[Swordmaker]

More and more analysts are beginning to think that Apple's iPad should be counted as a Personal Computer when counting total sales of personal computers... Which would make Apple the Number One PC Maker in the US—PING!

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[Dr. Sivana]

An iPad is more like an “appliance” than a PC. An 8-bit CPM box from 1981 has a more accessible operating system. If it is a PC, then so is an iPod Touch.

[Erik Latranyi]

Apple's tablet has a microprocessor, graphics processor and storage disk, runs an operating system and third-party applications and connects to the Internet.

...and so do most smartphones today, but we do not count them as PCs!

The lines are blurring between products, which is good for everyone, and will continue to blur as time goes on.

To get caught up in minutae like "who is ranked highest" is like a big penis contest among children.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

In a sense AAPL answered the question in the negative a while back, when it dropped "Computer" from its corporate name.

OTOH isn't iOS an operating system? What else but a computer runs under an operating system?

I guess maybe the "PC" is dying. If you define the "PC" in terms of the traditional keyboard and mouse . . .

[antiRepublicrat]

They’d be counting it as a PC if it ran Windows. It’s also around the price of a mid-range PC, so it’s above the regular “media tablet” market.

[DustyMoment]

I cut my PC teeth on Apple’s Macintosh system and, over time, really grew to like it. However, I had to give in to convention and go with Windows and, for many years, I thought PCs with Windows were ok.

Increasingly, however, I am becoming very disenchanted with Microsoft routinely changing their OS after proclaiming that each OS release is the last OS you’ll ever need. IMO, they have made each successive OS release worse than the last one.

With Apple, I found myself trapped in the “init” wars between Apple’s OS and a publisher’s application. When an application didn’t work after I installed it, the publisher would point to Apple’s OS as being the problem. When I called Apple, they would point to the publisher’s init as the problem. I was out the money, couldn’t take the software back and had an application that didn’t work.

Between the two of them today, either one is a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea!!

[TheBattman]

Do PC makers count netbooks as “PCs”? If so, then I see no problem counting the iPad as a PC - as it basically reflects Apple’s idea of a netbook.

[gitmo]

Looks like 12.4 million US Windows PCs vs 1.7 million Apples. Have they shipped 12 million ipads?