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		<title>Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft: One Platform Will Not Rule Them All</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/one-platform-will-not-rule-them-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 11:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are narratives circling the technology industry that are wearing out their welcome. The primary one, and the one where I wish more intelligent voices would prevail, is the narrative that there can only be one winner in this industry. Namely that for Google’s ecosystem to win, Microsoft and Apple must fail. Or that for Microsoft’s ecosystem to win, Apple and Google need to lose. And of course for Apple to win, Google and Microsoft need to lose. Perhaps this narrative is best encapsulated in the latest Nokia Lumia smartphone TV ad, which showcases the apparent epic battle between iPhone and Android users. As funny as the commercial is, average consumers — the ones that make up the target market — really don&#8217;t care which phone you or I use. Last year I wrote a column on that very subject called &#8220;I Chose the iPhone, You Chose Android — So What?&#8221; As far as I can tell, these narratives are rooted in not only a limited view of the technology industry’s history, but also in a very shortsighted one. It seems as though since Microsoft’s Windows platform dominated much of computing for several decades, it must mean it&#8217;s inevitable that this domination repeat itself. It seems the expectation from many is that we are simply waiting to see which platform wins. More specifically, which platform will dominate computing market share the way Microsoft did in the past. Let me explain why this is not going to happen. Big Consumer Markets The reason I say the &#8220;one platform to rule them all&#8221; narrative is deeply flawed is that when Microsoft dominated computing, the market was very small from a global standpoint. The market for PCs back then was tiny compared with today&#8217;s market for smartphones, for example. Small markets favor fewer players that typically dominate the segment. The global consumer market for technology is massive. Massive global consumer markets can sustain many players, competing for segments of markets, and all making money. Look at how many automobile companies the global consumer market<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162618&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s Strategic Blunder With Windows 8</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/06/microsofts-strategic-blunder-with-windows-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 13:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=162081</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Article updated at 3:13 p.m. EDT on May 6, 2013 to correct reference to Lamborghini paddles being used for steering. The paddles are used for shifting. Last fall, I had the opportunity to drive a Lamborghini at a corporate event that I attended in Monterey, Calif. This was a very cool experience since I have never driven such an expensive ($200,000-plus) car, let alone a serious racing car on a racecourse. When I was being prepped to drive it, the professional driver that was to be in the car with me went through the cockpit controls and showed me how they all worked. The dashboard controls looked like they were from an airplane, given the number of dials and complex features. The instructor pointed out that while the car had a steering wheel, it also had the racing paddles used for shifting gears, which made steering the car easier and smoother when going fast on a racetrack. These are amazingly sensitive paddles that make controlling the car easier at fast speeds with curves; they&#8217;re not for the untrained or faint of heart. When he was showing me these paddles, I became very concerned. I thought he was trying to teach me to use them too quickly before we were to take off. Thankfully, he said the paddles would be disengaged, and I would use the steering wheel for our drive. He also disabled a lot of other features a true race-car driver would use. As a result, I was basically sitting in a normal car with a normal steering wheel, brake, accelerator and speed gauges. The fact that I was going to get the car to 100-plus miles an hour on the straightaway still freaked me out, but the knowledge that I knew how to drive a normal car, even if this version was a race car, was ultimately comforting. The drive was truly exciting, but as I reflected on it, this race car was pretty much a normal, albeit highly expensive and very souped-up car. And because I knew how to drive<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162081&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What the PC Industry of Tomorrow Looks Like</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/29/what-the-pc-industry-of-tomorrow-looks-like/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=161243</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are, without question, an industry in transition. The 500-lb. gorillas who once dominated the technology industry are undergoing major transitions and experiencing new types of growing pains. And for many, this is extremely painful. These titans will rise or fall based solely on their ability to manage this transition and these new types of growing pains. So what&#8217;s growing, exactly? Opportunity. From Business to Consumer For the past 30 years, the computing industry only appealed to a small group of people – namely the business community. Many companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Dell, HP, Intel, RIM and others got their start by creating products and solving problems for business users. What many of these companies are learning is that business users are as different from ordinary consumers as night and day. I specifically peg Apple’s turnaround to this observation. Apple has and always will be a consumer company, one that struggled until there was a true consumer market. Now Apple finds success where others have not, simply because the company has always had a vision of creating products for ordinary people. Apple had to wait more than two decades for its true market to emerge. Now, emerge it has and it is billions strong. A key point signaling this shift was the recent news about the PC’s decline in Q1 sales. Who usually bought PCs in bulk in the first half of the year? It wasn’t consumers. It was businesses. In years past, bulk purchases by enterprise and business buyers helped offset the lack of consumer spending for PCs in this buying cycle. With businesses shifting to BYOD, it’s doubtful the first half of the year will yield the volumes it once did. What we are witnessing in clamshell PC sales is not really massive declines. It is simply the new normal. The consumer market will dwarf the business-pro market by magnitudes. The PC industry of the past is not the PC industry of the future. The opportunity has shifted from business to consumer, and it is growing faster than many anticipated.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161243&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can the PC Industry Resurrect itself?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/22/can-the-pc-industry-resurrect-itself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=160733</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[IDC&#8217;s recent report stated that PC shipments declined 13.9% last quarter, the worst since IDC has been tracking PCs. It says a lot about the state of the PC industry. The role PCs are playing in people&#8217;s lives is changing, and the growing demand for tablets and smartphones has taken its toll on the PC market. Last week my son Ben, in his column for TIME Tech entitled &#8220;The iPad-Sized Nail in the PC&#8217;s Coffin&#8221; laid much of the blame on the iPad for deflating PC sales. Ben also made the point that people are either keeping their current PCs longer or if they buy a new PC or laptop, they buy cheaper models because they are &#8220;good enough&#8221; to use for any computing needs that can&#8217;t accomplished on a tablet. But is the PC really dead? And if not, how will PC vendors respond to this challenge from tablets and smartphones? It turns out that people have found they can do as much as 80% on a tablet that they used to do on a PC. However, they have also found out that tablets by themselves cannot meet all of their digital computing needs, especially for handling things like media management, extensive photo editing, making complex home movies, doing their taxes and other similar tasks. This suggests that if they only need a PC 20% of the time, the need to buy an expensive PC does not make sense for most people. For the past 10 years, a good part of PC sales were for laptops and PCs in the $799-$999 range &#8212; those which have higher-end processors, extended graphics capabilities and more on-board memory and hard drive space than laptops and PCs priced well below $699. We are hearing from consumers that if they only use a PC or laptop 20% of the time, the highest price they want to pay is $599, with most preferring price points of $399-$449. This is why Ultrabook sales have been very disappointing for the PC vendors who hoped that their touch-based<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160733&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The iPad-Sized Nail in the PC&#8217;s Coffin</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/15/the-ipad-sized-nail-in-the-pcs-coffin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=160141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no question about it: the perils are deep and wide for companies whose primary business is making PCs. There are many layers to the problem and unfortunately, the perfect storm hit the PC sector and there will be collateral damage. The PC Is Only Mostly Dead It would be silly to argue that the PC is dead. Desktops and portable desktops (a.k.a. notebooks) will remain in the marketplace. The PC is not going away. However, something which has been critical for PC manufacturers to thrive is going away: value. The bottom line is that PCs have lost their value to the mass market. Even if the iPad had not been invented, I still believe the PC market would be in the same position it&#8217;s in today. Granted, the decline may not have been as steep, but I am convinced that growth would still be flat to slightly negative. In the minds of consumers, PCs have become like cars. People hold on to their PCs as long as possible and resist upgrading because they feel no pressing need. This doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean that they will never upgrade, just that they will wait as long as possible. This is the key point I want to get across because the lagging refresh cycles, which are now the norm, demonstrate that value has left the traditional PC segment. Is It Windows 8&#8242;s Fault? Many are blaming Windows 8, but I do not believe Microsoft&#8216;s latest operating system is the problem. However, it&#8217;s also not the solution. I believe in the premise of Windows 8 and its concept of merging mobility and touch-based user interfaces with powerful desktop computing. That being said, Windows 8 is a transition OS for Microsoft as the company truly looks to unify platforms. My guess is that unity will come with Windows 9; we will have to wait and see whether Microsoft has the answer that it and its partners desperately need. iPad Is the Culprit Realistically, the netbook is the real culprit. The netbook showed many consumers that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160141&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Blue and the Rise of Ultramobiles</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/08/windows-blue-and-the-rise-of-ultramobiles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a very important industry forecast from Gartner that came out last week, which basically said that we would continue to see a decline in traditional PC and laptop demand and instead see huge growth in tablets and smartphones. However, they had another growth segment in the forecast that&#8217;s quite interesting: They predict that the industry will sell 25 million ultramobile devices this year and up to 96 million in 2017. If you have seen a Microsoft Surface Pro or a large tablet with a screen that detaches from a keyboard, these are what some PC makers call ultramobile devices. We also see smaller-screen clamshell notebooks being defined as ultramobiles as well. While laptops in the traditional sense, they are fully functional mobile devices that in most cases can be used for media consumption as well as productivity. While this segment is still a small part of the PC market today, Gartner believes that they will be a major part of the PC market over the next two years. I believe this forecast for ultramobile devices is actually conservative. The reason is that later this year, Microsoft will introduce an upgrade to Windows 8, code named Windows Blue, and it will be quite an important update to the current version of the company&#8217;s PC operating system. For the first time, Windows 8 will be able to be used on smaller tablets in the seven- to eight-inch range, which will finally let Microsoft compete directly with Apple’s iPad Mini and the smaller tablets from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google and Samsung, among others. At Creative Strategies, we are forecasting that by 2015, tablets eight inches and smaller will account for about 65% of all tablets sold worldwide. But the ultramobile device form factors for which Windows Blue could really boost market demand are the ones that could sport 11.1- or 11.6-inch touchscreens and be designed like a more traditional laptop, although quite thin and light in actual design. Some will be clamshells, while some will have detachable screens. People aware<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159729&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hardware Company&#8217;s Dilemma</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/01/the-hardware-companys-dilemma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a technology company not named Apple, then the answer to this question is vital to your future. The fact of the matter is that all technology companies (other than Apple) do not solely control their own future. Samsung, HP, Acer, Dell, Lenovo, LG, HTC, Nokia and the rest must rely on either Google or Microsoft to supply the operating systems for their smartphones, tablets, or PCs. So the answer to the question of whether to use Google&#8217;s or Microsoft&#8217;s software is as strategic as it gets. Making a wrong decision could mean the end of your company. Google Right now Google’s platforms are hot-ticket items. But they come with a price &#8212; or a lack of a price, for that matter. Google would prefer that all hardware that runs its software be virtually free. That may seem counter to the logic of Google releasing a $1300 Chromebook, but that is simply a strategy to take advantage of a particular market and get early adopters to pay Google for its own market research. It is actually quite brilliant. The long game for Google, however, is one where its services are running on every device, and getting there requires that the hardware be practically free. This is the world I firmly believe Google wants to see happen. As we study average selling prices of phones, the price deflation happens extremely fast with Android devices, and this is very telling. So if I am one of the aforementioned brands trying to make money in the hardware game, I should be mindful of betting my future on a company that would rather me not make any money on my hardware. Also, Google gets almost all of the ad revenue that comes by way of Android devices. In Samsung’s case, it gets 10% but the rest goes to Google. Who really makes money in this case? If you say Google, you are correct This is part of Google&#8217;s end game. How do others make money? Microsoft Microsoft, on the other hand, genuinely<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159322&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Killer App for Google&#8217;s Glasses</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/25/a-killer-app-for-google-glasses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of talk and excitement about Google Glass. They&#8217;ve captured the imagination of the technorati and even garnered feedback from the mainstream media in reports that Google&#8217;s computerized eyewear might be barred in certain restaurants and bars. Clearly it&#8217;s a fascinating product and concept, though it&#8217;s harder to say if it&#8217;ll catch on or be successful beyond early adopters who love gadgets. It&#8217;s true that solid use cases for Google Glass could develop in vertical markets, possibly for use in medicine, transportation, public safety, etc. However, at $1,500 it&#8217;s hardly a consumer device. The fact that it could take pictures, record video, deliver speech to text and put you into hangouts — even get directions — is interesting, but it would have to do a lot more for consumers to spend that sort of money out of the gate. That&#8217;s how this works, of course: most major technology products start out quite expensive and eventually come down in price over time. Part of getting the price down comes from the early adopters, who help to pay for the R&#38;D costs of the product. And with greater demand, the vendors — in this case Google — get price breaks from component manufacturers, which helps pay down initial equipment and manufacturing costs. (MORE: Google Glasses Seem Cool, but Voice Control Could Get Out of Hand) While I don’t think Google&#8217;s glasses are headed for consumer-friendly price levels anytime soon, I do think there could be a consumer-oriented app tied to these glasses that might appeal to vertical users as well as a group of consumers that could actually drive high demand for the eyewear, even if the glasses themselves are pricey. Because of the nature of my work, I&#8217;m what you might call a reluctant world traveler. Over 35 years, I&#8217;ve traveled close to 4 million miles (6.5 million km) and visited 55 different countries doing work in the tech field. I was born in the U.S., and my first language is English. I took Spanish in high school<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158770&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Coming Merger of Google Chrome and Android</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/18/the-coming-merger-of-google-chrome-and-android/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In August 2011, I outlined why I believed that Chrome was more important to Google than Android. At first blush, this sounds kind of crazy, but when you look at the bigger strategic picture it makes sense. With former Android head Andy Rubin relocating to work on other projects at Google, and Chrome head Sundar Pichai taking over Android, it means that the Android and Chrome teams are now under unified leadership. This, I believe, is the signal that Android and Chrome are on a path to merge. To understand the business side of things, it is important to remember that Google makes the vast majority of its revenue from search. Google&#8217;s web properties generated advertising revenues of $8.8 billion in Q4 2012 alone. Google doesn’t release exactly how much it makes from Android, but I don’t believe they make even close to $8 billion from it annually, let alone in one single quarter (as they do from web-based advertising). Android has been a relevant strategy to give hardware makers a chance to compete with Apple. But as we can see from various market developments, it appears the hardware vendors now either want to forego Android and minimize their dependence on Google, or create their own solutions entirely. I&#8217;m thus convinced that Android as we know it today will look very different &#8212; if it exists at all &#8212; five years from now. This is where Chrome and Chome based hardware comes in. Chrome Hardware Right now Chromebooks are still in their infancy. They&#8217;re rapidly developing and getting better with each generation, but I don’t believe they&#8217;re even close to Google&#8217;s bigger vision. The Chrome web app solution is getting more apps but not at a level or pace necessary to gain a critical mass relevant for the mass market. This is where Android and future Android app development will play a role. Google has a large global developer base for Android but not yet for Chrome web apps. Chrome is designed to run only apps developed for the web,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158283&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Invasion of the Low-Cost Tablets</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/11/invasion-of-the-low-cost-tablets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, I received a press release from a company called D2 announcing its new 16-gigabyte 7-inch tablet running Android Jelly Bean 4.1 and priced at $89. This is sold exclusively at Big Lots and went on sale March 1. This new tablet also has a micro SD slot so you can upgrade its memory, making it a very versatile, yet low-cost tablet solution. That same day I got a note from HP stating that it introduced a new 7-inch tablet of its own, known as the Slate7, also using Android Jelly Bean 4.1 for $169. Unlike the D2, the Slate7 has a 3-megapixel rear-facing camera and a VGA camera on the front. It goes on sale in April. Of course, Google has its own low-cost tablet called the Nexus 7. And Amazon’s 7-inch Kindle Fire HD sells for $199. And over at Fry’s, our local tech supermart, I recently saw at least three non-branded tablets selling for $99 or less. With all of this low-cost tablet activity going on, it seems pretty clear that the invasion of the low-cost tablet is in full swing. They&#8217;re very affordable for anyone who wants or needs a tablet. Although this race to the bottom in low-cost tablets will not deliver any major profits for those making these cheap tablets, this is really good news for consumers. It also suggests that we are about to launch the “tablet-in-every-room” phase of the tablet market &#8212; one that could have the profound effect of speeding up the integration of all things digital into our lifestyles. By nature of the amount of tablets I have for various reasons, I already have a tablet in every room of my house. Some are iPads and some are Android tablets of various operating system versions. And one or two of them are based on Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system. All have at least two common denominators among them: The first is a web browser. This means that every tablet I have gives me unlimited access to the Internet<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157900&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s Reality Distortion Field Relocates to Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/04/apples-reality-distortion-field-relocates-to-wall-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m baffled. As an industry observer and analyst who studies this industry and the companies within it, I am baffled by how Wall Street thinks about Apple. I do, however, have a theory. It’s called the reality distortion theory. The late Steve Jobs was said to have what was referred to as a reality distortion field, meaning that he sometimes had a view of things not always grounded in reality. My theory is that for the foreseeable future, there will always be a reality distortion field surrounding Apple. The only difference from then to now is that the so-called reality distortion field has moved outside out of Apple and now is alive and well with Wall Street analysts and the headline-seeking mainstream media. I study this industry for a living. I study markets, trends, the companies that comprise it, and the business strategies being employed. I see dysfunction and unhealthiness running rampant throughout the industry. I see once-dominating hardware and software companies now struggling to make money. I see those same companies struggling to differentiate their products amidst a growing sea of sameness. I see operators, MSOs, and other service providers all struggling to keep happy loyal customers and profit off them. From a business standpoint, a product strategy standpoint, and a market awareness standpoint, many companies face a gamut of problems. Then we come to Apple. Apple&#8217;s main problem is that it can’t make enough tablets and smartphones to meet demand. In the last quarter, Apple made more profit than anyone by a healthy margin. In fact, at last week&#8217;s shareholder meeting, Apple CEO Tim Cook stated that Apple’s revenue grew by about $48 billion dollars, which happens to be more revenue growth than Google, Microsoft, Dell, HP, RIM, and Nokia combined. Then a few days ago, Fortune released its list of most admired companies, as voted by executives and directors from corporate America, and Apple was number one in four major categories. Apple was voted by its peers in corporate America as the most admired company in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157497&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Your Smartphone Will Be Your Next PC</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/25/why-your-smartphone-will-be-your-next-pc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 20 years ago, when I was lugging around a 9-pound laptop on trips all over the world, I kept thinking that there had to be a better way to compute while traveling. At the time though, we only had the technology to deliver heavy and clunky portables. If you wanted to work while on the road, this is all anyone had available to them back then. On one of my trips to London in 1992, I started envisioning what I would want in a portable computer if we had the necessary technology to make a more portable computing vision come true. While I could have envisioned a lighter, thinner and sleeker laptop, my actual vision was much more far reaching in concept. As I was sitting on that flight, I began wondering, &#8220;What if the back of the seat in front me of had a screen on it and the tray table could flip over and have a keyboard built into it for input?&#8221; I then envisioned what I called a CPU brick, which I could plug into the keyboard. It would power this PC shell, and more importantly, it would have all of my personal user interfaces, content, email clients and everything else I needed. In other words, the brick would be my personal computer and I would just plug it into some kind of dock connected to screens on planes, trains, and in hotel rooms and airport lounges. (MORE: Your Smartphone Will Become the Hub of Your Digital Lifestyle) While the idea of having screens and keyboard docks available everywhere no longer makes sense, there is a similar concept emerging that in a way turns your smartphone into that CPU brick and makes various screens available for viewing your content. Early attempts at this came from Motorola with its Atrix smartphone and Lapdock accessory. Along the same lines is the Asus Padfone. The basic idea here is that the smartphone itself is your PC and then docks into the back of either a portable screen or some<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157174&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Innovation to Marketing: Understanding Technology Cycles</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/19/from-innovation-to-marketing-understanding-technology-cycles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems as though the past year I’ve heard a lot of early adopters &#8212; especially the tech media &#8212; complain about the lack of innovation coming from the tech industry. Now, we can define innovation in many different ways; ways in which even simple improvements can be innovative. But I think it&#8217;s important to point out that true limit-pushing, groundbreaking innovation is cyclical, not annual. We are coming off the reinvention of two primary technologies&#8217; categories: the smartphone and the tablet. Furthermore, we are in the midst of redefining what a personal computer is, does, and looks like. Of course, I believe innovation is still around the corner but I think there are some important market truths that need to be pointed out. Innovate, Then Communicate Innovations fail if they can not be marketed. Sometimes I think the importance of effective marketing is taken for granted. I think many industry observers simply assume that when something innovative is released that everyone will magically understand it right away. The truth is that even the simplest innovations need effective marketing if they are to be embraced by the mass market. This is the cycle we currently find ourselves in. This is why it actually becomes much easier to discern the winners and losers by judging not just the products, but also the marketing. Great products have the potential to fail to gain mind share by the mass market thanks to poor marketing, while at the same time, bad products do not get embraced by the mass market even with great marketing. Great products require great marketing. There is also the danger of over-innovating during a market’s maturity process. When this happens, a company tries to add too many bells and whistles to a product and runs the risk of it being too much for the market to handle. The market doesn’t grasp the value of all the new features, or perhaps it just isn’t ready. Marketing Matters in Mature Markets Perhaps the most fundamental reason we&#8217;re in the current marketing-driven cycle<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156770&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Has Apple Finished Disrupting Markets?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/11/has-apple-finished-disrupting-markets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things Apple has demonstrated over its lifetime is that it has become the great disruptor. When the Mac came on the scene in 1984 and introduced computer users to the graphical user interface, it shook up the text-based DOS market so dramatically that it forced Microsoft to follow Apple&#8217;s lead quickly in order to stay relevant. Now graphical user interfaces are the norm on all PCs. Eighteen months later, Apple pushed the Mac as a disruptor to the publishing market with the introduction of desktop publishing. Marrying the Mac, a desktop laser printer and Aldus’ PageMaker software, Apple championed a desktop-publishing solution that completely changed the publishing world by letting people create content on demand and publish it without the help of the publishing industry’s big-iron solutions. Today, personal publishing on the desktop or on the Web has its roots in Apple’s disruptive desktop-publishing blitz. In the early 2000s, Apple upended the music market with the introduction of the iPod and an easy way to access, buy and play music on the go. While pirating music was the real disruptor to the music industry back in the late 1990s, only the tech literate went online to get MP3 files. While early MP3 players came out to make digital-music playback more portable, it took Apple with the iPod and iTunes to really disrupt the digital-music market and bring it to the masses. Then in 2007, Apple disrupted the cell-phone market with the iPhone. While Apple did not invent the smart phone, the company reinvented it in ways that completely disrupted the wireless carriers&#8217; way of controlling their own programs and added the element of a truly intelligent operating system and apps to the smart-phone landscape. The iPhone has literally redefined what a smart phone is and has dramatically disrupted the entire telecommunications world. In 2010, Apple introduced the iPad. The company did not invent the tablet. It reinvented the tablet and in the process reinvented the personal computer. Now the iPad has become a major disruptive force in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155675&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How the Tablet Came to Disrupt the PC Industry</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/04/how-the-tablet-came-to-disrupt-the-pc-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Personally, I believe change is good. If I look at the history of the computing industry, I can point to countless changes and paradigm shifts that led us to where we are today. However, most of the change we can point to have been more evolutionary than revolutionary. Most of the change we&#8217;ve seen hasn&#8217;t been disruptive—until now. The PC industry is observing one of the most significant times of change it has ever seen. If I am being entirely honest with myself, I do not believe every company will survive this disruption, or at least continue in their current form. The State of the PC Industry For years, the PC industry, which we would classify to include desktop and notebook sales at a worldwide level, was growing. It was growing anywhere from 5-12% percent annually over the last 5 years, and in its early days it grew over 30% each year. I think many believed that someday every person on the planet would own one of these types of computers. For a point of reference, the PC industry was sustaining growth and for a brief time sold between 380  million and 400 million units worldwide for a couple of years. A good chunk of this was thanks to netbooks &#8212; low cost, highly portable computers. At one point in time, netbooks hit just over 30 million in unit sales. For most companies in the PC industry, things were good. Then the iPad happened. For the past two years, the emergence of the iPad has caused PC industry growth to slow and even decline. Last year, sales of desktops and notebooks were off between 5-7% depending whose numbers you look at. But perhaps the most telling was the 4th quarter, which traditionally is a strong quarter for PCs. Holiday 2012 PC sales were off over 10% worldwide according to our estimates. The story is not better for 2013, as our firm and many other analyst firms predict the PC industry to be in negative numbers again. To be honest, I<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156014&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Graph Search: The Emperor Needs New Digital Clothes</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/28/facebook-graph-search-the-emperor-needs-new-digital-clothes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit that I&#8217;m not much into clothes. Give me some comfortable jeans and a clean shirt and I&#8217;m ready to go. My better half has a different position on this topic. Sometimes she takes 30 minutes or more just to decide what to wear. Apparently this gene is being passed down to my granddaughters who, when over at our house, also spend more time than I think necessary to get ready to go out the door &#8212; even if we&#8217;re just going to a movie theater where it&#8217;s dark the whole time. But I am beginning to think that when it comes to a digital world, I may need to be more cognizant of my digital clothing. Most of us know the children’s fable, The Emperor&#8217;s New Clothes. The synopsis, per Wikipedia: A vain Emperor who cares for nothing except wearing and displaying clothes hires two swindlers who promise him the finest, best suit of clothes from a fabric invisible to anyone who is unfit for his position or &#8220;hopelessly stupid&#8221;. The Emperor&#8217;s ministers cannot see the clothing themselves, but pretend that they can for fear of appearing unfit for their positions and the Emperor does the same. Finally the swindlers report that the suit is finished, they mime dressing him and the Emperor marches in procession before his subjects. The townsfolk play along with the pretense not wanting to appear unfit for their positions or stupid. Then a child in the crowd, too young to understand the desirability of keeping up the pretense, blurts out that the Emperor is wearing nothing at all and the cry is taken up by others. The Emperor cringes, suspecting the assertion is true, but continues the procession. One could also interpret this fable as being about keeping the status quo around you and not seeing that things in your world may be wrong or have changed. I believe that if this fable were written today, it might be titled The Emperor Needs New Digital Clothes, especially if he had a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154847&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet of Things: Hardware with a Side of Software</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/21/the-internet-of-things-hardware-with-a-side-of-software/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite some people loathing CES, I actually happened to enjoy the show this year. I go to CES mostly to meet with our clients, gather data and market intelligence, and search for trends. CES always includes hidden gems; you simply have to know where to look. Two things stood out to me as major themes at CES this year. The Internet of Things on Display We have talked about the concept of the Internet of Things for several years now. The Internet of Things is the idea that the vast majority of our electronics will be connected to the Internet and/or other nearby devices. A refrigerator, for example, may have a touch screen on the door and be connected to the Internet, allowing you to remotely access information — things like inventory, temperature, whether or not you have what you need to make a certain recipe. Another example is the Nest thermostat, which is a connected thermostat that allows you to remotely manage your thermostat from your smartphone, tablet or PC. The high-level view of the Internet of Things is a world where nearly every electronic device we own will be connected to something. In years past, this idea was just an idea &#8212; something we said was coming. This year, however, was the first year when I could actually say the Internet of Things was on display. I saw examples of nearly every type of electronics device &#8212; from coffee makers, ovens, fridges, cars, clocks, stereos, exercise equipment, and my personal favorite: an LED lightbulb with a wireless speaker built in. All of these devices were connected to the Internet and allowed you to interact with them, store data, access data and more. This was the first year I could see the Internet of Things becoming reality, and it is very exciting for us industry observers. I’m half-joking but I can’t wait for the year when we see a connected toilet and companion app. Hardware with Software Accessories The reality of the Internet of Things coming to fruition brings<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=155361&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your Smartphone Will Become the Hub of Your Digital Lifestyle</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/14/your-smartphone-will-become-the-hub-of-your-digital-lifestyle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the winter of 2000, Steve Jobs took the stage at the Macworld conference and laid out what we now consider a very forward thinking idea: He said that the Mac would become the center of our digital lifestyle. We didn&#8217;t know it at the time, but Jobs and his team at Apple were secretly working on the iPod and a music store that used the Mac to side-load downloaded music to the iPod. When Jobs introduced the iPod the following year, he literally made the Mac a hub connected to a &#8220;spoke&#8221; &#8212; or cable &#8212; that was then connected to the iPod. For most of the last decade, the idea of the Mac working as a hub that side-loaded content to products like the iPod, iPhone and the iPad played itself out well, making it very easy for consumers to buy digital content and load it onto these devices. Over the past few years, Apple has refined this vision and starting making iCloud more of the hub to wirelessly organize content from its online stores to be downloaded directly to Apple products. While making the cloud the hub in this scenario is still the best way to think about this idea, it became pretty clear to me while at CES last week that in many ways, smartphones are really emerging as the hub of our digital lifestyles. Yes, smartphones are still connected to the cloud in terms of accessing data and transmitting information, but it seems to me that the smartphone in many ways is becoming the one device sitting at the center of our lives and working more like a hub in its own way. (MORE: Check out TIME Tech&#8217;s complete CES coverage) A good example of this is the role my smartphone plays in my connected car. My smartphone uses Bluetooth to connect to my car&#8217;s digital display, which has channels for music, data and voice. When a call comes in to me, the phone serves as the hub that connects to my car&#8217;s screen and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=153587&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Tablets, Hybrids and Convertibles Are Important to the PC Industry</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/01/07/why-tablets-hybrids-and-convertibles-are-important-to-the-pc-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no question that the PC industry has taken a back seat to the tablet phenomenon. Many PC companies, with the exception of Apple, have not participated relevantly in the tablet discussion. Part of this is because many of them have been extremely focused on their core business, which is notebooks and desktops, but it is also due to the lack of a viable tablet platform. Android is doing well with 7-inch tablets and has had some success with 10-inch models due to Samsung&#8217;s efforts. Other than that, there are very few Android tablet volume success stories. Many in the PC industry were waiting for Windows 8 to hopefully give them a fighting chance with tablets. It&#8217;s becoming clear, however, that Windows 8 is giving vendors an opportunity to invest and compete in an entirely new category with hybrids and convertible PCs. (MORE: For What It’s Worth: Microsoft Has Sold 40 Million Windows 8 Licenses) At this years CES I&#8217;m expecting to see a wealth of innovation around the PC form factor. I have written about hybrids often here at TIME and the examples we have to date are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the exciting innovations around the corner with respect to this new category. Truthfully, the PC industry needs the spark of innovation from this new category to help stabilize years of declining PC sales. The PC industry has remained relatively steady in its annual worldwide sales volume. There were a few years when annual worldwide sales eclipsed 400 million, but as of late, our industry average has been in the 350-380 million range. From our firm&#8217;s perspective, we don&#8217;t see this changing, meaning we don&#8217;t see the pie or total addressable market for traditional PCs growing. All of the recent growth from an industry standpoint is coming from tablets. (MORE: Why We Need a New Definition of ‘PC’) The reality is that the PC industry built its business around a predictable hardware refresh rate of between 2-3 years. Now the average time consumers are<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154319&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Tech-Industry Predictions for 2013</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/12/31/10-tech-industry-predictions-for-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim and Ben Bajarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have followed our Big Picture column for the past year, you will know that as industry analysts and observers, we study this industry and the markets that compose it on a daily basis. Because of that, we often get asked about our thoughts concerning trends in the coming year. So we thought we would do a joint column sharing our predictions for the tech industry in 2013. Tim&#8217;s Predictions Each year about this time, I put out a list of predictions for the coming year. I have been doing this for 23 years, and over that time I have had a reasonable level of success with these predictions. I have had some spectacular failed ones too, like the year I said Microsoft would buy RIM. Because of our work and research, we get to see a lot of technologies in the works behind the scenes. Looking at the data, we can make some educated deductions about tech trends for the new year. With that in mind, here are my top predictions for 2013. (MORE: The Top 5 Tech Biz Stories of 2012) 1. Augmented reality will go mainstream. Companies like Zappar and Aurasma have some great technology that adds an AR touch to published content, posters and physical places. AR technology has been in the works for many years, but the demos I have seen from these two companies have me believing that 2013 is the year that AR becomes very important to the mobile world. More important, many of these AR companies have created great relationships with movie studios, gamemakers, publishers and more, and their technology is already showing up in many of their products. I wrote about these two companies recently, so check out some of the examples I have at the end of this column to get a visual sense of why I think AR will be big in 2013. 2. Google’s Chromebooks will get more consumer attention, gaining traction in 2013. Google Chromebooks built by Acer and Samsung are priced around $250 and have<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=154158&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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