Goldman Sach's Analyst Comparing iPad to PC Sales? Say What?

You’ve heard the saying that you shouldn’t compare apples to oranges. So, why are some people comparing Apple iPads to PCs (desktop or notebook computers)? All Things Digital reports on a Goldman Sachs analyst who is apparently doing just that.

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Goldman Sachs’s Bill Shope, who says exploding sales of the device may well make Apple “one of the largest vendors in the global personal computing market” – assuming you define that market as including both PCs and tablets.

If Shope were comparing the old Microsoft Windows based Tablet PC to other PCs, I would not have any issue.

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