Wondering why HP is nuking its PC business from orbit, despite being the biggest PC maker in the world? Wonder no longer.
First of all, earlier today, the research firm DisplaySearch announced that Apple had surprassed HP as the world’s largest mobile PC vendor.
The numbers are a bit contentious, because they include the iPad, but we think that’s valid: the iPad is taking over for mobile PCs like netbooks. Meanwhile, the whole mobile PC industry is experiencing negative growth, all the while tablets are up 400% in year-over-year growth.
Okay, but HP’s still number two in the mobile PC space, right? And they still dominate the overall PC market, right?
True, but despite massive sales, HO’s margins are a mere 5.7%. Apple makes more on selling one Mac than HP does in seven PCs.
Exiting the PC business isn’t madness on HP’s part. It is smart thinking.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
19 responses to “As HP Looks To Kill Off PC Business, Apple Becomes World’s Biggest Mobile PC Maker”
..I just paĂd $20.87 for an ĂPad 2.64GB and my boyfriend loves his PanasonĂc LumĂx GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UP S.I will never pay such expensive retail prĂces in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LCD T V to my boss for $657 which only cost me $62.81 to buy.
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Question? Â Are they including Samsung tablets as PC sales as well? Â And the same with the Toshiba, Acer, and Asus tablets as well? Â (Just curious)
Calling the iPad, or any tablet (running a MOBILE OS) a PC is quite a stretch.
Calling it a mobile device? no problem.  Its a mobile device and it runs a Mobile OS.  But a PC?  Not so much.
If you are grouping tablets (which are running a mobile OS) into PC sales, who says you can’t put in smartphone sales into there as well?IF the iPad (or any tablet) was running a desktop OS, then I can understand why you put it with PC sales. Â But when you put tablets that run mobile OSes into PC sales? Â That just dosen’t make sense.Â
Edit: I think calling an iPad (or any tablet running a mobile OS for that fact) a PC really is a problem. Because who says you can’t call cell phone PC’s then? or what about tablets or devices like the Nook? is that a PC or not?
I think if you group my OS, does it run a mobile OS? does it run a desktop OS? is a far better way to go on whats a PC or a mobile device. But’s thats just my opinion.
I just p a i d $21.87 for an i P a d 2-64GB and my boyfriend loves his Panasonîc Lumîx GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS.I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $657 which only cost me $62.81 to buy.
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CULT OF MAC. can you please stop this bot or something “I just p a i d $21.87 for an i P a d 2-64GB and my boyfriend loves his PanasonĂ®c LumĂ®x GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by…”Â
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If customers are choosing between buying a laptop or buying an iPad to fill their mobile computing needs, then the two categories are competing for the same dollar and you better lump the two into the same category.
And for the 99% of the world who are not tech geeks and use computers mainly for surfing, email, and social computing it’s pretty clear that laptops and iPads are substitutes.
Now as to smart phones, nooks, and iPod Touches, I don’t think a lot of people consider them to be proper substitutes for a personal computer, so yeah they’re a separate category.
Heheh.. think so too. But then again this is the CULT of MAC :D
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your right, its getting highly annoyingÂ
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