Cold, hard numbers now show that Apple's iPad is indeed cannibalising the traditional PC market - cutting Into laptop sales In particular. Global laptop sales have tanked, from pre-iPad double-digit growth rates to just one percent in the first quarter of 2011 according to BusinessWeek, while Buslnessinslder reports HP's consumer PC sales down 12 percent and Dell's consumer revenue down eight percent, The cause? You guessed it. Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore estimates that around 30 percent of iPad owners are using it as a laptop replacement, rather than a supplement. Morgan Stanley analysts also confirmed this trend In September, reporting that the IPad cannibalised 25 percent of the laptop market since the tablet was first announced. Welcome to the Post-PC world. •
Some iPhone 4 users have seemingly uncovered a "creepy" glitch in the handset's FaceTime video-calling function. 9to5Mac reports that random images - some not even photographs stored in the iPhone's camera roll but seemingly taken surreptitiously - show up on screen to some users of FaceTime.
"My boyfriend and I have both recently experienced this problem several times - when one of us is calling the other via FaceTime, an old picture freezes on our screen, while the person receiving the call only sees a black screen. It's kind of creepy, because it brought up photos of both of us at work, where I have used FaceTime a few times but he never has," said a glitch-sufferer via a forum. "It's not terribly inconvenient, but it's definitely unsettling, where is seems that even if we haven't taken a picture or used FaceTime,the camera is keeping images" if the reports are correct, then a number of unsettling privacy issues raise their head. Given that the images that appear can't be found on the handset it is difficult to know why it was taken, whether it has been sent elsewhere, or if it could be the work of a rogue app.
Creepy face Time glitch reported
"My boyfriend and I have both recently experienced this problem several times - when one of us is calling the other via FaceTime, an old picture freezes on our screen, while the person receiving the call only sees a black screen. It's kind of creepy, because it brought up photos of both of us at work, where I have used FaceTime a few times but he never has," said a glitch-sufferer via a forum. "It's not terribly inconvenient, but it's definitely unsettling, where is seems that even if we haven't taken a picture or used FaceTime,the camera is keeping images" if the reports are correct, then a number of unsettling privacy issues raise their head. Given that the images that appear can't be found on the handset it is difficult to know why it was taken, whether it has been sent elsewhere, or if it could be the work of a rogue app.
No comments:
Post a Comment