Posts by skyledavis 3 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Aug 2014
"Stubborn 'won't fix' Google U-turns on Chromecast vid judder twitching-eye blunder"
I... um... what? This headline is just terribly confusing.
Sort of like the problem itself. I work at a US-based AV equipment manufacturer myself, so I get how easy it is to get US-centric on these sort of things, but not accounting for the frame rates that will be used by most of the rest of the world? Ridiculous.
"How (and indeed if) Microsoft plans to fill the strategic void left by its Windows RT devices, however, is a little murky."
Are you talking about the strategy of using ARM in tablets? Because other than that, I see no strategic void. Windows 10 still has a huge tablet focus (and, in fact, promises to be a much better tablet experience, if their plans work). Intel just finally caught up to the demands of the market. There is no functional difference between an Atom-driven Windows tablet vs. an RT tablet, other than the inability to install Win32 apps. That was always the problem.
With Continuum and the other advances in Windows 10, I see no strategic void here, other than the use of ARM.
Anything can sound impressive when you don't involve numbers. The report actually says that numbers are expected to reach 14.4 million units by 2017. For reference, Gartner expects 308 million PCs to be shipped this year, plus 256 million tablets. So, if we say that the PC market doesn't change at all between now and 2017, then Chromebooks would equate to 4.7% of the market in 2017 (up from the whopping 1.6% market share it has right now). And of course, when you add in tablets, those percentages are cut in half. So, let's keep a little perspective, shall we?
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