“[Tablets] have not risen to expectations. Apple, the lead market maker in the category, has recently flipped from an emerging market strategy to a cash cow strategy with its latest reduced-price iPad offering, suggesting it now believes that tablets are on life support.”

— Rob Enderle

Why Fake News on PC and Printer Death Is Dangerous http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/unfiltered-opinion/why-fake-news-on-pc-and-printer-death-is-dangerous.html in IT Business Edge (6 April 2017)

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