Apple as a ‘luxury goods manufacturer’ and telling reporters on iPads that they ‘need to get a real computer,'” Rene Ritchie writes for iMore. “In the second, Apple released a new iPad spot asking, ‘What’s a computer?'”

“Nadella…

Desperate Microsoft’s phony Surface Pro vs. Apple iPad Pro comparisons

“Microsoft recently announced an updated version of its Surface Pro line of tablet/notebook computer hybrids,” Ashraf Eassa writes for The Motley Fool. “Among other improvements, the new tablet line includes Intel’s seventh-generation Core processors, which offer significant performance and power efficiency improvements over the sixth-generation Core chips found in the previous Surface Pro 4…

Microsoft’s hardware business takes a hit as Surface sales sag and Windows Phones fade

“Four little words from Microsoft CFO Amy Hood describe the tragic state of Microsoft’s mobile experiment: ‘negligible revenue from phones,'” Mark Hachman reports for PCWorld.

“Phone sales for the current quarter were bad, falling $730 million from the same period a year ago, Microsoft executives said Thursday during the company’s second-quarter earnings call,” Hachman reports. “But…

Apple’s competition is going to have a tough year in 2016

“In 2015 Apple grabbed a 94 percent share of the world’s global smartphone profits, sold the only profitable tablets and smartwatch, increased its Mac unit sales, launched a successful NFC payment platform, took a huge slice of the music streaming market and introduced a new platform for the living room,” Daniel Eran Dilger writes for AppleInsider. “How can it possibly beat that performance in…

Apple continues to dominate smart device holiday sales

“Christmas is traditionally the biggest day of the year for new smart-device activations and app downloads, and 2015 was no exception, with new device activations and app installs shattering record after record,” Jarah Euston reports for Flurry. “As we do every year, Flurry examined what was waiting under the Christmas tree last week, based on the 780,000 apps we track.”

“Back in 2013,…