In this month’s tablet-friendly digital edition, CDN magazine lists the Top 100 Solution Providers in Canada. And, the list will have many surprises. Also make sure to check out the Top 100 report which will have analysis on what solutions are selling well and which markets are hot. CDN has also produced a report straight from the Top 100 workshops on Channel Priorities and Big Data.
In this edition of CDN digital we try to answer the question: Is the PC dead? We’ll have more news on Lenovo’s smartphone and if it can be a success in Canada and the U.S.
Heads will roll in the channel and there were certainly a lot of executive changes. CDN has a story on all these significant changes to the leadership of Microsoft, IBM and Intel in Canada along with news from Symantec, SAS, Adobe and Dell.
We have also included a visually stunning infographic to showcase all cost associated with the hot Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend.
This issue will be one you want to keep the entire year because it contains the list of the best 100 solution providers in Canada, with their rank, revenue figures and a way to contact them.
Also inside this issue is a photo gallery with lots of fun photos from CDN’s Top 100 gala event in North Toronto. The magazine also has videos from the event.
In CDN’s reviews section we test Office 365 and Google’s Chrome OS.
In the Deals section we have a case study on how Toronto solution provider Navantis transformed the City of Vaughan, Ont., through its Web site.
Click on the image below to open the May digital edition of CDN for these stories, and more.
What’s with CDN and other sites fetish that the “PC” is dead? It is far from dead. It declined maybe 1% in 2012 from 2011. Does that mean coffins should be ordered. Try sticking to real journalism, not what TMZ offers.
We don’t have a fetish for the “PC is dead” meme. In fact, its being put forward by vendors and analysts, and we have an obligation to report on what industry stakeholders are saying on topics that matter to our readers.
We also have an obligation to provide context to their claims. I have filed a number of pieces examining the research that shows the claim is false; PCs aren’t dying. While sales are down, what is happening is tablets are replacing secondary PCs in households, and for a variety of technical reasons we’re using PCs longer between refreshes. I’ve also written several op/eds exposing this canard.
Also, the story in this digital edition is actually about how Lenovo is rejecting the dying premise.
P.S. PC sales are down sharply though, that’s undeniable, and by much more the one per cent. According to IDC, Q1 2013 shipments worldwide were down 13.9 per cent over Q1 2012. It’s not dying, but for a variety of reasons, we are buying less.
You may have the obligation to report bujt also include a comment that what some may say are not quite true. My 1% was based on a single web site – which was obviously flawed. You corrected me. The percentages you quoted could of been used in the original article to say that while there has been a significant drop, there are probably [I’m guessing here] still a few hundred million PCs sold each year.
Lenovo may have rejected the PC’s demise partially because they may not be selling as many tablets compared to the others.
The first thing I did when i received my iPad 4 was to buy a keyboard to make it function like a real computer.