Stephen Sinofsky, who led the Windows team at the time the iPhone and iPad were introduced, had a very different take on the iPad that he recently shared.
>In first year 2010–2011 Apple sold 20 million iPads. That same year would turn out to be an historical high water mark for PCs (365M, ~180M laptops). Analysts had forecasted more than 500M PCs were now rapidly increasing tablet forecasts to 100’s of million and dropping PC.
The iPad and iPhone were soundly existential threats to Microsoft’s core platform business.
>In first year 2010–2011 Apple sold 20 million iPads. That same year would turn out to be an historical high water mark for PCs (365M, ~180M laptops). Analysts had forecasted more than 500M PCs were now rapidly increasing tablet forecasts to 100’s of million and dropping PC.
The iPad and iPhone were soundly existential threats to Microsoft’s core platform business.
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