iPhone sales decline for first time as Samsung hangs onto smartphone crown
“For Samsung to stop falling sales of premium smartphones, it needs to introduce new flagship smartphones that can compete with iPhones."
“For Samsung to stop falling sales of premium smartphones, it needs to introduce new flagship smartphones that can compete with iPhones."
From a regional standpoint, Asia/Pacific posted the highest vendor revenue growth at 25.4 percent.
“Unless new compelling innovation or incentives to upgrade tablets are created, the churn of the mature installed base will continue to fall."
“A good test of your level of customer service is what happens when something goes wrong.”
“The second quarter year-over-year growth for 2015 slowed compared with the annual growth of the first quarter of the year."
Microsoft's Windows 10 will not have a fragmentation problem, analysts argued, even though its rapid development tempo and a host of update cadences will spin off so many versions that not everyone will be running the same code, or even have the same features, at any one time.
“However, this will change when businesses start to migrate to Windows 10."
Cybersecurity firm <a href="http://www.fortinet.com/press_releases/2015/fortinet-announces-agreement-to-acquire-meru-networks.html">Fortinet's purchase last week of wireless network manufacturer Meru Networks</a> for $44 million is the second major acquisition of a Wi-Fi hardware vendor in three months and, potentially, the start of a broader pattern.
Google is expected to reveal details about Android Pay at its annual I/O conference this week, even as Samsung readies its own separate mobile payment service.
“These vendors recorded an average growth of 73 per cent in smartphone sales and saw their combined share go up from 38 per cent to 47 per cent during the first quarter of 2015.”
The realisation must come that not all things can be delivered (and defined) by software or marketing.
“I repeat, enterprises don’t need a more modern data centre.”
"The future datacentre is moving toward a more fluid architecture..."
"As the cloud value proposition becomes more clear, many platform as a service (PaaS) providers like Google, Engine Yard, Informatica and Dell Boomi are a threat to established players."
“However, this decline is not necessarily a sign of sluggish overall PC sales long term."
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By Kalyan Madala, CTO, IBM ASEANZK