Comments on: Apple sold more iPads than HP sold PCs in Q1 2012

By: crisg723

crisg723 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:37:00 +0000

iPad is not a PC, it cannot run complex applications (custom databases, Autocad, Quickbooks, etc). All it can run are apps, which are far from being applications. An iPad is just a toy at this point.

By: crisg723

crisg723 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:29:00 +0000

Yes but based on productivity ability, ipads/tablets will not replace PCs and/or Macs until they become PCs. Until I can run a full Office Suite, print easily, run complex applications such as Autocad, Quickbooks, database programs etc, they will just be toys and not PC replacements. Yes i do agree that they will, and probably already have, replaced PCs as the primary vehicle for the internet.

By: David

David — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:10:00 +0000

Apple is an “absolute” juggernaut.Apple is “literally” taking their competition (out behind the woodshed) and bashing their f_ckin brains in.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:43:00 +0000

Smack dab right on the nail.

Apple success is, you MUST HAVE the newest device or otherwise you don’t get this cool feature.

I see adults going gaga over a flashy new feature on the iPhone that other phones may have had for years. But the other people? A Phone is a Phone. Who cares if it can do that or not. It’s not life or death. Nice to have, but not needed (right now).

By: K1troutman

K1troutman — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:42:00 +0000

Let’s not get into the Mac vs winders comparison here. I crash my PC W7 as much as I get the beachball of doom on my Mac. It’s all in the software junk you or someone installs on your system!

iPads and other Tablets will over take PC sales and stay there since they have the processing power necessary to do all but the most processor intensive uses like video editing, compiling and end user specific tasks that don’t have sw written for them yet!

Give it a few years and you will see laptops being used by less and less for a smaller alternative solution!

By: Endgadget

Endgadget — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:03:00 +0000

Suggestion: Don’t leave them running as full admin.

By: Endgadget

Endgadget — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:02:00 +0000

If you sell more you get more flack.

By: Endgadget

Endgadget — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:00:00 +0000

The thing with computers is that nearly everyone ALREADY has one!

P.s. People will also be waiting for Windows 8

By: Micah Madru

Micah Madru — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:23:00 +0000

I think it speaks more to the person who wrote this article’s intellect or bias than anything else…

By: vincent

vincent — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:02:00 +0000

Look for the definition of “desktop”, and is iPad really a desktop?? It’s tablet, the term has been widely accepted, don’t confuse yourself..

By: Dingbat

Dingbat — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:25:00 +0000

You must be a genius to figure that out by yourself.

By: Dingbat

Dingbat — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:21:00 +0000

PS : The diseases and hunger does not refer to you.

By: Dingbat

Dingbat — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:19:00 +0000

Sure Koller, we know you are a very important person and you do very important work on your “lap” that cures diseases and feeds the hungry.

By: User

User — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:59:00 +0000

I make a 6 figure income on a PC. How much you making on your iPad? Real business runs on Windows. Anything that begins with “i” is a toy. Tablets will only overtake PCs with the e-mail/facebook/angry birds users.

By: Glenn Allen

Glenn Allen — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:29:00 +0000

People buy a new PC because they need a new PC (and, really, people just don’t need new PCs like they used to–unless you’re a gamer [latest and greatest]). People buying iPads never really wanted a PC anyway, probably didn’t even need one (and they’re probably more interested in chic).

And, by the way, you do know that the iPad is a Personal Computer… don’t you?

By: koller

koller — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:47:00 +0000

This
is because you don’t have anything important to do, all you do is go to Facebook,
check email and browse the web… because I have a tablet and I use my PC and lap every day!!!

By: Counsel Dew

Counsel Dew — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:47:00 +0000

I’ve never bought a used computer… my new ones get bsd or linux. Gaming on windows – only real contender outside of consoles for me. Mac? The wife likes it… To each their own-diversity make competition work for us all…

By: Counsel Dew

Counsel Dew — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:42:00 +0000

Did you even read my post? Did I say anything about iphones? I was simply saying that making a statement about the PC’s demise by referencing other types of hardware sales isn’t logical. Quit naking an emotional argument… if you wonder about the samsung numbers sold, search oress releases. Regardless of whether smartphones or dumb, implying the death of anything based on sales of orher hardware (or even other phones) isn’t logical… that was the only point you should have taken from my original post…

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:20:00 +0000

I was over Steve jobs death the min after I found out, life moves on. And obviously so will apple

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:11:00 +0000

I would. Easily. I’m still using a 5-year-old custom-built PC as a backup computer/server. Try dropping a faster processor onto a Mac – you’ll find that doesn’t tend to work quite as well.

By: Swami

Swami — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:56:00 +0000

Its high time HP closed down their PC business

By: Kenneth Patterson

Kenneth Patterson — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:53:00 +0000

Also, living in NYC where people put their old PC’s out on the corner for trash pick up, I’ve NEVER seen a Mac sitting out in the trash…. ever

By: Diego Lara

Diego Lara — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:54:00 +0000

Good point.. so when you put things into perspective its like saying Los Angeles owns all Mac’s but the rest of the country owns PC’s. And people always want to point to the fact that Apple makes more money per product.. what does that really to us? That apple is pretty smart when it comes to making a profit but at the end of the day if 90 percent of PC’s have Windows that means that the public still prefers PC’s. I could really care less how much money each company makes that doesn’t prove that its products are better or affect my life one bit.

Do you really think that when someone goes to the store to buy a computer they are asking the customer service guy.. “So which one of these manufactures makes the most profit?” in order to make a decision on which computer to buy?

By: Dan Lavatan

Dan Lavatan — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:51:00 +0000

I’d pay more than a dollar for a maxed out precision 690, and I’d probably be willing to pay quite a bit for a T7400 come November (when it turns 5) if it really had 128GB RAM and 5TB storage. If you look on ebay you can usually get a few hundred for a decent system independent of age.

It is better to recycle PCs, but if you were going to send them to a landfill many people would just put them in with their regular trash.

Both PCs and Macs, like many goods are more affordable used than new (look at the change in price of a car 3 days off the dealer’s lot). You can use this to your advantage and buy a 3 month old PC/Mac at a substantial discount, at which point it should hold its value well.

By: Diego Lara

Diego Lara — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:50:00 +0000

You hit the nail right on the head.. Apple people are the only people I know that have to have the latest phone every 6 months even if their current iPhone has 95 percent of the features the new phone has. Thats why apple sells the amount of phones they sell every time they release a new phone because they have brain washed apple people that they have to have the latest iPhone. Android and PC/Windows people are ok with having a 5 year old PC as long as it runs the programs they need and are used to using. And do not get brained washed by a newer gadget just because it has a nicer interface.

Windows people say if it runs my programs then why do I need to upgrade? Apple people say.. hey my old iPhone doesn’t have Siris here is $300 more apple!

By: Areskendd

Areskendd — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:45:00 +0000

Majority being dumb phones

By: Diego Lara

Diego Lara — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:43:00 +0000

I agree with you 100%.. but the sad part is the casual computer user who has no idea what the word OPERATING SYSTEM means and who probably thinks his or her monitor is the computer will think.. HEY ! apple is the best!

By: Jermaine

Jermaine — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:06:00 +0000

next person to do the Apples and Oranges pun about Apple the company gets beaten to death. This is your fair warning.

By: Jim Grogan

Jim Grogan — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:01:00 +0000

Over 525 million Win7 licenses have been activated. Add that to the astounding number of PCs running XP to get a real picture. Also, note that he Chinese pirate Windows to the umpteenth degree. Apple sells many devices no doubt, but it’s a big world out there.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:01:00 +0000

I guess I would respond to that as more Apple twisting numbers to their advantage. Yes, we know PC sales are slumping and the new Tablet such as the iPads are selling well. So what? I think most know that otherwise you would not see all the companies scrambling to make their own tablet.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:47:00 +0000

Don’t mean to be blunt but its the dead artist effect. Passing of Steve jobs made this demand. And apple will try to ride on this as long as they can

By: Clsmarkus

Clsmarkus — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:45:00 +0000

Apple also sold more iPads tham they did Macs. And HP sold more PC’s than Apple sold Macs.

The whole article is a running non sequitor.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:40:00 +0000

I agree with most of what you said but not life cycle part
Lets face it, PC’s (Windows) slows down considerably if NOT maintained properly. Now most people that actually read and keep up to date about electronics have no problem with this however majority of the people don’t know shit. Therefore their computers slows down considerably over time killing the machine faster still. In my OPINION (<- very important) MACs' can run cleaner then WINDOWS and don't have to be formatted every month ( 3 desktops (one high end) 4 laptops (one MAC-book) 1 iPhone 1 iPodTouch 2 androids (galaxy nexus is mine) 1 shity nokia and 1 blackberry

Love my MAC and PC and GALAXY NEXUS but HATE the iPHONE

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:26:00 +0000

Ummm None of which went to Microsoft? Really? How about the licensing that apple has to pay to Microsoft for all the technology patents used in every ipad? Activesync comes to mind. How about the servers apple uses to run their entire empire, most of those last I checked were microsoft and figured into the cost of running apple. How about those little handheld things they ring you up at the apple store with, you know they say symbol technologies? I do believe those are running windows mobile (Which BTW is based on nt Embedded technology)
Actually come to think of it the ipad depends so heavily on non apple technology. And the “mac” is just an intel pc with custom bsd so really what is it exactly apple does, again? Oh yea brainwash kids to pester their parents into buying them a new ipad every year.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:25:00 +0000

Simply put.. because HP used to be the biggest computer seller. They are now outsold by ipads.

I’m not sure if ipads are or should be classified as pcs or what. That’s up to whoever tallies this info, I suppose. But if they are considered a pc, this makes apple the number one seller.

Again, It’s an issue of perception. Is an Android phone the number one selling phone? No, the iphone is. But android in total outsells ios. Is the number one selling computer a windows pc? Not any longer, but windows machines outsell osx and ios.

Android is number one (selling mobile OS)
Windows is number one (selling desktop OS)
IPhone is number one selling phone
Ipad is number one selling “desktop”

One thing is for sure, It’s a lot harder to marginalize apple owners nowadays.

By: Keneth

Keneth — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:24:00 +0000

This
guy, Rue Liu always make this kind of articles with 0% of objectivity
and most of his articles, this is the kind of articles that fan boys love and don’t
analyze.

By: Harry Allen

Harry Allen — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:20:00 +0000

Hardware reliability for HP is terrible and their computers come with more crap programs on them than any other manufacture. They are continually ranked the worst in PC by PC centered sites and mags when it comes to customer choice.

By: Nkziliotto

Nkziliotto — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:17:00 +0000

Wtf 200 million phones were did you get that crap apple sells around 160 million they apple took Samsung down with the 4S the iPhone 4S was announced in the first quarter and that was all expectation of a new iPhone and apple has 47 percent of all smartphones sold in the first quarter get your facts right apple sold 37 million iPhones in 3 months and samsung is 2nd place did you even see there earnings and apple has half of all revenue of mobile handsets not just smartphones

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:16:00 +0000

You guys have quite a bit of discretionary income. Where do you live? :) (knock knock)

By: Harry Allen

Harry Allen — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:16:00 +0000

I still use 10yo PCs for sever things, they are completely upgrade-able. I know companies and even countries that can still use PCs that are 20yo. The reason a PC loses value after 5+ years for resale is because of how inexpensive “modern” PCs are. Old PCs are very often recycled into several different things… Macs retain resale value cause of extremely high they are priced. Basically my PC is like a old 1970s truck… can be rust covered and barely gets into 2nd gear, but it works and it doesn’t go out of style and get replaced like a 2007 mustang (nothing wrong with mustangs… just tend to be resold alot faster)