July 19, 2010
iPad ‘cannibalised’ Q2 netbook sales
Register Hardware
Tony Smith shares some research from Gartner where an analyst looks at the netbook market.
“‘Mini-notebook shipment growth slowed significantly in Q2 2010,’ said Gartner principal analyst Mikako Kitagawa. Growth, she said, ‘slowed’ to the low 20 per cent range, down from more than 70 per cent in Q1 2010 and Q4 2009. This, she added, indicates that the netbook market has begun to mature. Kitagawa laid the blame for the slowdown in netbook shipments – not to mention some notebook shipments too – on Apple’s iPad, which went on sale in Q2.”
Acer gains ground on HP as ASUS bumps Toshiba out of top five global PC vendors
Engadget
Vlad Savov writes about PC shipments in the global market.
“Did you know that since the inception of the great and glorious PC industry the world leader in shipments has always been an American company? The biggest threat to this hometown hegemony right now looks to be coming from Taiwan, as Gartner’s latest figures show significant growth from both Acer and ASUS, with the latter improving its global shipments by a stonking 78.5 per cent between this time last year and now. Acer’s ascent was a more modest 31.6 per cent, though the whole PC market has taken a big uptick from 2009 with a 20.7 per cent average growth in shipments.”
HP’s Android tablet “delayed,” more likely DOA
Ars Technica
Ryan Paul writes that after HP shelved its product that was supposed to be created in partnership with Microsoft, the company is now looking to release an Android-based tablet.
“Microsoft and HP announced a high-profile partnership to develop a Windows 7 slate, but the product never made it past the prototype stage and was quietly killed by HP. Now it looks like HP’s plan B, an Android-based tablet that was expected to arrive by year-end, has also been put on hold and won’t ship in that timeframe. The news was reported by the AllThingsD blog, which cites unnamed sources close to HP.”