Section: Communications, Smartphones, Computers, Mobile Computers, Hardware
It’s time to check on how the BlackBerry tablet is doing. Over at Best Buy, they seem quite pleased with sales so far. From the TV spots RIM has put out, they’ve highlighted how beautiful this tablet from RIM is doing.
"Best Buy has had great success selling BlackBerry smart phones in North America, so our sales expectations for the BlackBerry PlayBook were very high," the retailer said in a statement. "To date, we have far exceeded those expectations and we're finding that customers are even more interested in purchasing once they've tested the PlayBook in the store."
Best Buy didn’t release numbers, but they’ve been selling BlackBerry devices for some time and “far exceeded” sounds pretty good to me. That’s despite tech blogger reviews, like our Shawn Ingram’s review that can be surmised with this: ” For everyone else, stay away for now.”
Can RIM turn the BlackBerry into a winner despite the negative online press? Will RIM PlayBook potential buyers look up online reviews first or just watch the TV commercial and go and play with it for 5 minutes before bringing it home? Right now, Best Buy seems pretty happy they are coming in to play.
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Section: Computers, Software / Applications
According to Gartner research, Microsoft is leading the charge in the OS arena with a near 80% market share with a second place IBM coming in with a mere 7.5%. In terms of growth, MS saw a raise of 8 percent year-over-year while Apple and Oracle jumped 15.8% and 7,683% respectively. Oracle’s rapid growth can be attributed to their 2009 acquisition of Sun Microsystems and Solaris, catapulting the company from ninth to fourth place (ahead of the Apple’s current fifth place standing). Please keep in mind that these numbers also take servers into account.
Matthew Cheung, Gartner principal research analyst, believes that pirated copies of the Windows OS in the Asian markets is keeping MS from reaching their full potential.
“Piracy impacted Windows revenue, particularly in emerging markets such as China and India,” Cheung said. “We believe China and India have piracy rates at 80 percent and 60 percent, respectively. Eighty percent of Microsoft Client business comes from PC OEMs—and the rest, 20 percent retail business, is more piracy-vulnerable. We believe Microsoft can earn 20 percent to 25 percent more if there is only ‘systematic piracy’ in the world.”
Well, the current number stands at 78.6. So 78.6 + 20 = 98.6% market share? Is it just me or do those numbers sound unrealistically high? In any case, it looks as though Microsoft will remain the king of the hill in the OS world for quite some time. Here’s hoping that they’ll be able to play catch up in the tablet and mobile market sooner than later.
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