The rapidly growing tablet computer market appears to be taking a toll on PC demand.
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This explains why Transmeta is, initially at least, aiming its products at the portable-computer market.
Market researcher IDC now places Apple third in the U.S. computer market, tied with Gateway.
On Tuesday, semiconductor giant Intel vowed to get a bigger piece of the fast-growing tablet computer market.
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That hints the new devices may not be poised to devour the rest of the computer market anytime soon.
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Apple owns 79.3% of the Chinese tablet computer market, compared to just 5.1% for rival Samsung, according to IDC.
In 2005 the iPod helped the company to increase its share of the personal-computer market from 3% to 4%.
Price is arguably the reason Apple missed out on much of the joy in the first round of the personal computer market.
And the iPad -- the latest incarnation of which went on sale last month, continues to dominate the tablet computer market.
Along with an expanding world economy, the computer market is expected to improve in both 2010 and 2011 in consumer and corporate segments.
The computer maker grabbed 6% of the U.S. personal computer market in the first quarter, according to IDC, up from 4.9% the year before.
This belief is partly a gut reaction to the tight grip of Microsoft and Intel, the world's top chip maker, on the personal-computer market.
Roger Kay, a computer analyst at market research firm IDC, estimates flat to slightly higher revenue for the total U.S. personal computer market this year.
Market researcher IDC now places Apple third in the U.S. computer market, tied with Gateway (nyse: GTW - news - people ).
Others whine that Apple still hasn't cracked the corporate computer market.
Michael Dell, the founder of Dell, which leads the personal-computer market by selling direct to the customer, has long thought many shops will turn into showrooms.
Consider that ten homebuilders account for 23% of the U.S. market, while 35% of the personal computer market is dominated by two players, Dell and Hewlett-Packard.
With a growing number of analysts predicting a glut in the tablet computer market, focusing on netbooks and notebooks might not be such a terrible plan.
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Fujitsu is kicking off a big push into the U.S. computer market with a high-end server intended to take on IBM and Hewlett-Packard in their home turf.
Steve Jobs is famous for hitting the computer market with stuff it didn't see coming, whether it's a smart phone with no buttons or a metal-clad home computer.
The numbers are in sharp contrast with the traditional personal computer market, which saw shipments decline during the quarter for the first time in more than five years.
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In particular, analysts say Apple will lock down its dominance of the touchscreen computer market, moving more of its iPad tablet devices through retail partners, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
One could argue that the slow-growth consumer desktop computer market needs more pizzazz to create excitement, but shouldn't a company be advancing the product that's driving its growth most aggressively?
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Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba are shipping hybrid HDDs targeted for the ultra-thin mobile computer market with up to 8 GB of flash memory and 1 TB hard disk storage.
India's tablet computer market is still nascent compared with other parts of the world but is growing, with telecommunication companies rolling out high-speed Internet networks using third-generation and fourth-generation communication technology.
Not content to raise the pressure on Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Gateway in the computer market, Apple also tweaked software company Microsoft, rolling out new editions of its iLife and iWork desktop software packages.
Moreover the halo effect from the hot-selling media players has led to a surge in sales of Apple desktop and laptop computers that has made Apple a player in the computer market once again.
It were Intel and Microsoft that reaped the great big benefits of the booming computer market and not grandfather Big Blue IBM, which ended up in a severe crisis as a result of it.
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