If either of you had paid attention to the article, the previous Windows tablets were exempted from the class as they used a desktop OS and not a mobile one. Even so, the fact that the media tablets took off the way they did simply proves that the desktop OS does not belong on a tablet device.
Logic and truth aside, 'down' does not necessarily mean 'out'. Apple could lose a lot of market share and still come out on top this year. The quality of the competion--combined with the pricing--will show how things stabilize in the future. It took Apple three years to stabilize the iPod market at 70%, the iPhone still hasn't stabilized and quite honestly Android is still too volatile to let it. I give Android at least one more year on the market before we'll have an idea of where things will settle on smart phones. 'Media Tablets' will probably take just as long to stabilize.
Dropping, yes. Quickly? we'll just have to see. When you figure that Apple sold 4.5 million iPads during the holiday quarter while the Samsung Galaxy Tab sold 1.5 million during the same period shows Apple at just short of 70% for the last quarter; the Android tabs from Dell and elsewhere barely made a dent. This is also during a quarter that a lot of pundits said would hurt iPad's sales due to the pending announcement of the second version. That said, I can't see how you say less than 90% for the year is even close to sad. Take away that last quarter, and the number would have been far closer to 99%.
Completely irrelevant. Those "people" also have no use for any tablet, prefering laptops. (see Winni's inevitable hatred above) I would hazard a guess that these people are less than 1% of tablet owners, and always will be.
