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Apple's 4Q 2010 Tablet Market Share Pegged at 73%
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Analysts produce the results required of them. Whoever pays the bills gets the results they want.
So IDC figured it was in their best interest to pretend channel stuffing counted as sales, and thus reported it this way. Then lots of tech sites can read the results without comprehension and trumpet triumphantly Apple's imminent demise.
It's just as not a month goes by without yet another story about how Android has "finally" surpassed Apple in smart phone market share. Amazing how this event happens month after month after month as if it was the first time it ever happened. Simple: just create your analysis in whatever way the client needs.
There is an old saying. "There's book smart and then there is street smart."
How about adding these variables into your equations: One household buys multiple iPads. iPads are sold to the educational, government, sport and medical arenas. That's a lot of iPads you haven't accounted for, as you seem to be under the impression that a single person per one unit household is the only statistic that counts.
You are missing another limitation of your analysis. Businesses are also buying iPads.
I see displays for Galaxy Tab at Costco and there are a lot of them. I believe many shipped to distributors but few have been sold. If they were able to off-load 1 or 2 out of 10 they did well. 
I played with one and it worked pretty well but it is in no way as simple to operate as an iPad nor did it feel as good in the hand.
I played with one and it worked pretty well but it is in no way as simple to operate as an iPad nor did it feel as good in the hand.Exactly. Businesses are actively deploying iPads in the enterprise. That will be a large driver of growth. And those businesses are not going to be deploying Android bc its lack of security.
Maybe the Playbook will eat into Apple's share of enterprise sales if it ever ships.
do you have any numbers for this? i haven't seen a single business in Germany with an iPad, nor anyone running iPhones in house (enterprise). I actually see more BB and Android usage with all the corporations. Granted, I haven't lived in the states in a few years, maybe things have changed.
Well... more figures for you to chew on. Stop assuming each one of these households only have ONE. Also, stop assuming that schools and businesses aren't buying these. iPad is huge in a number of areas.
Please do your own research. This has been widely reported. Some Universities have begun to hand out iPads to all first-time students. Many businesses are purchasing large orders of iPads. Best Buy alone was recently reported to be starting a program. Just watch CNN and count them.
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No, goes to show that you are clueless and keep up your vendetta against Apple and jobs.
Please back up which lies, instead of generalizing.
Never seen an intelligent follow up as an answer from you!
65% of Fortune 100 companies using iPad
https://www.macrumors.com/2010/10/1...n-on-20-34-billion-revenue-best-quarter-ever/
Can you please specify what you mean by "abusing it's position in the market"
and who would be abused in which way?
Best tablet, best price, best experience.
Ouch, I really feel abused!
Your calculations are fatally flawed because you completely ignore enterprise customers as well as education and government.
Why? I'm not trying to prove any numbers. You are. I just pointed out that you did not take businesses into account in your analysis.
so why are you even here then? do you own any Macs? or any apple products? According to your signature thats a negative...
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None. A monopoly position is fine. It's how you conduct yourself while in that position is what matters. And the acts that count as abuse get very specific in this area.
None. A monopoly position is fine. It's how you conduct yourself while in that position is what matters. And the acts that count as abuse get very specific in this area.
why does samsung care once distributors buy from them? they have been paid for. Who cares if verizon or sprint offer 3 for 1 deals of crappy phones? the vendor has already been paid for that product.
the reality is that android has already eaten into apple's share. just like the iphone, their strength is the competition from within android to keep up to date and the options available to the consumer, its a concept apple doesn't readily subscribe. The result in the phone space is apple was surpassed in market share already and doesn't look to be slowing down. consumers want options, apple does not give that too them
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I know as well as you that Apple is one of if not the most important tech company and whatever they do influences others. Also, the community here is enjoyable
And the only Apple product I owned was an iPod second gen. Click wheel with the green and black lcd screen. I'd buy an iPod classic if I have the money laying around
such good devices.We have 2. Bet that throws your calculations. At the airport, I travel a lot for work, I've seen entire families with iPads heading out on vacation.
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If the Analysts are right, then Apple would sell about 36 million iPads in 2011 and with 70%+ market share, that's a huge amount on continued momentum.
Also, it's easy to assume, all the other tablets that are fighting for the 14 million units, not all of them are going to make it. Some will shine and many will fail. It's going to be a tablet bloodbath in 2011 and 2012 as companies fight for position.
Going to be fun and interesting.
If the Analysts are right, then Apple would sell about 36 million iPads in 2011 and with 70%+ market share, that's a huge amount on continued momentum.
Also, it's easy to assume, all the other tablets that are fighting for the 14 million units, not all of them are going to make it. Some will shine and many will fail. It's going to be a tablet bloodbath in 2011 and 2012 as companies fight for position.
Going to be fun and interesting.
lol ... not much of a family vacation.
also, since you mentioned it, why does you household need two? and why would everyone in a family need/want one?
Microsoft werent abusing their IE monopoly, but the EU still dropped on them like a tonne of bricks.