Is The Apple iPad Really Killing The Sale Of Laptop PCs?
Is the Apple iPad really killing off sales of laptop PCs? Best Buy is hinting that this may be the case. The company does admit they do not have all of the data in yet to justify this claim, but there seems to be some indication that the iPad may just be a PC killer when it comes to laptop sales. Here are some of the facts from a recent article: Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn “said internal estimates showed that the iPad had cannibalized sales from laptop PCs by as much as 50 percent.” By the time I first saw the news nugget being tweeted, that had morphed into “by 50 percent”—and conclusion jumping was in Olympic form. The instant assumption: buyers are choosing iPads over laptops. Yes, no and maybe. From an anecdotal basis as someone often asked to help others with tech spending decisions, people who need computing power and features that aren’t on the iPad go with laptops (Mac or PC), while the iPad is an answer for people who own a computer for the heavy lifting and are attracted to the s
Best Buy Thinks It Is Happening Is the Apple iPad really killing off sales of laptop PCs? Best Buy is hinting that this may be the case. The company does admit they do not have all of the data in yet to justify this claim, but there seems to be some indication that the iPad may just be a PC killer when it comes to laptop sales. Here are some of the facts from a recent article: Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn “said internal estimates showed that the iPad had cannibalized sales from laptop PCs by as much as 50 percent.” By the time I first saw the news nugget being tweeted, that had morphed into “by 50 percent”—and conclusion jumping was in Olympic form. The instant assumption: buyers are choosing iPads over laptops. Yes, no and maybe. From an anecdotal basis as someone often asked to help others with tech spending decisions, people who need computing power and features that aren’t on the iPad go with laptops (Mac or PC), while the iPad is an answer for people who own a computer for the heavy li
