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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makes Palm a worthy competitor in enterprise accounts.
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If you're a consumer and you decided to wait out the Christmas season, you're going to get some great buys from a price standpoint very shortly.
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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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Anybody that's coming into the market at this point really has a tough road ahead of them.
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Dell is notorious for taking a wait-and-see approach, and then, if something catches on, coming in and dominating it.
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Apple will continue to be a force in portable music and video, and desktop innovation.
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The Shuffle has been a pretty big hit. There's a perception that a 1-gigabyte player is a bit small, and so Apple has to be looking at a higher-density flash-based player. But it's really hard to anticipate Apple's actions. They may be using all this flash memory for something else.
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Apple is taking steps to move their brand to other rooms beyond just the Mac. It's no longer just sitting in the den.
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Apple is on more people's radar now that the company is a major force. And these are all growing pains.
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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.
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This time, they really made the interface simpler.
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We're moving toward an Internet economy. Whether people understand it or not, we're moving to a place where as much as 50 percent of all our purchases will be done over the Internet in the next five years.
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We think the biggest boost will come with the release of Whistler in the third quarter, which potentially could drive significant sales if Microsoft is effective in pushing the streaming media component of that,
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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.