I really thought it would be higher than 61%. What else has sold in any real numbers?
But since it meets yours it's ok, right?
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Apple Tops Worldwide Mobile PC Shipments in Q2 2011 with iPad Included
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I really thought it would be higher than 61%. What else has sold in any real numbers?
But since it meets yours it's ok, right?
DEAD ON
Seriously this table was made by a biased group/person
iPad, iPhone,iPod Touch all run the same mobile operating system, it boggles me why they are not included.
Or just remove iPad % and include REAL mobile PCs.
Despite the OS being the same, the iPad is really more geared as a Tablet PC. Therefore, they should be inclined to include the iPad but not the iPod Touch or iPhone.
But since it meets yours it's ok, right?
This discussion thing works better if you post what you think instead of making up what I think.
I said no such thing. I said that this report has nothing to do with the semantics of whether or not an iPad is a PC. What matters is whether or not it competes for customers in the mobile PC market.
Regardless, the iPad meets most common definitions of a personal computer. So do lots of things that don't compete in the PC market. If you want to have a semantics discussion about whether or not an iPad meets your personal definition of a PC, you'll have to start by telling everyone what that definition is.
Ummm, Catch-22. They have to mention it because some people
think it shouldn't be included.----------
Which in fact what is happening. Most of the managers in my company have chucked their PCs in favor of iPads.
(and to head off the inevitable sniping: this is a Fortune 500 tech company, all the managers I'm talking about are ex-engineers, and the company was once an exclusively Windows shop)
Pretty much no one. Apple just has 61% of shipped tablets, but I'd venture that they're around 90%+ in actual install base.
Yeah... that 61% is a projection of shipments by the end of the year... not sell-through to consumers.
Looking at what happened with the TouchPad... most of its stock sitting in the store.
I'm sure the Android manufacturers will have better sell-through... but we know Apple sells every iPad they make. And they sold over 100,000 every day last quarter.
Just wait until Christmas.
I seriously doubt that 2 out of 5 tablets in people's hands will be non-iPads by the end of the year.
But... the other manufacturers are shy with their sell-through numbers... so we'll likely never know what was actually sold to consumers.
I would think it has to be about 90% too. There hasn't been another tablet that even had a minuscule amount of success.
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[/COLOR]Ummm, Catch-22. They have to mention it because some people
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Which in fact what is happening. Most of the managers in my company have chucked their PCs in favor of iPads.
(and to head off the inevitable sniping: this is a Fortune 500 tech company, all the managers I'm talking about are ex-engineers, and the company was once an exclusively Windows shop)
That didn't come through well, that was what I was trying to point out. I have family/friends that work for companies that now giving people a choice between an iPad or laptop...
I agree, looking at ALL computing deviceseven pocket oneswould be interesting too. But so is the comparison made here. You can compare anything you wanttheres more than one way to look at any industry. It may be interesting to look at one subset or another.
in this case, is there a reason to look at PCs that are not pocket-sized? Does leaving out iPhone/iPod make for an interesting and useful comparison? Yes, I think theres a very good reason: the pocket-sized devices are less likely to be used to replace daily PC activities than a tablet (or larger) device.
I dont know anyone who has given up buying a new PC because of a pocket device (though Im sure it happens occasionally). But as I posted above, that decision is quite reasonable with an iPad. Keep your aging PC, and get an iPad instead of replacing itthats a good choice for many. Keep your aging PC and dont replace it because you have an iPod Touch? Far less likely.
So the iPad competes in, and heavily impacts, the traditional (tower/laptop) PC market in more direct ways (ask HP!) than smartphones and the iPod Touch do. Yes, they overlap as wellbut less so.
No idea of the Android numbers. But it they are anything like the HP numbers, then the percentage of non-Apple tablets actually sold, as opposed to shipped, is about 4% (given the reports from Best Buy of only 10% of HP devices shipped to the retailer actually being sold). No wonder HP is dropping out of the market, in spite of its substantial investment in it (although I must say the market is poorer for the loss). Maybe Apple will buy WebOS from HP, and use it to improve iOS the way the company used NextOS to revolutionize the Mac.
Of course, with retailers giving Samsung Galaxy tabs away for FREE with TV purchases, their market share may increase somewhat. Kind of seems like a desperate move, though, to take such a loss on the hardware just to try to get a toehold in the tablet market.