
They continue to be the fastest growing segment of the Smartphones are cannibalizing the mobile phoneĮventually replace today’s more common, but less capable, feature phones ( 5, 6).
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Portable devices are gaining sales at the expense of stationary ones ( 4). For the past two years, mobile PC sales have increasedĭesktop PC sales have gently declined. What trends are hidden inside this crazy pell-mell growth? In April 2010 and is projected to sell 20 Handheld consumer computer devices are the computing story of theįor example, Gartner Group pegs last year’s smartphoneĬlassified as such in 2007 and yet they alreadyĪccount for perhaps 20% of the laptop market ( 2).

Can Microsoft achieve dominance on mobile devices? Small Devices Grab “The Buzz” This is the story of what’s happening to Microsoft in the handheld operating system markets - and how it parallels the earlier, similar journeys of IBM Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation. The owner of the operating system that likely runs your personal computer, the company that achieved monopoly with Windows and ducked the Department of Justice’s scythe to keep it, faces a midlife crisis as the world goes gaga over portable consumer devices. Even the most brilliant of our species are subject to this flaw.

It’s hard to predict the future because we humans prefer to think in terms of familiar paradigms.
