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HTC to develop Tablets and wearable devices

- Sunday, 30 March 2014 No Comments

HTC have again cleared that it is in a course to develop Tablets and wearable devices after setting its iconic image in the handset market.According to our trusted source HTC  to develop Tablets and wearable devices. In an interview with The China Post on the sidelines of the company's flagship smartphone, HTC One (M8), HTC CEO Peter Chou confirmed that the company will launch the tablet and wearable computing products "at an appropriate time". The company officials clearly instated the release of the smart watch in the coming summer. Also the newly developed Tablets will be available at the mid of this year.

Rumors about NEXUS 8.9 Tablet   

The rumors are surfacing that Google have contacted HTC to develop the new NEXUS 8.9. The tablet is to go under production in July, and will be available in market by the end of this year.

New market plan

The company wants to compete in low end market smartphones

Chou said he hopes the company will gain 8 to 10% of the smartphone market 'in the long run.' Presently, HTC's share of the global smartphone market is less than 5%. According to smartphone shipments data offered by Gartner, Samsung leads the smartphones segment with a market share of 31%, followed by Apple which has a 15.6% share and Huawei and LG registering a market share of 4.8% each. 

So it is clear that HTC will be facing a tough competition from Samsung, Lenovo, Apple etc. 

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Microsoft's office for iPads not so productive

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Microsoft's office for iPads not so productive

There was a time when Microsoft had a monopoly for various application development in past few decades. But time changes fast and sudden. In recent years Microsoft’s office applications are not providing as much revenue to the firm as they used to do.

The main reason for this change can be easily determined from the switch of people from desktop to fast and portable hand held devices. iPads and other tablets have become attractive substitutes for many PC functions, like web browsing, watching videos and reading emails. Last year, global shipments of PCs fell 10% from the year before, while tablet sales grew 68%, according to the research firm Gartner.

So Microsoft have shown a great desire to develop office applications for iPads. But they are facing a huge competition from the various application developers which have grown very good market by providing more comfortable application to work with. Adam Tratt, chief executive of Haiku Deck, a presentation app for the iPad that competes with PowerPoint, sees Microsoft's foray into iPad apps as largely a defensive move, rather than a chance to generate incremental revenue.

"The opportunity is to not lose a $25 billion market," said Tratt, who was an Office product manager in the 1990s.

"It gave Microsoft a huge opening to establish the Office franchise," Silverberg said. "Microsoft is in danger of doing the same kind of thing now."

Microsoft's previous chief executive, Steve Ballmer, said late last year that the company was working on Office for the iPad.

From its launch from 2012 office formally provided no extra revenue which was expected. Another cause for its unfamiliarity may be that it won’t work good with touchscreens.