Overall, IDC is predicting shipments of roughly 50 million units for 2011.
Article Link: Apple's 4Q 2010 Tablet Market Share Pegged at 73%
That low? The iPad is like the only real tablet out there.
So 73% doesn't count as a monopoly?
Shipments being the crucial word here.
Market share of "shipments". Not sales. Shipments. This means absolutely nothing.
Many of these companies are hedging their bets that their iterations will sell like Apple's but if we go buy Samsung's coy comments on their actual sales I'd hazard a guess there's a lot of them sitting around unsold.
Shipments being the crucial word here.
Market share of "shipments". Not sales. Shipments. This means absolutely nothing.
Many of these companies are hedging their bets that their iterations will sell like Apple's but if we go buy Samsung's coy comments on their actual sales I'd hazard a guess there's a lot of them sitting around unsold.
It could. Why does that matter?
Only 1.2B people live in households that have more than a $7.5k yearly income (consumer class of people).
Selling, not only shipping, 50M iPads this year plus the 7M from last year would mean the 57M / 1.2B or roughly 5% of people in these households would have one ... or 1 in every 20.
I just don't buy it ... at all.
edit: as an extension, if one considers 3.5 ppl / household that would be 1.2B / 3.5 ppl = 340M households. Therefore, 57M / 340M household or roughly 20% of households would have an iPad ... I think that's EXTREMELY optimistic.
So 73% doesn't count as a monopoly?
They didn't mean 50m iPads... read again.. they estimate 50m tablets sold in 2011 and they predict that Apple should maintain about a 70-80% share.
I think the number is realistic. It's a hot product category and the PC shipment numbers are way over that. So why not? You're over analyzing.
Just wondering when people start talking about Apple abusing it's position in the market. I guess the question is what is the percentage required?
Only 1.2B people live in households that have more than a $7.5k yearly income (consumer class of people).
Selling, not only shipping, 50M iPads this year plus the 7M from last year would mean the 57M / 1.2B or roughly 5% of people in these households would have one ... or 1 in every 20.
I just don't buy it ... at all.
edit: as an extension, if one considers 3.5 ppl / household that would be 1.2B / 3.5 ppl = 340M households. Therefore, 57M / 340M household or roughly 20% of households would have an iPad ... I think that's EXTREMELY optimistic.
So 73% doesn't count as a monopoly?
We know that Apple's share can't remain in the 90's cause others will build competing tablets and people will buy them. But a drop to 73% last quarter? I can't believe that's true. Channel stuffing doesn't count.
I've had hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and I'll tell you what, it's a pretty dismal experience. Samsung should actually be embarrassed for releasing it. The only actual customers for that thing would be Apple-haters or those who are completely clueless.
So, since the Galaxy Tab was the only shipping true competitor last quarter (that Dell thing doesn't count - it's a PDA), what does that really make Apple's share of the market? If you could evaluate actual purchases, I would wager a drop to maybe 91% from 93%.
73% of the market..... Not total households making over 7.5K/year.