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...broader challenge for FlipStart, OQO and their rivals is establishing a market. Although 228 million computers were sold worldwide in 2006, and a billion mobile phones, demand for ultra-mobile computers may not even reach 150,000 in 2007, according to Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, a technology consulting firm in California's Silicon Valley. Bajarin expects that mini-PC sales won't near the million-a-year mark until 2009 and may fall far short if prices don't drop fast. "To get into the millions of units, they'll have to sell for no more than...
Given that business travelers can get a basic laptop and a cell phone for $2,000, they may hesitate to shell out that much for an early-stage UMPC. That's why Bajarin calls this a "missionary" year for the category, which is counting on early-adopting corporate types who can expense their purchase...
...handy around the hometown as well. Tim Bajarin, president of the tech consultancy Creative Strategies, frequently finds himself strapped for time, unable to get back to the office between meetings. "So when I know I've got a 45-minute break, I head to Starbucks," he says. "I log on, check my e-mail, come up to speed on information that I need and head off to my next meeting...
...when can we move into truly wired homes? Computer industry experts, like Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies in Campbell, California, say it's already possible to build one - if you can afford to throw cash around like Bill Gates. "The pieces are there and you can put them together, but only if you have a lot of money and are prepared to endure all the teething troubles," Bajarin says. Unfortunately, most of us lack that kind of dough. Not to worry, he says: "In a couple of years, all the pieces will be mass-produced and relatively cheap...
...system at a time when desktop computers may be marginalized by the thousand portable "net appliances" looming on the horizon. If Jobs' crystal ball sees that far, he isn't telling. "He doesn't have a pocket Mac in the works, at least that I know of," says Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies Research International, a Silicon Valley consulting firm. "But he's too smart not to be thinking about...