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Apple's Share of Worldwide Tablet Shipments Slips to 43.6% in 4Q 2012
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No, a 260% increase in shipments. A slight difference. What apple ships, they sell whereas what Samsung ships does not necessarily "sell" to the consumer.
Remind me--what exactly did Samsung do to innovate with the Galaxy Tab? Creating products does not mean you innovated. I could make a cell phone in my garage. It doesn't mean I innovated one, it means I put one together.
I couldn't agree with this more. You would be amazed at the excess inventory of handsets and tablets that Best Buy, carriers, and other national retailers have on a quarterly basis.
It occurs to me that they keep skipping over that salient fact that the tablet computing MARKET is growing, and growing rapidly. So even a slightly smaller piece of a rapidly growing market, still represents real growth for Apple and everyone else involved. A tick down in market share is NOT a sign of Apple's inevitable decline. It just indicates the entry of other players into a market that prior to the release of the iPad, barely existed.
Market share is not everything. No doom for any of the players here. Even Microsoft should survive as long as they keep selling Office. And apple, outside of the release of the iPad Mini, doesn't really care to compete at the bottom, where lot of the new players entered the market, they are more than happy to concede that painfully low-margin (or no margin, hellooooooo Kindle ) space.
Market share is not everything. No doom for any of the players here. Even Microsoft should survive as long as they keep selling Office. And apple, outside of the release of the iPad Mini, doesn't really care to compete at the bottom, where lot of the new players entered the market, they are more than happy to concede that painfully low-margin (or no margin, hellooooooo Kindle ) space.
Yeah -- really none of this is surprising. Every tablet maker has copied the major features of the iPad, and now Apple has to do something to differentiate themselves from the pack.
With the way Samsung pushes clone/copycat technology to market, Apple can't afford to sit on a design or OS feature set as long as they could in previous product cycles.
With the way Samsung pushes clone/copycat technology to market, Apple can't afford to sit on a design or OS feature set as long as they could in previous product cycles.
I'd like to see whatever 'commission' on Wall Street require for investors end units 'sold' to customers vs 'shipped'...this shipped vs sold is just too deceiving.
They can still report 'shipped' all they want...but they must also report 'sold' to consumer also.
Shipped is such a deceiving metric...look no further then the HP Touchpad. 750K-Million shipped...20K sold before the firesale.
Not necessarily. Remember, they were entering a crowded market with the iPad mini, and they had supply constraints. What's surprising is how long it took for Android tablets to gain traction. It's been 3 years since the iPad came out, and unlike with the iPhone, Android was already ready.
The reason why Samsungs market share is this high is because they are GIVING AWAY A FREE SAMSUNG TABLET with their very popular LED TVs. And they've been doing so since summer 2012.
Do people talking about "shipped and not sold" that can be quarter after quarter increasing witthout being sold?
P.S. Apple also report shipped, not sold
P.S. Apple also report shipped, not sold
This must be mostly outside of the US, because I rarely see a non-iPad in the wild. I have dozens of friends with tablets, and I would say maybe 3-4 have non-iPads. I have a hard time believing these numbers, but certainly in the US, it's far higher than 43.6%.
Did you notice that this are worldwide tablet shipments? What you see or not see is, even if you travel around a lot, worthless. (If you travel around a lot it would still only be anecdotal evidence, thus still worthless.)
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More, worthless, anecdotal evidence.
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Even if we assume Apple and Samsung sold every unit quoted in the article as "Shipped", Apple sold/shipped 22.9M units to Samsung's 7.9M units. People sure did vote with their money.
Oh, by the way, we have 2 Samsung tabs in our family. One was given to us free with my son's cell phone contract. The other was given to us free by our cable company for having our cable/internet/land line service with them. The 2 iPads in the household were both paid for by us. 'Cause we wanted them.
Yes, companies can be deceptive with these numbers, but the problem is that in a channel model when you ship to a partner who sells to the end user (or perhaps first to a distributor who then sells to a retailer who then sells to an end user), unless you've stipulated they report to you their sales figures (that's not something they are always willing to do, because it's corporate sales data, and sometimes they won't know because they ship it to retailers who don't necessarily report data back to them) you might not have any idea what "sell through" is, but only what "sell in" is (sold vs. shipped). And then there are those companies who report no sales unit figures and these poor analysts are supposed to extrapolate from a lot of other data they must obtain and analyse separately, just so we can all discuss who has the biggest share of the pie.
But we don't know the iPad Mini sales numbers, do we? I don't think they commented on that in their earnings call. But I'd assume that the majority of sales are from the iPad Mini.
That said, as for people people saying that only profits count, not marketshare, Apple's profit margins are known to be falling, and we saw this in their earnings report. Profits are still increasing, but not at the alarming rate of the last 1-2 years.
My post above: In our family we have 2 iPads, and 2 Samsungs. The former we bought and use and might be seen "in the wild." The latter we were give as part of a cell contract and cable/internet/phone contract and rarely use. One of the kids uses a Samsung for Netflix and Angry Birds. Thats it. They never leave the house.
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Wow, seriously dude? In your signature, you ask, "Why waste your time posting how much you hate Apple products?" I'd ask you why you waste your time posting this partisan nonsense? Last I looked, Apple was dominating profits in all markets they play in. Android may have more market share but they are hardly dominating Apple.
I think it needs to be a requirement that the end channels report back to the distributor....
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That 'shipped units returned' be reported.