Good lord! DO you need to be spoon fed everything? Every statement you have made is very short sighted. You make assumptions that only 1 person per household will be buying an iPad. Businesses are buying them, people are buying more than 1, people are replacing their computers with them, people are buying them for their kids. Why is it so hard to believe that people are treating these things like iPods? I bought 1 for my wife last year and after seeing my 4 and 3 year old sons fight over it I bought another. Tomorrow I will buy an iPad 2...that's 3 in my house alone in case you lost count(do you need a link for that as well?) I may not be a case model, but I know that there are many more families like mine. How manyt households have more than 1 computer? Remember, there was a time when people thought that there would never be a TV in every household...now there are 2.24 in every one.
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Apple's 4Q 2010 Tablet Market Share Pegged at 73%
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Good lord! DO you need to be spoon fed everything? Every statement you have made is very short sighted. You make assumptions that only 1 person per household will be buying an iPad. Businesses are buying them, people are buying more than 1, people are replacing their computers with them, people are buying them for their kids. Why is it so hard to believe that people are treating these things like iPods? I bought 1 for my wife last year and after seeing my 4 and 3 year old sons fight over it I bought another. Tomorrow I will buy an iPad 2...that's 3 in my house alone in case you lost count(do you need a link for that as well?) I may not be a case model, but I know that there are many more families like mine. How manyt households have more than 1 computer? Remember, there was a time when people thought that there would never be a TV in every household...now there are 2.24 in every one.
The device isn't worth anything if devs won't make apps for it. The machines sitting on shelves collecting dust do nothing for app devs or for any chance of making money on future iterations of their machines...
because iPads are designed as personal devices and you can't put multiple users on one? I wouldn't want to have to share my iPad.
Why does anyone need a TV or a computer? Why does anyone need a newspaper? Why do people need 4 bedrooms and central air? Or a car, let alone 2?
All we need is food, clothing and shelter...
Hear Hear. Also, "abuse" can be interpreted various ways...personally, I think all the abusive-monopoly name calling towards MSFT was unfair. IMHO, if it's not a commodity good...monopolies are not the horrible market crashing, consumer raping bru ha ha regulatory commissions make it to be.
Do you have any links to your assumptions that there are only 1.2 billion people that live in households of 7.5k per year?
Or that there are only 3.5 persons per household?
Or that there is only one iPad per said household?
Or, that businesses, government and education aren't taking any iPads?
This might interest you:
Worldwide PC sales in 2010 = 301 million. About half way down...
So, by your numbers, 88% of households with more than 7.5k per year bought computers just last year alone!?
Yes they were.
They were making PC manufacturers NOT include Netscape by default.
They were leveraging their monopoly to create a barrier to entry for competitors. Classic monopoly abuse.
MS abused their Windows monopoly by bundling IE. Abuse of their dominant position with Windows. There was other much more serious stuff as well over the last 5-10 years with MS in the EU. Studied those cases in EU Competition lectures- so dull!
73% little lower than I expected. I don't see iPads that often, but I've seen maybe one non-iPad tablet in the last year. I'm sure we will see an iPhone like situation where Android and Apple get a healthy chunk of the market each. Good for consumers!
No, but I do ask people to reference what they are claiming. I could easily reference all of my statements, which is why my calculations seem short-sighted. I don't acknowledge anecdotal evidence while most others do.
Price point is the biggest reason. Disposable income/available credit has significantly decreased within the US since 2008. Let's assume that an average iPad household makes 100k in the US (average US household income is about 50k). After deductions from the income of the iPad household, that's roughly 75k or so. 3 iPads would run between 1000 and 1500 USD without any services. 1500 USD out of 75k is a substantial investment.
The TV serves a fundamental purpose that the iPad doesn't. And, the TV didn't have anything to replace when it was introduced (except radio and newspaper). One would easily argue that TV was an extreme enhancement over newspaper/radio because it provided moving pictures. The iPad doesn't usurp the TV, iPod, iPhone or PC. It does provide additional convenience, but it's nowhere near the same category as the introduction of the TV, therefore, you analogy is quite poor.
If you disagree with my last statement, that the iPad doesn't replace anything, name something that you've sold/bartered/donated since you've purchased 3 iPads?
To avoid having to wait to use one.
Obviously, you don't have one, or you would understand.
It's by choice that I don't have one. I have these really neat things called books, newspapers and friends.
Need? In the existential sense of the word nobody needs one iPad let alone two or more. Since we're talking simply about the people who were born in the right part of the world I'll assume you're using the word "need" to mean want and have the means to buy. With that in mind: why do some households need more than one care, more than one computer, one television, one phone?
Not really. There are other tablet vendors offering products and Apple isn't locking them out in any way. If Motorola or Samsung wanted to cut their tablet's prices to sell more product, they could and consumers might consider buying those devices. Apple's market share has more to do with consumer choice than a monopoly.
The whole discussion about market percentage is at best undecided.
As we all know when you ask accountants what 1 + 1 is they will ask what do you want it to be?
So, I expect the same depending on who you talk to:
Sales and Marketing have different numbers from sales channels
Manufacturing numbers are different from other numbers etc.etc.
You can even change time sections to take your "SALES" snap shot and make numbers look better.
Fact is for now the ipad is dominating the market it defined.
If I had a hot product I couldn't care less about market percentage. All I would want is sell millions of it and how much I'd make in profit.
Those are the important numbers .
The rest is fluff for people who are into it!
That includes stock manipulators.
What I have not seen yet is people claiming that when you hold the new ipads at a 12.8 degree angle to the left and point it Eastwards and shine the screen through a green waterglass it shows a 666 partially, which proves beyond a doubt that Apple is into devil worship.
No. It becomes illegal when the free market complains, files suit with the FTC and wins. Abuse has nothing to do with it. The mere "threat" of a company having too much power is enough. (e.g., Apple buying up the component market so nobody else can get parts).
Should any of Apple's products be deemed necessary (LOL!), I can see them being split up into smaller divisions. Bill Gates just may have the last laugh.
I can. When you add in the retailers and companies that will put one of these in every employee's hands. (Or so they say).
I've canceled my newspaper subscription, sold my Nintendo Wii, gave away a portable DVD player, donated a computer, canceled the premium cable package and am debating canceling cable altogether, gave away my kids flashcards, got rid of the TV in my bedroom...there's probably more but that's a start.
Actually, I would consider them to provide the same fundamental purposes. Entertainment and information.
Amazing how you disprove your own statement in the parenthetical.
I replaced my mother's desktop PC with an iPad.
May I suggest that if you attempt to make a living out of your analysis, don't quit your dayjob. A even better suggestion is that you spend your time with your friends rather than wasting it on analyzing products you don't own and don't understand.
How dare they give away a free piece of their software in their own OS, and then give me the choice of using it.
So now iPad has a monopoly on the tablet market, they're clearly abusing it by bundling Safari with the iPad. Should they be stopped? Sounds like it to me.
Why should they bundle a competitors browser with their OS? People have a choice to install another browser on their computer if they so wish.
That's why I told him to do his own research. How sad is it that he now needs you to define the word "use", as if its too hard to click the link and read it.
You could show him this link about the University of Melbourne's Trinity College pilot program. These programs are happening all over the place in academia, business, and government.
http://delimiter.com.au/2011/03/07/trinity-ipad-trial-recommends-wider-rollout/
http://ipadpilot.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/trinity-college-ipad-pilot-report-available/
Just watch iPad year one. Skip past the giddy hype, and just note the company names and what they're saying they're doing. The leaders of Salesforce, Chicago Public Schools, Beth Israel Deaconess, Children's Hospital Boston.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Apple#p/u/6/HpiVeC1Z3yI
I already know clients of ours that are snapping it up. I held a GotoMeeting session with one on my wife's iPad a few months ago. It's impressive.
~ CB