A year ago RIM bought NewBay, presumably to join Apple and Google in the cloud storage and synch arena. Now it's selling NewBay at a steep discount to Synchronoss.
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It's ugly out there for the traditional PC makers. IDC says PC sales fell 14 percent in the first quarter on a year-over-year basis. That's worse than its forecast of a 7.7 percent drop.
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More than a paradigm shift... Delete the scoop?
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It's important to note that this chart only shows PCs vs. Macs--full-fledged computers that Apple actually doesn't sell that many of. (Mac sales are growing nicely, in stark contrast to the PC market, but they aren't blowing any doors off).
If the chart included sales of iPhones and iPads, the ratio of PCs sold to Apple products sold would look quite different. And given that the distinction between "a PC" and a tablet or smartphone is becoming ever more blurred, the latter chart would actually be more meaningful. Delete the scoop?
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The rate of iOS and Android device adoption has surpassed that of any consumer technology in history. Compared to recent technologies, smart device adoption is being adopted 10X faster than that of the 80s PC revolution, 2X faster than that of 90s Internet Boom and 3X faster than that of recent social network adoption.
Five years into the smart device growth curve, expansion of this new technology is rapidly expanding beyond early adopter markets such as such as North America and Western Europe, creating a true worldwide addressable market.
Overall, Flurry estimates that there were over 640 million iOS and Android devices in use during the month of July 2012. Delete the scoop?
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How Synchronoss will integrate NewBay, Miyowa and FusionOne is also a mystery...