The center of financial gravity in the computing world—the Center of Money—has shifted. No longer directed at the PC, the money pump now gushes full blast at the smartphones market. One of my colleagues, Bob Ackerman, calls smartphones the very personal computers. Measured by size and potential, they’re both smaller and bigger than today’s PCs.
The Math
Consider the numbers: HP, the world’s foremost PC maker, sold $10B of “Personal Systems” in its last reported quarter:
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Despite their premier position, HP isn’t making much PC money: $500M, 5% Operating Profit. (The full HP Q1 report in PDF can be found here.)
Now let’s turn to Apple’s most recent quarter. Smartphones constituted 40% of the company’s revenue:
When we add up the numbers, we see that the iPhone = Mac + iPods. And this rough calculation “misunderestimates” the weight of the iPhone OS. In the more mature iPod category, the iPod Touch (the iPhone without a phone) grew by 63% year-to-year according to Apple COO Tim Cook in the most recent earnings conference call. (Full Q2 2010 SEC filing available here.)
Subtract an estimated $180 for manufacturing cost and another 12% for Operating Expenses…
..and we get 58% Operating Income for iPhones.
I realize I’m taking a bit of arithmetic license—I’m assuming Operating Expenses are uniform for all product categories, and so on. But the essence remains: Apple makes $3B of profit from its iPhone while HP takes in a mere $500M on its PCs—that’s a 6x difference. The Center of Money has shifted.
(As an aside: If we divide iPhone revenue by the number of units, we arrive at a $622 for each device. Accounting connoisseurs can search for “Retrospective Adoption of New Accounting Principles” in the SEC filing and decide for themselves how much iPhone revenue is accounted for at the time of sale, and how much is kept in reserve and parceled out in 24 monthly installments)
The Curve
HP’s low margins are a symptom of the mature PC sector. The personal computer has reached the S-Curve’s shoulder while very personal computers are still at the S-Curve’s knee, poised for the type of growth the PC has enjoyed over the past 30 years:
When we stare at the curve and consider that steep upward slope, when we consider what it will take to keep the ball rolling uphill, our thoughts turn to software platforms and operating systems. Is it a good idea to use a mature OS in this new genre? Will the layers upon layers of software silt that have accumulated over decades provide the proper environment for the growth of this new species? Until now, OS makers had to struggle to stay compatible with existing applications as they piled on additional modern features. Microsoft and Apple were prisoners of the past. But with the smartphone… Free at last! The smaller size provides an escape from backwards (and that is the right word) compatibility.
The smartphone isn’t just a new genre, it’s nothing less than a reboot of personal computing.
Google agrees. The very successful Android OS has been adopted by a rapidly growing number of handset makers. Recent AdMob statistics place Android ahead of the iPhone in US Web traffic. The cynics may disagree, rebutting with contrary Comscore stats and the supercilious observation that AdMob is being acquired by Google…but it doesn’t really matter. Android is ascending, and will soon show up in tablets (unless its close relative, Chrome OS, ends up as the chosen engine).
Google and Apple have seen—and have comprehended—the same opportunity. They’ve jumped on the next wave of very personal computing, in two form factors…or more…let’s see what happens with TVs.
(I’m not ignoring RIM, the maker of the very good and very successful Blackberry. It’s still the #1 smartphone in the US market, but it’s not apparent that they see what Google and Apple see. RIM seems to want to stay focused on what they do well. I’ll look more closely at RIM in a future note.)
The Objections
Realists will object that the new devices aren’t as capable, as powerful, or as useful as traditional PCs. Yes…for now. We always hear this objection when a new genre emerges. What, minicomputers? They can’t do what our mainframes do. Microcomputers? You must be joking. Look at how puny they are, they don’t even have a real operating system. The interloper does less, but it also costs less—sometimes much less. It’s lighter on the wallet, and it’s also lighter on the mind, easier to live with. The incumbent fights by adding features that reinforce its dominant status, but by moving upwards it makes room for the new device which, over time, gains more power and acceptance, and firmly establishes itself.
The upstart doesn’t signal the end of the previous generation. We still have mainframes, and we’ll have PCs for a long time. But give it time and, as stated at the beginning of this note, the Center of Money will shift as customers become more comfortable with the new, lighter, sexier model, as the nascent devices gain muscle and polish. This is the future Google and Apple have in mind for their Android/Chrome and iPhone platforms.
(If you’re interested in a more in-depth discussion of Google’s Android, take a look at Andreas Constantinou’s blog. Especially “Wintel future for mobile operators” and “Is Android evil?” The comments are worth your while as well. Or see Dr. Constantinou’s meaty 65-slide deck surveying “Mobile Megatrends”. One take-away: Google wants carriers to be mere bit pipes, wireless ISPs and nothing more. They want to drive the price of smartphones to less than $100 in order to take the carrier out of the subsidy business and, as a result, loosen the carrier’s control over handsets. Free, again, at last.)
The Surprise
As I was researching this note, something happened: HP jumped back into the smartphone game. The premier PC company announced that it was buying Palm for $1.2B. Their own smartphone platform, the iPaq line, has been losing ground. (See the recent NY Times article, H.P., Tech Powerhouse, Stumbles in Smartphones which points out iPaq’s “steady slide into irrelevance.”) Despite Palm’s obvious woes, its WebOS isn’t one of them—au contraire, the software platform was universally praised. So, here we go, let’s write a check and get ourselves a good engine for the new race.
In a previous MondayNote, I wrote that no one would buy Palm.
I was wrong. Perhaps I should stick to predicting the past. My mistake stings even more as I wake up and realize I failed to pick up a clue lying in plain sight: Todd Bradley, the senior exec running HP’s PC business, used to be Palm’s CEO. In private conversations, he was too disciplined to be critical of Palm (even after he left) but…from marketing to system software, he exhibited an impressive command of the company’s issues. Ah well…
Acquisitions are difficult affairs that often fail for cultural reasons, and the HP/Palm deal (Palm CEO Jon Rubenstein hails it as a merger) has been questioned here and here. But Todd Bradley’s unique insights, supported by HP’s technical, financial, and market access resources, could combine to prove the skeptics wrong.
And, there’s more…
Right after the HP/Palm announcement, we heard that Microsoft killed its Courier tablet project, quickly followed by news that HP cancelled its own Slate, initially touted, by Microsoft and others, as an “iPad killer”. HP’s Slate was to run a keyboard-less version of Windows 7.
The Center
Apple, Google, and now HP have seen the past and the future: The PC business is mature and graying; the growth is with the new very personal computers. Relying on Microsoft (or even Google, unless you’re Google) for the operating system puts you in a fast race to the bottom, to meager margins, to having key decisions for your business made in Redmond or Mountain View.
The Center of Money has definitely shifted.
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Spot on. Here’s another insight I’ve been thinking about. The Enterprise. Windows Mobile 6.x is dying. Microsoft is shifting everything into Windows Phone 7 which is consumer focused. The Enterprise is left unserved. HP, until the other day was totally dependent on Microsoft. Now – not so much. Arguably they now have a better OS than any competitor – they can focus entirely on the Enterprise without fighting it out in the consumer market. They got patents, mature OS, teams of engineers, and carrier relationships. Combine that with their infrastructure and it’s a huge win.
I’m bullish on HP too. They make one of the best hardware (along with Sony) and they obviously want a share of the juicy mobile web market. HP hardware + palm software = win.
Nice application of concepts that I first encountered in Christensen’s 1997 The Innovator’s Dilemma, and have been discussed widely in other contexts (e.g.,, a paper on Schumpeterian Diseconomies presented at last year’s American Economics Assn meetings).
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Following up on notions in that latter paper (which goes at length into how IBM almost made a successful move to PCs), Apple now has a monstrous challenge in keeping their very successful PC and iPod businesses humming, while facing substantially different challenges of time-to-market, entrance of deep-pocketed competitors such as HP, and adopting a “good enough for phones” mindset that doesn’t work at all on the desktop. (That’s arguably the heart of Adobe’s challenge to get Flash on ANY smartphone, at least until a good set of smartphones have 1GHz processors and 1GB or RAM, likely by the end of next year.)
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Jobs has responded by goosing up technology (PA Semi; Intrinsity; Lala) in a way that seems new; by allowing substantial forks in OSX to move changes quickly for iPad and iPhone; by risking burnt bridges with Adobe, a key supporter of its Mac business.
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Fascinating to watch. Thanks for the ringside perspective.
>>>We always hear this objection when a new genre emerges. What, minicomputers? They can’t do what our mainframes do. Microcomputers? You must be joking. Look at how puny they are, they don’t even have a real operating system.
In general, yes. But smartphones have wee screens. I guess this is overcome by apps being a front-end for data socked away on the Net.
But then there’s the iPad. And I think that’s why HP wanted webOS. It’s not just smartphones, it’s tablets (OK, HP calls theirs Slate — good for them).
I’m happy HP bought Palm. I thought Asus should have, but HP is the best.
It’s been a long time coming. But good that you see the light too
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Mobile is the 7th mass media, and it is only the beginning
Mike Cane said, “ Look at how puny they are, they don’t even have a real operating system.”
Indeed. And look at the chart on Wikipedia’s “Disruptive Technology” page, too. Smartphones serve users who don’t get internet service— whether because they were on the go, could not afford/justify the PC/DSL/cable cost, or didn’t see the benefit. These users now have SMS, music, online friends and more.
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Google thinks that by commoditizing the phones, they can drive the carriers into the business of peddling bits across in a pure internet experience; Apple believes that by offering a unique first-class experience, they can drive the phones into the business of peddling bits to iUsers. I believe both firms will have to adopt some of the other’s business strategy.
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I personally see problems with both: if 50 different Android phones ship this year, no carrier has incentive to push any of them, nor promote them. They’ll see it as effective as Palm’s failed effort to differentiate themselves on Sprint and Verizon. And Apple, although saying they’ll cut prices to keep others from undercutting them, is up for a major shift in margins if they do so, and still, they’re only on AT&T.
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Apple may succeed if they go wide with all 4 major US carriers and a host of others; I presume the PA Semi acquisition is to help shave costs and the control of the programming environment could even allow them to make a shift to a non-ARM chip, if the licensing costs there were relevant. (Anybody here know?)
We are still talking about the mother of all business disruptions for Apple. RIM has the niche Blackberry business marketplace, and much like Apple spent years in the wilderness, losing share and capabilities,until Jobs came back and shook things up, perhaps— just maybe— they can have a second act, too. Microsoft, probably HP/Palm and Moto are already out of the game. Harder for me to read Nokia and Sony/Ericsson; my guess is they’ll duke it out with the rest of the dumbphones.
This is for the US market; Europe and even more so Asia, present an even greater challenge for Apple to go wide and deep simultaneously. It’ll be interesting to see new partner announcements there.
–Mike Cane said, “ Look at how puny they are, they don’t even have a real operating system.”
No, I didn’t say that, I was quoting, but the damned Comment box edited out the greater-than signs I put in there to indicate that.
Great post! I concur with you on the above. It’s certainly the bottom of the first inning in this new shift towards personal personal computing.
Apple’s numbers today validate the consumer experience and now expectation has been validated. The iPad is a sign that the consumers (users) have voted with their checkbooks.
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2010/05/03/death-of-the-netbook-apple-sells-1-million-ipads-30-estimated-to-be-3g-new-user-experience-very-compelling/
That’s my angle and I’m sticking to it
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All I can say is that I am glad, as an Apple investor that they have such a big lead here. It looks to me like the closest rival, Android, is several years behind in polish and usefulness– and not likely to catch up, because the target is moving. When Apple’s exclusivity deal with ATT is gone, Android will be gone, as well.
Its only a matter of time before we drop “mobile” and just call it computing.
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What business disruption for Apple? Its iphone margins are high because they are capitalists and do not give money away. They offered a $99 phone and on one cared. Carriers need a high contract price to support network growth. Apple’s margins are almost accidental.
Meanwhile Apple’s per unit costs on a smartphone will be as low as anyone’s. While they have to keep engineering the OS, per unit cost is zero. No one buys more flash memory. Component wise its largely the same old ipod business.
And because Apple is pulling those margins down to the bottom line, it is not dependent on them. As much as Apple has dazzled Wall Street, it is not their priority. Apple will always charge a premium, but never so much as to be a big issue for most buyers. The model is the ipod business, not the mac business.
HP might do quite well going after the Enterprise in this space. But good luck to the handset makers who think they’re going to commoditize and undercut Apple. If it was tough to do with a music player that simply played back industry standard content, it’s going to be tougher with a software platform.
Apple can lose this race, but the race is definitely theirs to lose. With the successful debut of the iPad it’s almost as if they’ve already lapped Android.
Thanks for a fascinating article, an excellent perspective. I remember the Compaq/HP/Ipaq’s back in 2002 they were really cool looking. Before that I was testing a HP Journada for my then boss – running windows CE – using a Nokia 2.0 Data Card, or my 6230i phone’s modem via infrared. The whole experience put me off Internet browsing on my phone – 7 years later – I still have my nokia but when checked out the Internet on the Iphone – I had to have it, its awesome – can’t wait to see how this all pans out in the next couple of months/years.
I look forward to reading your notes on RIM in the future.
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i dont understand why so many of you seem to think apple is in cruise control. Android will attract more developers once it gets a bit more distribution (can’t wait to buy one for my provider, Sprint). Look at the nexus one, its ALREADY THERE with the iphone. And they have been developing ChromeOS from the ground up for years. Its silly to say that Android has already lost b/c they entered late…to say that is to spit in the face of the last 10 years of Google domination (were they the first search engine? what about the first email service? they have proved over and over again they can take an existing market and turn it on its head, why can’t they do it again w/Android and/or ChromeOS?). Anyway, great article, very insightful
HP buys Palm because it had no other option in phones or tablets. But coming (back) to these markets after duelling Dell to the bottom on price for years is not the desired pedigree back-story for selling future phones or tablets at high margins. If you are a bottom dweller on price or quality, your credibility as a high price vendor is undermined. Palm had a long respected history in PDAs and PDA-phones. It could not compete, even with the rejuvenating new WebOS. Why would HP succeed where Palm failed? HP threw money to get their Slate announced earlier than the iPad. They sold none – choosing to withdraw without a fight. I suspect they will produce a goodish tablet too, Jean-Louis, but so will Google’s licensees including HTC who know how to do ‘Incredible’ things, no? Google will produce a new tablet platform with zero OS cost and it will fragment because all the OS-less manufacturers will flock to it and they will race each other where? Ah yes, to the bottom … again. They have no choice. The same for Dell.
For HP, there is no easy way to compete with a free OS competitor, or with Apple, while also hoping to amortise the cost of buying Palm + the initial R&D to use WebOS on their own phone + the R&D to get WebOS to run a tablet + the promo costs of helping the world to forget that WebOS was a horse that lost its race under its previous colours etc etc. Can we imagine that either Google licensees, or HP can aspire to pricing levels that actually support a level oxygen that can sustain a worthwhile profit? We will be at iPhone/iPad OS 5 or 6 by the time they are truly ready to match iPhone OS3.
This is so tragic, it’s not funny; and yet neither Google nor HP can afford not to try to compete for this space. It is the future computing and comms marketplace. By the time they are ready, Apple’s current top smartphone feature standards will be handed down to a second level iPhone that is offered free, just to reduce the oxygen level to 1% or less for competitors. The top end iPhone will continue to serve the 100s of millions of us willing to pay for the best. Apple will continue to be bathed in oxygen.
In my view, the only thing that sink this vision of the future is the arrival of some new, new thing that disrupts everything all over again. But then Jean-Louis, where is that disruptive influence likely to come from, based on recent history?
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I’m seeing movement to the “VPC” or smartphones on the site that I run. More and more people are accessing Internet forums and news sites using smartphones and that will continue to rise as people ditch their land lines and work more in remote or mobile offices.
We are watching the entire personal and home computing market shift from the PC to the phone, the tablet, and the TV. My wife’s computer is getting long in the tooth, and she doesn’t want a new powerbook, she wants an iPad. Most of what we use computers for in the home – web surfing, mail, viewing pictures, social networks, looking up vendors, music, video entertainment – all of these applications are becoming easier and faster to use on a phone, tablet, and more compelling on the largest computer screen in the home – the HD TV. All of these devices are cheap to buy, faster to boot, and easier to use than a computer. So now computers with keyboard are relegated to writing blog entries, typing papers, paying bills – work related functions. The new divide becomes the PC in the office – and other platforms in the home.
We are working on new music entertainment and social apps for the Google TV. The driver for internet enabled TVs empowered by the tablet and keyboard, will be social interaction around media.
Compelling apps are what drive the need and desire for these devices, and Apple owns a monopoly at least for a short period in these markets with the iPhone platform.
I’m bullish on HP too. They make one of the best hardware (along with Sony) and they obviously want a share of the juicy mobile web market. HP hardware + palm software = win.
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