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Authored by: Imaginos1892 on Monday, December 17 2012 @ 12:33 PM EST |
So it says China has got more patent applications than anybody.
Does this mean they're next to go swirling down the Patent
Troll Death Spiral?
If somebody patented the Patent Troll Death Spiral, would that
be recursive, or merely self-referential?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 17 2012 @ 01:09 PM EST |
Dell was offering inferior hardware at premium prices. That might work in the
"enterprise" market, but it won't work in the consumer market, where most
tablets are currently sold. Dell's new strategy may be to sell Windows 8 "Pro"
(x86) models to enterprise markets. It has yet to be seen whether there is a
significant market for these devices however.
At the moment, the under
$200 tablets are at best "OK". However, that is also the most you could say
about any of Dell's current PCs. Tablets though are rapidly becoming better and
better at lower and lower prices. The overall design of tablets (a simple linear
stack of components) lends themselves to efficient manufacturing and
distribution. The software is designed for simple set up and registration by
unskilled users. Ultimately, the problem that Dell will have is that tablet
prices are heading lower and lower, squeezing the profit out of the market. That
is good for consumers, but bad for companies like Dell that have large corporate
overheads. Whether there is a place for any traditional IT vendor in such a
market is a good question.
Tablets can offer a lot of advantages to
businesses whose employees are not desk bound data shufflers. To take advantage
of them though, businesses will need to change their IT infrastructure rather
than on pounding square pegs into round holes (even if the rectangular pegs do
have rounded corners). Fortunately, the other big trends in IT, the web
and "cloud" services are well suited to work with tablets because they are
designed to be independent of the end device. IT department members are sweating
buckets over tablets, because they don't see where they personally fit into a
situation where MS Active Directory is irrelevant.
Traditional desktop
PCs won't go away entirely, just like mainframes didn't go away. However, they
(like mainframes) won't be the centre of computing development anymore. The
typical desktop PC of the future may simply be a tablet plugged into a larger
monitor. Dell will need to adapt to this sort of future by concentrating on
servers and on services. Ultimately, they will likely end up being bought by
some larger enterprise vendor.
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Authored by: UncleVom on Monday, December 17 2012 @ 06:10 PM EST |
It will be interesting to see where this is actually heading.
I'm not sure quite which side this brief really falls on.
Is it potentially:
1) A crack in the software patent armor pried open by the Government?
2) An attempt to further cloud software patent issues and displease everybody
except the legal profession?
3) A very poor starting point for future political bargaining and compromise?
4) All of the above.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, December 18 2012 @ 02:28 AM EST |
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