This means the whole tablet market is gonna be like PC where commodity prices rules. BBRY has no chance to make money in it and has no chance to cash in the rapidly shrinking premium tablet market.
This means the whole tablet market is gonna be like PC where commodity prices rules. BBRY has no chance to make money in it and has no chance to cash in the rapidly shrinking premium tablet market.
Or...it could be due to supply issues. Just a thought. If only Tim Cook,said,something about this...
It means that Android tablet sales continue to grow and eat into Apple's marketshare. Android moved into the top spot in marketshare (i.e., quarterly sales) a few quarters ago, and just as it happened with phones, Android will continue to grow until it dominates the tablet market.
tablets are almost never on subsidized plans so price is more of a factor. The American subsidy model for smartphones had a HUGE affect on Apple success at their premium price points, $50 or $100 more up front may not affect your choice for $200-300 will.
tablets are almost never on subsidized plans so price is more of a factor. The American subsidy model for smartphones had a HUGE affect on Apple success at their premium price points, $50 or $100 more up front may not affect your choice for $200-300 will.
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As far as BB is concerned, it further underlines how terrible a decision it was to spend any engineering resources on the PlayBook instead of having gone all out on the BB10 based phones.
As far as BB is concerned, it further underlines how terrible a decision it was to spend any engineering resources on the PlayBook instead of having gone all out on the BB10 based phones.
BB Playbook was a stepping stone to BB10.
I don't think it was a waste. If it was priced right it might have taken off. i.e. 300 to begin with and not 500
They went from BB7 to PBOS to BB10 in 3 yrs.
Pretty crazy fast to me.
Much like Apple used OSX as stepping stone to iOS only they had a decade.
I think what it means really Is that tablets are not like the phone market at all!
Most people who have tablets that are even a couple years old will not desire an upgrade as much as a couple year old phone. Phone typically gets much more use and wear and tear so more quickly required to upgrade. Tablets could last year's before requiring an upgrade in hardware for the average user. Someone who has an iPad from 2 years ago won't need to rush out to buy one this year. And there was such a boom of sales the first years that most people have a tablet now that wanted or needed one and now they won't rush out to replace it until it breaks.
We have an IPad at our house that never gets used. My kids use their Z10 and Iphone 5.. my wife uses her Z30 and I use my Z10 doe games, quick searches, reading sites like this when at home. I use a desktop PC for work etc. and I also have a laptop that sits sometimes for days or weeks without being turned on.
Maybe it is because we are busy with school, work, soccer, dance playing outside and visiting with friends but I find it just as easy to get a score or a quick search from my phone and for intense Web I still like my desktop or laptop.
BB Playbook was a stepping stone to BB10.
I don't think it was a waste. If it was priced right it might have taken off. i.e. 300 to begin with and not 500
They went from BB7 to PBOS to BB10 in 3 yrs.
Pretty crazy fast to me.
Much like Apple used OSX as stepping stone to iOS only they had a decade.
OSX is more than a stepping stone, it's a full featured desktop OS that is still in development, iOS is just it's mobile child. And even though iOS makes up most of Apples profits OSX is far from the failure the Playbook was. They're selling 4 million macs a quarter at around 40% revenue.
It means that Android tablet sales continue to grow and eat into Apple's marketshare. Android moved into the top spot in marketshare (i.e., quarterly sales) a few quarters ago, and just as it happened with phones, Android will continue to grow until it dominates the tablet market.
The real question for Apple is whether they can navigate a course which maintains industry leadership and profits in that space.
It means that Android tablet sales continue to grow and eat into Apple's marketshare. Android moved into the top spot in marketshare (i.e., quarterly sales) a few quarters ago, and just as it happened with phones, Android will continue to grow until it dominates the tablet market.
BB Playbook was a stepping stone to BB10.
I don't think it was a waste. If it was priced right it might have taken off. i.e. 300 to begin with and not 500
They went from BB7 to PBOS to BB10 in 3 yrs.
Pretty crazy fast to me.
Much like Apple used OSX as stepping stone to iOS only they had a decade.
Well, what this actually means is that they deliberately planned and executed over a period of time, so they brought it to market when it was ready.
BB on the other hand reacted to avoid being roadkill.
What Tim Cook said, in the official earnings call, is that "iPad sales came in at the high end of our expectations."
Is that "missing targets"? It might be "missing what analysts guessed they might be", but I'm not sure that is the same thing.
Anyway, if slowing iPad sales growth (which is what is clearly happening) means anything for Blackberry, it could be good news, for this reason: If phones are increasingly seen as doing well enough the job that people have asked tablets to do for the past few years, then Blackberry could have more hope of succeeding in that space, without a(nother) costly (to develop, market, and support) tablet.
The real question for Apple is whether they can navigate a course which maintains industry leadership and profits in that space.
Difficult imo. Google followed the same pattern of MS in PC market where it provided OS and 3rd party (not necessarily means bad) to develop hardware. Because the consumer electronics market is so fragmented by need, region, regulation that OS + Device makers like Apple and BBRY have to work hard to win the heart as well as balance sheet. That is a difficult proportion where each and every decisions has to thoroughly thought of unlike BB's PB decision.
At best AAPL will win heart of media creators (yet difficult how they will place iPad as a necessity between Mac and iPhone) and BBRY in enterprise space.
