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Mon, 24 Oct 2011

2:50 AM - Apple Opens the Post-PC Era

Why do these IT industry giants having dominated the market for decades begin to decline in recent years? Waiting for an opportunity to enter the Tablet PC market with the Win7Pad Chen Jun, president of Huayin told News reporter in a interview that today's IT industry is undergoing a technology-based mobile internet software revolution, while the traditional giants of thinking inherent in the development and path can not cater to this age.

There is no doubt that the current practice in the IT industry with this kind of "destructive creation" of the company is Apple. Apple climbed on top of the global market alone resort to iPod, iPhone, iPad and other products, exceeding Exxon Mobil . Apple can get huge profits, not just because the product appearance, superior performance, more importantly, it will be hardware, software and services integrated with the new technology with new business models together. Apple become a leader in the process with iPod and iTunes music store and the digital music revolution. iPhone has become the most expensive to the 'arcade'. iPad tablet PCs, but also to promote the arrival of a post-PC era. For the Apple company, hardware only is an income approach. Apple's additional services, such as selling music, video, and software applications for Apple are becoming the annuity style revenue streams. This strategy of combining with hardware and software, rightly hit the weakness of product-oriented Motorla and Hewlett-Packard. iPhone Ringtone Maker review, makes your favorite iPhone ringtone as as you like.

Recently, Netscape Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, the Silicon Valley famous investors (Marc Andreessen) wrote, "More and more large enterprises and the industry will not do without the software, network services will be everywhere, every industry, companies must ready to meet the software to prepare for the arrival of the revolution, even those who today have a software-based industries, such as Microsoft. " For the decline of Windows operating system performance for two consecutive quarters, objective market data showing, the Tablet PC market is converting from the consumer market to corporate users. In July, the Fortune 500 companies, 86 percent of companies have begun to deploy or test the iPad, compared to 75% on the quarter, an increase in purchase intent. Goldman Sachs research report released in April showed that the Tablet PC in 2011 and 2012 will steal the PC market 35% and 33% of sales. Even Hewlett-Packard CEO Apotheker has to admit that, "Only Apple's successful integration of hardware and software business is a special case."
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Unwilling to be defeated, conventional giants alliance with each other. In this unprecedented crisis, giant companies have begun the difficult transition and survival of their efforts to embrace the software revolution tide, in order to adapt to the new rules of the game. At the end of April 2010, HP announced the $ 1.2 billion acquisition of smartphone maker Palm, Palm's we-bOS get the operating system. In February this year, HP introduced the TouchPad tablet, webOS phone, webOS2.1 operating system, trying to use end-use production to break Apple's operating system. However, due to poor performance, less than six months, HP has decided to give up around the TouchPad Tablet PC and mobile phone all we-bOS operations, its strategy to enter the mobile Internet also officially failed. Ringtone Maker is a compact full-featured ringtone maker which allows you to make ringtones from any sound, be it your favorite song, a soundtrack from your favorite movie, your friends' voices, your kids' laugh, your cat or your doorbell.

At the same time, HP readies to use $ 11.7 billion make acquisition of British software company Autonomy. HP firmly demonstrated its attitude in the form of the transformation, clearly want to study from old-timers like the IBM. Analyst who requested anonymity, told reporters that the former are IBM, Oracle's case, the transformation way of HP does not seem smooth. Because, from IBM and Oracle have a look at the software product line, HP's autonomy in the bag will only have to make up the enterprise search, while is still blank in the major databases, business analysis, middleware, integration and other areas of collaboration.

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