Thus, WP7 and Windows 8 Tablets, etc. Lateness upon lateness upon lateness.
Sometimes its good to be late. It allows for time to re-think.
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Apple fans often use this tactic of claiming that an Apple product sells more than any particular model of a competing product.
This is pure horse-hockey - because the fact that other manufacturers offer more options and choice is not a bad thing.
Samsung sells a lot more smartphones than Apple - in a fair number of different models. If no particular Samsung model sells more more than the best selling Iphone model - it means nothing. Samsung is still outselling Apple.
It reminds me of ancient history - when Apple was selling the space-egg Imacs in the toxic-colored plastic. Apple fans insisted on combining the sales figures for the SKUs for the different colors - yet not combining the HP Pavilion XXX with 256MiB RAM and a 233 MHz CPU with the HP Pavilion XXY with 512 MiB and 266 MHz (and the Pavilion XXZ and Pavilion XX* and other variants of the same system...).
HP was selling far more Pavilion XX* systems than Apple, but Apple fans claimed that Imacs were the most popular systems by this trick.
Some things don't change....
We will see it repeat very soon, i am sure. In fact, aren't we already seeing it? Take the iPad2 for example, how is that one model? And, when we're fed data about iPad sales, isn't that iPad 1 and 2? Same goes for their computer line. For example, even if they were splitting MBA numbers up in screen sizes (which i doubt) they still have different models within each chassi.
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If I had IBM I'd sue the pants off Apple. Shoot, Apple wasn't even the first to coin the word "pad" referring to a tablet. IBM was. ThinkPads were originally supposed to be tablets (see this model).
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:700T
They ended up using the name for computers as well, not to mention.. tablets!
The rounded off rectangle with a dark bezel was IBM's thing also.
http://paulsdeals.com/Computer/comppics/ibm-monitor.jpg
(Not to mention Casio and others actually used black LCD bezels.. most gameboys had them... hrmm!!!
Weiser called them Pads over at PARC in the late 80's, or at very least in early 90's.
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Then provide them. So far you are the one making stuff up.
People want iPhone or iOS they only have 3 choices (3GS, 4 and 4S)
You want Android you have a long list.
You want WP7 again long list of phone
BB - wide list.
Increase models do increase the sales but not by much more it just splits the market and a smaller share for each one.
So yes samsung would more than likely still have more sales than Apple. Sales of each iPhone would go down and at most only a minor increase in total sales.
More models just means that the person buying the phone has to compromise less to get what they want.
Actually, you have more choice than that.
3GS 8Gb
4 8Gb
4S 16Gb 32Gb 64Gb
For some reason though, that is supposed to read as "one", or at best "three".
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Comparing the iPads to a CRT moitor are quite different designs. CRT's are not flat, and the bezel is also flush with the screen.
Ok, looks like you were talking about something different, my mistake.

Xerox PARC Pad, ç:a 1991. His examples were bad, but what he said was still true.