| Computers To Become Much Smaller |
| By philby | |||||
| Thursday, 10 September 2009 07:37 | |||||
 Ever think, "my gosh, you can do almost anything with a BlackBerry/iPhone". Okay, you may not literally be thinking "my gosh" about anything, but the sentiment may be right on the money. Gartner estimates that sales of smartphone devices globally have been coming along in leaps and bounds, jumping 27 percent from the same time last year. This will condinue to increase, as manufacturers not only identify these trends, but find that there's more money to be made from harnessing the wave. "Given the higher margins, smartphones offer the biggest opportunity for manufacturers. It is the fastest-growing market segment and the most resistant to declining average selling prices ," said Carolina Milanesi, research director at Gartner. In a report on the subject, RBC analyst Mike Abramsky is estimating that within two years this will happen. Part of the RBC report states, "We believe RIM will continue to possess sustainable advantages in its intuitive, powerful "Crackberry" messaging and data experiences, reliability and battery life, and its NOC/ software/ hardware ownership." The recent trend in smaller computing, seen in the rise of Netbook sales, adds fuel to the fire. Traditional PC manufacturers are also getting all of their dominoes in a row, with Dell, Asus, and Acer all in the process of getting smartphones out to market. The reality is is that most people only really use computers for rudimentary tasks like surfing the internet, email, music, flash video, games and simple office applications. These can all be done on very basic computers, so it's not too much of a leap to be able to do all these in a smaller, weaker computer. Heck, you can do most of this stuff now on a stock iPhone, so for all this to go down in the next two years is very, very likely. [via PC World]
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