Android Smartphones Benefit from Robust China Sales: Canalys Report

In China, Samsung maintained its lead and grabbed 17 percent market
share—though its growth was flat. The more phenomenal showings were
arguably from ZTE, in second place, which achieved 171 percent growth,
followed by Lenovo, with 2,665 percent growth (that is not a typo) and
Huawei with 252 percent growth year over year.

Apple, in fifth place, grew shipments in China by 102 percent year
over year, though this was down 37 percent from the quarter before.

“Collectively, domestic Chinese vendors shipped 25.6 million units,
representing growth of 518 percent and 60 percent of the [overall]
market,” reported Canalys. “By comparison, international vendors grew by
a more modest 67 percent to 16.7 million units.”

China has been a focus for the ailing Nokia, though with Motorola it
“lost significant ground” in China during the quarter said the report.
It added that, among the international vendors, only HTC “managed an
outstanding performance in mainland China,” with shipments that grew 389
percent year on year to reach 1.8 million during the quarter.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Android-Smartphones-Benefit-from-Robust-China-Sales-Canalys-Report-171533/

China will follow Korea and japan to become 80%+ android land.... Korea is 90%+  ..this followed by SEAsia...now approaching 70%+.

Apple wants Moon - appeal given
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, August 02 2012 @ 12:26 PM EDT
Apple now wants Judge to rule that Samsung infringed as part of the sanctions.

Apple apparently believes that a trial is totally a waste of time.

The smart thing for the judge would be to declare a mistrial and recuse herself otherwise her reputation will be mud.

If it is not already mud.

No matter what happens this will all be appealed anyway.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2012080117581118#comments

But she has to play the game. My feeling says she is paid for or there is big behind the scene games. So Samsung has to counter this. Yes, this trial will drag for years and years... expensive, long, multi faceted and drawn out. at some point in distant future, Samsung will come out ahead due to massive technological lead. This would be my strategy if were to play the game. This is how all litigation games was played by companies like ATT, IBM, Microsoft, etc. Overwhelming market lead, technical resource and lawyering. Time will destroy the rest.

Apple has no technology nor manufacturing capability. In the game of global market endurance, they will be destroyed. Joining Palm inc. RIMM and Nokia. (hell nokia has giant manufacturing base and R&D expenditure, they will last longer)

Time for apple to hire more movie stars to hawk their overpriced gears.

Apple will lose china market, their highest revenue and growth profit in less than 2 years. The number says so. After that, apple will lose one market after another in asia, EMEA then europe in very quick succession. (nokia rehash) If US economy continue to be weak in 3-4 years... which is very likely, Apple will start screaming mommy by 1.5-2 iphone generation from now...(circa 2015-2016) 

by then, all samsung has to do is simply buy apple out. (ala Microsoft)

Apple big advantage is their fanboyz and wallstreet crowd. Nothing else. Apple is not technological company and has no deep R&D culture. It's design school clowns.

The big message for Android, only massive technological lead will solve apple problem. Few cute features ahead is not going to cut it, it has to be 3-4 generations ahead (graphic, screen, wireless, battery, compactness, design .... Android has to evolve 2-3 times faster than apple ..

Dear Apple, we get it.

Sidebar: In my opinion, the "superior ecosystem"
argument is dead. It's a challenge to find apps that make compelling
reasons to consider the iPhone over an Android phone. If gaming is being
touted as a valid reason, let's get real - if you really enjoy
your gaming, you're too busy on Steam to notice, and if your game is
really that good, there's probably an Android version or one in the
works. App developers aren't stupid either. 

We get it, the iPhone 4S is a great phone, and is often touted as the best phone. A lot of your competitors are "stealing" your ideas. They are probably jealous of all the great press you get.

Yet, it has no expandable memory, a paltry 512 MB of RAM, and an
aging 1Ghz Dual core processor, in a era of 2GB RAM Quad Core phones,
replaceable batteries and expandable storage. Since the 4S, Samsung has
already released three different phones that trump each of these specs,
each along with several others - better front facing camera, etc. You
are playing catch-up, and in this age of instant gratification where
"better now" beats "wait for better later", you cannot possibly be
deluded enough to believe that people are buying Samsung phones because
they look like iPhones. 

We get it, you offer really good customer service. People should be flocking to your products, but something is wrong!

I've heard anecdotes and read blog posts about how people have walked
into Apple stores with cracked and broken iPhones who have been handed
brand new phones, with no questions asked. That's fantastic, in first
world countries. Elsewhere (India, for example), the Apple Store sends
you to an "Apple Service Center" that is notorious for charging
consumers 75% and 80% of the cost of a brand new iPhone, just to have
their batteries and screens replaced. Not to mention these excellent points.

Let it go.

You are the world's most valuable corporation,
and are no longer the underdog. In this scenario, nobody is rooting for
you. In fact, all this patent nonsense is just making you look bad.

http://gist.io/3224752

Samsung’s latest high-speed flash memory will power your next smartphone, tablet

http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/02/samsung-mass-production-emmc-pro-class-1500/

Samsung Initiates Production of Industry's Fastest NAND Flash for Smartphones and Tablets.

Samsung's New eMMC Supports 140MB/s Read Speed

The new Samsung eMMC (embedded multimedia card) Pro Class 1500
delivers the industry’s fastest speeds for an embedded memory device,
reading data sequentially at up to 140MB/s and writing it at up to
50MB/s. For random reading and writing, it can process up to 3500/1500
IOPS (inputs and outputs per second), four times the speed of previous
eMMC solutions.

The ultra high-speed storage device uses Samsung’s 64Gb NAND with a
toggle DDR 2.0 interface based on the company’s latest 20nm-class
process technology. The new eMMC’s fully managed NAND memory comes with
its own high performance controller and intelligent flash management
firmware.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/memory/display/20120802090349_Samsung_Initiates_Production_of_Industry_s_Fastest_NAND_Flash_for_Smartphones_and_Tablets.html

Quick look at tablet in the past 3 yrs. 

Has google switched on the mandarin voice recognition? If so, they will be far ahead in term of sale in Taiwan and china. Then they should hit the gas pedal harder because apple has zero functioning voice recognition there.

Crocheted myself a cover for my N7

http://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus7/comments/xleay/crocheted_myself_a_cover_for_my_n7/

June global chip sales stay soft on U.S. weakness

LONDON – Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached a three-month average
of $24.38 billion in June for the month of June 2012, a decrease of 0.1
percent from the prior month when the averaged sales were $24.40
billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.

The
sales came in slightly below some analysts' expectations and sequential
decline in the Americas region of 3.6 percent has offset sequential
growth in the Japanese and Asia Pacific regions.

The averaged global sales for June 2012 were 2 percent lower than in
June 2011. The three-month averages have been below their equivalents in
2011 throughout the first half of 2012 although the difference is
diminishing, the SIA said.

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4391675/June-global-chip-sales-stay-soft-on-U-S--weakness

9:18 AM: "The iPhone was a brand-new concept. A new
generation of smartphone. The way we ended up helping people understand
it's capabiities was to break it up into three uses."

9:19 AM When asked about reaction Schiller states that "The
range of reaction was everything you could imagine, from excitement for
this breakthrough product to doubt that Apple could succeed with it."

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/3/3217057/day-two-testimony-apple-samsung-trial

Gimme a friggin break. HTC wallaby has a lot of innovative firsts ( radio, large color touch screen full OS, media, etc... very loaded. the first to put it in one place...was done by Compaq/HTC) This is BEFORE capacitive screen was even invented. (hell, the reason capacitive screen effort was made was BECAUSE of this phones...)

Guess who has all capacitive screen patents? lol (If apple was so forward looking in early 00' with all that touch screen, how come they didn't have a single patent on 'capacitive' screen? compare to current all sort of dubious patent on fantasy technology that they are spewing? Oh that's right, apple doesn't know a thing about 'capacitive screen' because at the time it's extremely high tech and secret techniques. It's all Microsoft, 3M, compaq...etc. Nobody knows how to manufacture capacitive screen in quantity.)

Apple DOES NOT own smartphone patent at all around 1995 to 2006. They have zip. they are not inventor of anything. Compared this to other people who actually makes smartphones and hold tons of patent and can actually point to actual product.

Just show Apple's patent filing statistic related to smartphones (a very complex technology) in the past 20 years and compare it to Samsung, and nobody sane will accept Apple invented "smartphone".. They don't know jack. They have to stick with round corner and bouncing scroll.

I wonder why apple is not claiming they invented color screen in smartphones...lol
Probably that iPad retina display made by Samsung too... hilarious.. (at least now everybody learns to lock any and every single invention related to in-cell and ultra high resolution screens. Apple has to suck it up hard to companies who actually invent and make stuff.)

ps. this is where the name XDA forum coming from.

Apple scrambles to keep Samsung from revealing confidential iPhone, iPad sales documents

Apple rushed to file a last minute request with the court to
stop Samsung from making public a series of sensitive sales data
documents related to the iPhone and iPad when it cross examines Philip
Schiller, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, later
today.



The judge presiding over the patent case between Apple and Samsung has
worked to keep the closely watched trial, and all related evidence, as
transparently open as possible, but has allowed both parties to argue in
support of sealing specific, confidential evidence on a case-by-case
basis.



In addition to sales and marketing data, Apple's various motions to keep
evidence private and confidential have also included iOS source code,
which the company holds to be particularly sensitive.



Apple has most recently filed two motions related to eight confidential
trial exhibits of sales data, which the company's attorneys described as
"a particularized, document-by-document showing of good cause and
compelling reasons for sealing of Apple’s most competitively sensitive
information."



The motions included "declarations from several of its executives
attesting to the value of this information, the efforts Apple has
undertaken to maintain its secrecy, and the harm that Apple would suffer
if it were publicly disclosed."


http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/08/03/apple_scrambles_to_keep_samsung_from_revealing_confidential_iphone_ipad_sales_documents.html

post defect rate. specification short coming and return rate! lol...

Steve Jobs was 'very receptive' to a 7-inch iPad

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/3/3218436/steve-jobs-was-very-receptive-to-a-7-inch-ipad

o plese, o please o please.... 
..let there be 7.85 inch iPad. so I can say my "short bus of tablet" joke...
please dear God, let it be so....

I am going to have such a great time with that.


Vizio... the 8 inch tablet. ..
half of china probably ready to start suing apple with this 8" news.
endless size comparison video

pleaseee.apple..make that 8 inch tablet... don't forget sappy story about designing it on big kitchen table, over american pie ... fake prototypes too. At least one in white and one with iPod look. And better hide that galaxy tab 7.7 LTE you've been planning to rip off. Good luck trying to slap A5X on such thin device tho'. You also gonna need more lawyers and bribe the patent office harder to convince them you invented the idea of 8" rectangle.

PS. apple. your litigious days are about to boomerang in very nasty way. Either you copy standard 7" or you make funny looking 4:3 8" that people will laugh at. Either way, I can't wait for release day. (I hope that 40nm A5X won't overheat and drain the batter in under 6 hrs. you only have space for 4300mAh max)

A new report by Canalys finds that during the second quarter,
Android
was the operating system on 81 percent of smartphone shipments in China
-- which accounted for some 27 percent of global smartphone shipments
overall. (By comparison, the United States accounted for 16 percent.)

Globally, Android continued to surge and passed 100 million quarterly
smartphone shipments for the first time, according to the report. More
than 42 million smartphones got shipped in China out of the total 158
million shipped worldwide during the quarter, according to Canalys.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57486377-94/apple-slips-android-big-winner-in-china-during-q2/

yep...here come 70% Android and 15% iOS...should have happened sooner had it not for 3.1 and 4.0 adoption rate debacle.

Apple's day in china is numbered.
1. the mid range will soon be populated with dual core/integrated 3G from mediatek. sub $150 device (4S level of performance)
2. at the high end Huawei has K3v2, nvidia + ZTE/Xiome doing tegra 3, and whatever HTC is doing to compensate for US market lost. Apple won't have enough A6 to cover global market for good half year..which is eternity. By the time they are able to produce enough. A15 class processor will also be ready to compete.

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4391662/Foundries-soar--Japanese-IDMs-slide-in-IC-sales-rankings

smartphones really saves everybody's behind.

Samsung estimated to pay Microsoft $12-13 per Android handset for more than $600 million in revenue in Q2

According to the Trefis team
Microsoft is receiving patent licensing fees from Samsung to the tune
of $12-$13 per Android handset.  HTC is said to have a slightly kinder
deal, at $10 per Android device.

With Samsung having sold more than 50 million Android handsets in Q2
2012, that represents more than $600 million in revenue. Adding HTC’s 8
million devices brings the number close to $700 million.

Of course one would expect such a massive revenue stream to show up in Microsoft’s accounts, and there is no obvious entry in Microsoft’s Q2 2012 accounts
but one can imagine this money would  more than compensate for the $250
million ‘platform support payments’ to Nokia each quarter, not to
mention development and support of Windows Phone.

Do our readers think these numbers are realistic, leaving Samsung to
effectively subsidize Windows Phone development? Let us know below.

-----------

extortion

Nokia Siemens Networks plans more China layoffs

Nokia Siemens Networks, the world's fourth-largest telecom gear maker, is planning to lay off around 300 employees in China.

This will be the company's second layoff in China this year. In March, it cut 350 jobs in the Chinese market.

A China-based Nokia Siemens Networks official, speaking on condition
of anonymity, said the layoff announcement was released on Friday. The
move is part of the company's global plan to cut 17,000 employees by the
end of 2013, he said.

http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2012-08/01/content_15639158.htm

Nokia is out from China. There won't be anything left after all the core employees are joining competitors. (bringing customer list and relationship of course) Consider Nokia out of china a done deal. They won't recover from this death spiral in china.

Compared to Android undergound tweak, most of apple's stuff surprisingly mild. They are built in in Android or common freebie customization app. Why won't they allow harmless UI tweak like this?...I guess it will take a while yet for apple to have extreme mod like CM10 stuff

I guess this means new iPad 4, since current ipad 3 will have noticeable graphics difference compared to Tegra 3 capability when it comes to newer games. gravity/shaking and how car swerve still don't look natural tho' ... need to add more dust and blur effect. Everything looks too shiny.

Galaxy Note 10.1 doing 4 flash vids at once on a web page... impressive. If they can do it with 11 inch 250+ppi...


of course sub 1080p video looks very poor on ultra high resolution screen. compression artifacts showing.

A Trick For Understanding Trials - Apple's Trial Brief as text, and Trade Dress

By the way, you should read the entire Posner ruling. It's like a cool drink of water on an August day. Here's another ruling
[PDF] of his, where he sees through an Apple legal maneuver. Apple
has been portraying Samsung like it's the bad guy, but trust me, both
sides are fighting with real bullets, so to speak.

This judge is worrying me, as is the magistrate. I am worrying they
may be putting administrative rule-keeping decisions they issue way
above making sure the jury gets all the relevant evidence. Is there some
reason why expedited scheduling is more important than getting this
right? As Samsung's lawyer asked the judge when she refused to allow
evidence to be used, Why even have a trial? What's the point?

I'll give you an example. Apple goes on and on about Samsung being
late with evidence in discovery. They were. Three times that I've
counted as I've been reading as many of the filings as I could over the
weekend, trying to get up to speed. And as a result, the judges ruled in
various rulings that they can't use certain evidence to defend
themselves at trial. Do you know how late Samsung was in the three
instances I found? Two days late on two occasions, and one month late
on another.

Or read this Order
[PDF] in March by Judge Koh, denying Samsung the right to add five new
examples of prior art. Samsung heard about the prior art, tried to
investigate, had some difficulty finding computers to run the stuff on,
negotiated with Apple to try to avoid motion practice -- you guessed it,
after a while Apple said no -- and then Samsung gets smacked by the
judge for taking too long to ask to amend. Read the dates for yourself.
See how reasonable it seems, and then add on to it more and more such
orders.


Does it seem fair to you or a little schoolmarmy? With so much as
stake, on both sides, shouldn't evidence in the jury's hands be more
important than a party being two days late?

That's what has Samsung worried. The judge keeps removing evidence from their side. Just over and over. Here's the latest denial.

Now, being late matters, especially if it's planned. And newly
discovered evidence can certainly be banned if it's too late and there
is the likelihood that it was strategically held back or it would be
prejudicial to the other side. That happened to SCO in the IBM
case, if you recall. And I don't know all the specifics here, but if
you look at all the separate pieces of evidence being tossed overboard
in this case, there does seem to be pattern. I haven't followed the
case closely enough from the beginning to know if Samsung has been
delinquent, or if Apple has too (it's been sanctioned too, you know), or
if the court is overly strict about sanctioning everyone right and
left. But something feels wrong. It doesn't feel normal.

----------

Because of the potential costs to Motorola and the federal judiciary I
could not responsibly order injunctive relief in favor of Apple without
knowing whether the lower cost of a compulsory license at a reasonable
royalty would produce a better balance of hardships. I note, amplifying
earlier points, the absence of evidence that if Motorola is infringing
the patent claims at issue, it is imposing a significant cost on Apple.
Consider the ‘002, which Apple charges is infringed by Motorola’s
preventing partial obstruction of its smartphones’ notification windows.
There is no evidence, and it seems more than unlikely, that occasional
partial obstruction would appreciably reduce the value of Motorola’s
smartphones to consumers—Apple didn’t even bother to install a
notification window on its devices until last year. Consider next the
‘949, which Apple contends is infringed by Motorola’s enabling customers
who buy a Motorola smartphone with a Kindle reader pre-installed to
turn pages by tapping on the screen rather than by swiping a finger
across it (which actually is more like turning pages than tapping is).
Consider the ‘263, the realtime patent, alleged to be infringed by
Motorola’s adopting a method for avoiding glitches in “real time”
communications (such as movies) that has not been shown to provide a
superior experience to consumers than al- ternative, noninfringing
realtime software or hardware or oth- erwise drive consumer demand for
the iPhone. And consider the ‘647 (structural linking and detection),
which also provides unproved consumer benefits.

The notion that these minor-seeming infringements have cost Apple market
share and consumer goodwill is implausible, has virtually no support in
the record, and so fails to indicate that the benefits to Apple from an
injunction would exceed the costs to Motorola. An injunction that
imposes greater costs on the defendant than it confers benefits on the
plaintiff reduces net

social welfare. That is the insight behind the “balance of hardships”
component of the eBay standard for injunctive relief in patent cases.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120805030730169#comments

This judge is playing political game. She knows she can get away with it because she has political backing. (hey if I comes from palo alto, I would be scared shit of apple too. They own that town. She will be out of job in a jiffy. elected judge and all.)

Howard said that Samsung was aware of Apple lawyers meeting with at
least one of the experts to change his mind, although two ultimately
revised their views.

"Apple's lawyers convened a meeting, and the expert was asked to
reconsider his views," Samsung's Howard told Justice Annabelle Bennett.

Howard said that the errata report should not have been filed last
night — and that if two of the experts have changed their views since
the original report was filed, they should testify as to why.

"If the experts want to change or qualify the report, this should be
subject to sworn evidence ... explaining how and why they came to change
their opinion," she said.

"We should be permitted to cross-examine them on how they came to change."

http://www.zdnet.com/samsung-accuses-apple-of-leaning-on-expert-witnesses-7000002155/

This is a kangaroo court. watch out. it's rigged.

BTW, better MAKE SURE NOT a single member of legal team actually using Apple "cloud" or apple device. those devices are practically apple's listening post. (Not sure if Samsung team is that dumb, but hey...

all electronic equipment has to be clean, isolated, and running through secure pipe.

Hey Google... I am not sure if you are paying attention or not, but the tablet world is shifting. N7 is working, but needs to be in bigger volume by several times. But Asus capacity is straining.

Definitely need a revamped strategy to keep tablet momentum going because post N7 picture is changing. My sense, Apple is getting very worried. Despite 8" iPad mini having strange measure and will cannibalize all expensive iPad, Nexus 7 will experience slowdown if $299 model is not introduced.

Android tablet has big hole. It's all low end and extreme high end. There is no mid range sweet spot.

At the moment, only Samsung has production capacity and technical know-how to quickly produce $399 7"inch in massive quantity. But domestic press is VERY HOSTILE, and there won't be any press coverage even if Samsung actually releasing an excellent device in $299 range.

Solution:  Nexus 7b.

Use Nexus 7 momentum and expand to newer target audience)

Requirement:
- Price : $299-399
- Launch exactly at the same date iPad mini begins selling. (a week later goes on sale, if not the same date as launch day)
- CPU (early version of A15, or whatever Galaxy Note 10.1 is using. It has to be FAST.  Samsung is the only people who has spare 32nm at the moment.) It has to eat A5X alive, and more or less matched  A6, until android A15 batch is ready for mid range.
- Screen must have significantly improved color accuracy (contrast, blackness, white). It doesn't have to be too bright.  LCD/OLED? bla bla. whichever can be produced quickly and cheaply. It doesn't matter as long as it has significantly improved color accuracy.
- 32GB, 64GB
- Battery performance should be very similar if not slightly longer than Nexus 7. non replaceable

- Size. Thinness. From ergonomic point of view, N7 thickness is perfect. But from marketing point of view, ultra thin device looks good. (6-7 mm.)  I for one would say: build 7mm device, but make sure it comes with "free sliding sleeve" that people can put on the device to give the extremely popular Nexus 7 "grippy" back cover. (make sure it feels like luxury leather.

- Significantly thinner/ no side basel. (half the size of N7 horizontal basel) Which means, the touch screen has to have extra side sensor, with which the device will know it a palm is resting on the basel, instead of a finger trying to activate touch screen.

- It must not look like an iPAD (I am sick of iPad look, think of something radically new, with 7mm. Quote Sony ultra thin device.

- Material, anything BUT white plastic or polished aluminum look. if it looks like Apple's stolen bauhaus design, please kill yourself..  Tell samsung to grow some ball and put out advanced design on tablet for once. Nexus 7 proves that iPad look is OVER RATED. (One more device with white plastic+ aluminum rounded corner look,  heads must roll.) I don't want cheap made in china cheap plastic look either. so find new composite, plastics and alloy. New ultra cutting edge look. (Hire Zaha hadid maybe?)

- It must weight the same or less than Nexus 7. Approaching 300g would be amazing.

- rows of blinken light (indicators/disco/what have you. I don't care they are unnecessary. I like indicator light. soft color in tiny details. all labeled more meticulously than NASA's space shuttle buttons.)
- All buttons on one side, like an expensive Sony walkman. hell create combination that can double as controller pads without turning gaudi.)
- wifi, sensor (standard)
- micro USB, standard. (no HDMI)
- micro SD.
- significantly improved audio quality.
- splash & dust proof
- Support MIRACAST out of the box.
- even more improved antenna/wireless sensitivity
- multimedia capability, internet, gaming, connecting to rest of house equipments (screen, stereo, PC.

----------------------------
In short, it's basically Galaxy tab 7.7, but with 7", new processor, new non-lame chasis, and whatever screen fit the bill. lots of buttons. lots of blinken light.

http://www.stereo2go.com/displayForumTopic/content/193392314111807423/page/1?nc=1

http://www.yugatech.com/personal-computing/sony-vaio-x-unboxed/

As industry juggernauts Apple and Samsung trade blows in court, The Kernel
has taken a look at the proverbial skeletons lurking in Samsung's
closet. The piece dissects the chaebol's use of corporate slush funds
and pressure on journalists — including de facto ownership of the Joongang Daily, a
major South Korean newspaper — to secure the company's reputation, and
keep the Korean ambassador to the US and local politicians in line.
Samsung's rocky legal history serves as a sordid backdrop to its current
legal battle, undermining efforts to prove that the company didn't copy
Apple's design mantra wholesale, or that its legal team can be trusted
to speak truthfully when presenting evidence in court. It's a scathing read, but an insightful look at the company's most notorious legal blunders.

http://www.theverge.com/policy/2012/8/7/3226651/samsung-legal-history-scandals

Dude..... ARE YOU forgetting THIS bit?

Apple says options probe clears Jobs

The
iPod maker restates earnings and says CEO Steve Jobs was aware of some
options backdating, but he was not involved with any other wrongdoing;
stock surges on the news.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/29/technology/apple_jobs/index.htm

I am sure the guy wasn't involved...har har...he was so generous with that $1 pay. And how is that 'book" deal scandal going? (eg. another attempt to monopolize a market. It's friggin behavior pattern with apple.)

movie, music, books,...etc.

Acer: Microsoft Surface 'Negative For The Whole PC Industry'

Shortly after Microsoft announced its upcoming Surface tablet, there was speculation that it might sour the company's relationships with OEM partners. Statements from an Acer spokesperson indicate that's definitely the case. The spokesperson told Bloomberg,
"On one hand Microsoft is our partner, but on the other, Microsoft’s
move makes them compete not only with us but all PC makers. We think
that Microsoft’s launch of its own-brand products is negative for the
whole PC industry." The company is reportedly considering whether or not
they want to keep relying on Microsoft's software products.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/08/07/2215225/acer-microsoft-surface-negative-for-the-whole-pc-industry

Surface is DEAD. period. It's worst than Lumia.