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Microsoft Admits Risk in Tablet Plans

its Surface family of tablet computers could weaken support for Windows

The tablet took off without Microsoft. Steve Jobs likened it to a car when the PC was a truck. The tablet is a phenomenon. It is happening. It is eating up the world. A lot of the PC action is shifting to the tablet space.

Isn't this what the innovator's dilemma is? To build the next big thing you have to cannibalize your existing cash cow. And why would you do that? Right?

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Samsung Revenues

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Samsung posts record $5.9 billion profit on smartphones

rampant sales of its smartphones .... Apple shipped 26 million iPhones in the June quarter .... Samsung is estimated to have increased sales to around 50 million.

The next iPhone is going to have a bigger screen. Apple learned that from Samsung. The next iPad is going to be smaller. Apple learned that from Nexus 7.

Samsung Galaxy S III is the new standard for smartphones.

These court battles are nonsensical.

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