…they are a fallin’, according to this article by Ted Cruise for vilayas.com: Global PC Sales Fall to Eight-Year Low I’ve written about this and will repeat: It’s not that PCs are suddenly undesirable to the public at large, but what is happening is that PC makers have reached a point where the products they … Continue reading Global PC sales…
Its a hot topic: PC sales have fallen 14 percent worldwide in the last quarter. Is the PC computer dead? And if so, why? Will Oremus at Slate.com thinks the reason sales of PCs are tanking may be because…they’ve gotten too good. I tend to agree: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/04/12/why_pc_sales_are_declining_old_pcs_still_work_just_fine.html Back when PCs first appeared, there was a … Continue reading Why are PC sales declining?
Stumbled upon this rather grim article written by Tony Maglio and presented on indiewire.com… Warner Bros Discover lost 2.4 Billion and Lionsgate lost 1.8 Billion and its not even dinnertime The article rightfully wonders how film studios can survive with such staggering losses and, frankly, I wonder the same. Looking at this from a longer … Continue reading What will become of the movie industry…?
…sorta. From CNN.com and written by Seth Feigerman… Apple has a problem it doesn’t want to talk about At the risk of spoiling the entire article, it notes that Apple has decided to no longer report how many iPhones, Macs, and iPads they sell. What used to be a great source of pride -and promotion- … Continue reading Called it…
Over at slate.com Christina Bonnington wonders… Is the iPhone X in trouble? Ms. Bonnington notes that Apple has slashed orders for both the creation of new iPhone Xs as well as their components and speculation is building that the unit is simply not selling as well as Apple hoped it would. Ms. Bonnington further wonders … Continue reading Apple iPhone X…
Over at Gizmodo.com Alex Cranz offers an article on Smartwatches. This article anticipates/predicts the death of these products: Smartwatches are dying because they’re useless I’ve noted before I absolutely love tech and am always curious about new tech. I’m intrigued by them and always interested in reading about, if not actually trying/buying new products, provided … Continue reading Smartwatches…R.I.P.?!
As I’ve stated many times before, I’m fascinated by new technologies. Be it something as mundane as battery life or cell phones or computers or self-driving cars, among other things, I’m so there. When Amazon announced their latest gadget, the Amazon Echo a while back, I was very intrigued… Here is an interesting review of the device which … Continue reading Ah, technology…
For the past I-don’t-know-how-many years when one talked about sophisticated and popular electronics, one of the first companies you mentioned in that respect was Apple. But even the mighty Apple appears, at least of late, to be experiencing problems and this has translated to its stock recently losing ground. What is the cause of these problems … Continue reading Trouble in paradise…?
I’ve commented before regarding articles about the slow-down in sales of desktop computers and, going hand-in-hand with this, the idea that desktop computers may be falling out of favor or *gasp* disappearing. I’ve noted that I don’t believe that to be the case. There are plenty of professionals out there (me included) who absolutely need … Continue reading Has Apple peaked?
So it would appear that the Commodore Computer brand isn’t entirely dead… Long Dead PC Company Commodore Just Launched a Smartphone I have fond memories of the old Commodore 64 computers, though by today’s standards these computers (indeed, all technological products from the 1980’s) are rightfully considered primitive. Yet during those very early days of … Continue reading Back from the dead…?