Tim Bajarin
Tim Bajarin
Tim Bajarin is an American technology columnist and a technology consultant. His writing and analysis has been on the forefront of the digital revolution. He was one of the first analysts to cover the PC Industry and is considered one of the leading experts in the field of technology adoption cycles. He is president of a technology company called Creative Strategies, located in Campbell, California...
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PC companies do not want to have more than six weeks of inventory, and most of them try to live within three- and four-week turns, ... We're hearing about inventory build-ups in some companies that are as much as 13 weeks.
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The bargain prices you get in the sub-$1,000 PC category are exceptional. A new user is going to be much more easily swayed to the IBM world than they are to the Mac world.
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It's the only company that can provide a PC platform that can run Windows and the Mac. It plays well into their switch campaign. They are trying to more aggressively go after those who have been on the fence.
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The move to Intel is critical to Apple's future because it allows (the company) to attract the hard-core PC crowd. If they show they can run applications two or three or four times faster, they will get a lot of attention.
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It has turned them into worthy competitors of major PC vendors.
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This hits retailers, and it hits PC makers that were looking toward Vista for a surge in consumer PC sales at the end of the year.
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We're moving into an exciting new phase of personal computing, ... What an Internet appliance is being defined as today is anything that connects to the Internet that isn't a PC.
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What we really are desperate for is next-generation content.
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I think peer-to-peer technologies are starting to become more accepted. Video is a very important part of the Internet and with Internet distribution, they're definitely on the right path. The important factor is to get the content out there, which helps to curb piracy.
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It has potential. If you can tie a quick payment concept to the cell phone and know it's secure and protected, it absolutely becomes a viable platform for digital payments. But the most important thing is to build a secure system that is impenetrable.
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Steve's first love is technology. He has always believed that technology has the ability to change the world.
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I would not be surprised if that is part of the real goal.
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Microsoft's business model is not to create branded hardware. They're a software company. Normally, when they put these kinds of devices together, they're reference designs.
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While Apple has done the best job to date, not everybody is ready to just throw in with Apple. Nor are they willing to do so with Microsoft and their store or Real and their store. In some cases, they'd like to do without the middleman and sell direct to customers.