Black Day for Wintel at Robert Pogson

There’s no good news on the horizon for Wintel:

Sinofsky’s out,
Otellini’s out, and
Tablets are taking over the world of IT, if anything is left after smartphones have their share… and “8″ is a flop.

“NPD DisplaySearch’s fourth quarter North American tablet shipment forecast is 21.5 million units, far exceeding the 14.6 million notebooks and mini-notes that are expected to ship in the same period. Starting in 2013 in North America, tablet shipments are expected to exceed notebook shipments on an annual basis for the first time; 80 million tablets versus 63.8 million notebooks. On a worldwide basis, tablet shipments aren’t expected to out-ship notebooks until 2015, when 275.9 million tablets are projected to ship, as compared to 270 million notebooks.”

see Black Friday: Catalyst for Tablets to Far Surpass Notebook Shipments in North America | DisplaySearch Blog.

OTOH, there’s no downside at all for */Linux and ARM, or for all of IT for that matter. The world can thrive even if Wintel does not. There’s no doubt Android/Linux on ARM is a roaring success on mobile and GNU/Linux is winning hugely on servers. The only question remaining is when will GNU/Linux have its place on all kinds of boxes in my local retailers? With Wintel sickly, there’s no reason left to keep propping Wintel up. Retailers may well be able to sell more GNU/Linux PCs than Wintel the way things are going. That’s what retailers are supposed to do, eh?

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.