SuperSite Blog Daily Update: December 9, 2010

Good morning.

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According to iSuppli, strong corporate sales of PCs have catapulted Dell back to the number two spot, ahead of Acer. That's good news for Windows 7, and good news for Dell, of course. But you can expect a certain crowd to argue that Acer's fall (the company sells netbooks primarily) is somehow related to the iPad. I mean, what isn't?

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Android fragmentation alert: Only "some" HTC handsets will get the "Gingerbread" (Android 2.3) software update.

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On the flipside, the Android-based Galaxy Tab has already sold over one million units. It's gotta be the superior screen size.

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Neowin reports that Windows 7 has hit 25 market share in the OS market. No it hasn't. Statcounter measures web usage, not OS market share. Always has. Always will. Windows 7 goes out the door on about 93 percent of all new PCs. That's Windows 7's market share.

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Nick Eaton throws up the following linkbaitWill Windows Phone 7 turn into another Palm? Possibly, Nick. Or maybe it turns into the next iPhone. There are all kinds of ways this could go.

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CNET steals my line and turns it into a question: Is now the wrong time to buy an iPad? The answer, of course, is yes, now is the wrong time to buy an iPad. I've already been over this, David.

Discuss this Article 5

planetarian
on Dec 9, 2010
Yeah, not excited for chrome OS in the least.


In the meantime, this is frustrating:
I go to the article page via the RSS item. it tells me i need to login to comment. I click login, provide my info, and submit. i'm logged in, but it takes me to the site homepage rather than the article i logged in from. if i use the back button or go to the URL directly, it still doesn't think i'm logged in. only after logging in and then manually navigating to the blog entry through the site, will it recognize me. ~_~



planetarian
on Dec 9, 2010
argh. somehow this got posted on the wrong article. that should've gone here: http://www.winsupersite.com/blogs/tabid/3256/entryid/75954/SuperSite-Blo...
BananaJr
on Dec 9, 2010
Those are good numbers for the Tab but how many sales are they losing by pricing a smaller screen the same as the iPad? I would expect that as sales taper off after the holidays they have room to reduce the price and keep sales going. Overall though they have to be happy with the response and the ability to sell without having to compete on price.

The underlying question however is where is Wintel in all of this? Microsoft typically doesn't have to be first to succeed in a catagory but Android is eating up a lot of sales that Microsoft could have garnered had they stayed current in both the smartphone and tablet market. Microsoft has the resources to catch up but continually coming in this late is sure making it a lot more difficult than it needs to be.

Waethorn
on Dec 10, 2010
The iPad isn't cutting into netbook sales - low-cost, full-featured, sub $500 14 and 15" AMD Vision systems are.
NotTellinYou
on Dec 11, 2010
I hope, based upon this review, that we don't have buyer's remorse come Christmas morning!

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9200739/Samsung_s_Galaxy_Tab_make...

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