iPad Sucked 11% Share of the PC Market!

The IT passion blog by Tej Kohli is a place to find the latest news on Technology sector. In this post, Tej Kohli talks about how the new player iPad ate up the 11% share of the PC market.

From 7 percent market share in January, the iPad now stands at 11 percent.

The gadget was launched only a year ago, and during this quarter Apple sold about 9.25 million iPads which marks a 142% increase from the last year sales.

According to a recent research, the personal computer sales worldwide, excluding tablets were 844 million this quarter. This indicates a 2 percent growth from the last year.

If we look at it from another perspective, lets say that most iPads were sold to users, and that total computer sales are divided equally between consumers and businesses. Going by this, the iPad has already grabbed the 20 percent share of consumer PC market.

Looking at it from yet another perspective, if we put the biggest computer brands in a chronological order, the iPad comes fourth following HP, Dell, and Lenovo. It in fact comes before Acer, says Tej Kohli. Furthermore, if we add the Apple's 3.965 million Macs, it comes to a 13.2 million PCs which it sold, making the second largest computer vendor globally after HP.

The iPad entered the scene only about a year ago, but the PCs have been around since 1980s, with Microsoft's Windows dominating the most of them. During the early 1990s when the MACs were thrown in the market, things changed a little.

Microsoft reports its quarterly earnings on Thursday and expects it to be good this time. Office has been doing well for the last three quarters, and related business server software is also a strong point. But Windows sales reduced by 4% year over year last quarter, and nobody expects that trend to be reversed this quarter. Part of the Windows revenue decline is from strong year-ago numbers thanks to the release of Windows 7, and part of it is the decay of netbooks.

But on a serious note -- a new player just took 11% of what used to be the PC market. Microsoft's Windows monopoly, seems in danger.

For more latest updates by Tej Kohli, keep reading this blog. 

Will You ever get your facebook Friends Inked on your skin?

More often than not, we have seen people getting inked for the love of family, spouse, and even god, but in the rarest of the rare events, a woman got her Facebook friends tattooed on her body. Read the entire news at Tej Kohli IT passion blog. 

We all like our Facebook friends, but do we like them enough to have an ink needle cutting through our flesh a thousand times, over and over again, until their faces are permanently etched into our skin, wonders Tej Kohli.

No, right? But there are some exceptions who apparently loves them so much or perhaps, desperate for seeking the attention of online social circuit that goes along with doing something stupid related to Facebook, including naming the first born child “Like”, or more recently, getting a sleeve tattoo featuring the photos of her 152 Facebook friends.

A You Tube user named Suzyj87, recently uploaded a video showing the process of getting the photos of her Facebook friends inked on her arm.

You may be wondering whether Suzyj87 is close friends with those 152 people--or if those faces are just ones and zeroes on a Web site. On her YouTube page, Suzyj87 explains:

Now, you may be wondering whether all of those 152 faces were close friends with Suzyj87 or they are just other random facebook friends. Here's what she has to say to this.

"Of course I gave it a lot of thought. These are not all my friends. Just the people I care most about. I got their permission and they were very proud to be on it. To me it represents who I am right now and the time we live in. And of course I love the looks of it."

Fair enough! And there is no denying that the patchwork style of her tattoo looks pretty good.

Tej Kohli is an IT expert with more than 10 years of experience in the same field. To read more interesting posts by Tej Kohli, keep reading his blog,