The BusinessInsider published some awesome charts from Horace Dediu of Asymco that shows the collapse of Microsoft (MSFT) and Intel’s (INTC) monopoly in personal computing. Henry Blodget says the chart shows how Google‘s (GOOG) Android and Apple (AAPL) have successfully eaten into Wintel‘s market share. Is it the end of Microsoft?
Blodget included a chart from BI Intelligence showing the unit sales of PCs, smartphones, and tablets.
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This does not say that Microsoft is going to collapse. It still has a number of successful businesses. It’s just not going to run the world like it once did according to the article. So this is not the end of Microsoft.
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