Following my retirement, we have closed our company for new business.

Please do not hesitate to contact me directly, our email portal remains open and I would be delighted to hear from you and provide ongoing support or advice.

Richard Thomson

support@rta-instruments.com

Companies represented up to the end of December 2023. Please now contact them directly.

k-Space Associates, Inc.
Phone: +1 (734) 426-7977
requestinfo@k-space.com
https://www.k-space.com

STAIB INSTRUMENTS GmbH
Phone: +49 8761 76 24 0
sales@staibinstruments.com
https://www.staibinstruments.com/

Monday 14 March 2011

An Apple a day

The use of mobile devices to access the internet has quadrupled in the US, and tripled in Western Europe over the past four years. However according to a report by Strategy Analytics mobile web browsing remains predominantly a `snacking' or `time critical' behaviour, whereas the PC/laptop is used for more leisurely or intensive usage scenarios. Thanks to surging iPad sales, Apple Inc. soared to the top of the league in worldwide mobile PC shipments with more than 10.2 million notebook and tablet PCs combined shipped in the fourth quarter of 2010. Gartner Inc. lowered its forecast for 2011 PC sales more than five percent citing a shift of consumers from mobile PCs/laptops. They expect growing consumer enthusiasm for mobile PC alternatives, such as the iPad and other media tablets, to dramatically slow home mobile PC sales, especially in mature markets. As Mr Jobs has often indicated, we do appear to be heading to the era of post PC devices.

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