Absolutely love my Air 2. Will be getting a refurb 10.5" Pro in March/April if the new model has Face ID. 
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iPad Remains World's Most Popular Tablet as Apple Outsold Samsung and Amazon Combined Last Year
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And Google/partners can just say "well, Chromebooks are better than tablets anyway..."
(They are better for some Things- trackpad support when using an external keyboard is the only thing I personally would like for coding/text editing).
I think the statement shows your ignorance. The iPhone by itself alone is a status Symbol and has been trending like this for quite some time. It's the one product that if somebody has, it's fairly noticed for what it is because of its notoriety and history. No one cares what iPad or MacBook you have, but which iPhone you have, is an entirely different segment of something being A fashion accessory. Especially given where the iPhone X is currently, its fairly popular for its own reasons aside just from being the latest device.
Apple doesn't ship without getting paid first. Payment for a product constitutes a sale.
LumaFusion is great and worth the money. Plus they’ve been good at regular updates.
As to the iPad Pro, I’m really looking forward to see this years version. I’m curious just how fast the A11X will be and how they’ll do FaceID. Plus WWDC 2018 and possible new features for iPads in iOS 12.
I am still winning there too. Long term shareholders aren't worried about a few weeks of market gyrations. No one has to panic sell when the stocks drops 10%. Happens all the time. I'm buying more like I'm buying more of other fabulous companies that are down big.
No issues with ever buying an iPad and would love using Android, but just recently, I've been having a horrible time trying to get Samsung Tech Support to get a Galaxy Tab E 9.7 shipped off to repair (UNDER WARRANTY) the USB port because it stopped charging. With all the loop holes I have to jump through to get a case created and then have to hit a 2nd layer of support who wants you to buy a new Samsung cable to test with (I have 3 different Samsung cables that work for other Samsung devices).
Just for service support alone, I'll stick with iPads. And then maybe Amazon.
Just for service support alone, I'll stick with iPads. And then maybe Amazon.
Ditto. For phones, I much prefer Android (LG G4 FTW! and only a fraction of the price of many of the top Samsung, Google, and Apple phones!
). I got my iPad Air at half off that I'm most definitely sticking with that. It's still on ios8, so I'll have to decide if I'd want to update when the games I'd like drop ios8.
Also, some workforce have their work documents and presentations in the cloud anyway. I used to carry around my MBP for that purpose but since the iPad Pro 12.9", it's much more convenient, weighs a lot less, and not miss a beat working on important documents, contracts, presentations, etc. It's not a laptop replacement for sure, but an extension of it along with the apps and convenience.
Sorry, but I STILL think headlines like this are misleading.
Yes, without question Apple has sold more tablets, than any other individual tablets, but the manner of the statement is dubious.
It would be like saying Ford make Gas Cars and 10 other brands make Diesel cars.
Then printing the heading, Fords Gas cars outsell rivals.
Or Ford Gas cars are in the lead.
Which is technically true, but it's misleading, as it gives the impressing that they are selling the most in general.
When Ford could only perhaps be selling 2 out of every 10 cars sold.
2 Gas cars to 8 Diesel ones.
This headline COULD SAY; "Apple only selling 1/4 of all the tablets being sold each year"
Which would also be accurate and correct, but would give a very different spin on the headline.
Yes, without question Apple has sold more tablets, than any other individual tablets, but the manner of the statement is dubious.
It would be like saying Ford make Gas Cars and 10 other brands make Diesel cars.
Then printing the heading, Fords Gas cars outsell rivals.
Or Ford Gas cars are in the lead.
Which is technically true, but it's misleading, as it gives the impressing that they are selling the most in general.
When Ford could only perhaps be selling 2 out of every 10 cars sold.
2 Gas cars to 8 Diesel ones.
This headline COULD SAY; "Apple only selling 1/4 of all the tablets being sold each year"
Which would also be accurate and correct, but would give a very different spin on the headline.
In my office (a university campus) the biggest iPad competition actually comes from the Microsoft Surface. The Surface Pro and Surface Book 2 are aimed at both the tablet market and the laptop market as all-in-one devices. Microsoft even has a header on the following page that says, "It's easy to switch from Mac to Surface!" https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface
iPads are still quite popular on our campus, but some faculty and staff who used to use one now use a Surface. Many of my coworkers have a Surface, and I was offered one when it came time to upgrade my old 30-pin third-gen iPad. I requested a 9.7 inch iPad Pro instead. The previous iPad was working great for me as a device to take to meetings, out into the field, etc. so why change? I had also heard some grumblings about the reliability of the Surface. I feel like iOS is my primary platform anyway. I may have a Windows desktop in my office, but I also have an iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. When I'm mobile, iOS just makes more sense for me. Since we use Office 365, I can access pretty much anything I need from the iPad, and for rare cases otherwise I just remote from the iPad into my desktop computer.
iPads are still quite popular on our campus, but some faculty and staff who used to use one now use a Surface. Many of my coworkers have a Surface, and I was offered one when it came time to upgrade my old 30-pin third-gen iPad. I requested a 9.7 inch iPad Pro instead. The previous iPad was working great for me as a device to take to meetings, out into the field, etc. so why change? I had also heard some grumblings about the reliability of the Surface. I feel like iOS is my primary platform anyway. I may have a Windows desktop in my office, but I also have an iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. When I'm mobile, iOS just makes more sense for me. Since we use Office 365, I can access pretty much anything I need from the iPad, and for rare cases otherwise I just remote from the iPad into my desktop computer.
For me it was always an issue of why? Why do I need this device? I bought one but I still never figured out the why. I always reached for either my iPhone or Mac. So I sold the iPad and didn’t have one for years.
Until...I got an iPad Pro and Pencil a few months ago and use it all the time. I love the Pencil. I use GoodNotes and it’s sublime. I pretty much don’t use it for anything else, but I take a lot of notes and constantly find myself jotting things down on scratch paper. I don’t like typing notes. There’s something about writing them. And now with the Pencil I can write, sync my notes to my Mac, convert notes to text, search notes, etc. I love it.
Hardly. The reason there are so many great iPad Apps is because they are selling well, which gives developers a good reason to target the iPad. That benefits all iPad users.
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You’re trying really hard to diminish the fact the iPad dominates.
They are growing because they sell them at a lost for $50 for a device that's about as sophisticated as an off-brand Android phone. They are bought for kids who parents couldn't afford an iPad and are forgotten within the year and tossed in a sock drawer.
iPad growth is limited because the devices are used and are difficult to "kill". I make an app and still get people wondering why we removed support for the original iPad 1 (iOS 5.1.1) recently! The iPad 2 is our third most popular and active device used so far in 2018.
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You can't beat it for $329. I use my Air daily and it is showing its age. I was considering buying a Pro, but now I won't until the OLED model comes out. I may even get the $329 model in the meantime. It is a great consumption device. The iPad is a great product and I have more hand gotten my money's worth out of mine.
I wanted a PixelC but they’re still about $500 used so I bought and iPad for $329 plus a Project re smartcover I’m good to go with a warranty
Are you sure it hasn’t happened? Apple only sell 1 in every 4 tablets and that is declining. 5 years ago, they sold 2 in every 3 tablets.
AMZN probably made less profit on the 4.6M more tablets they sold than Apple made on the extra 1.2M they sold. Amazon almost literally gives their tablets away and rumored to sell them at a loss at times. Just a different strategy.
That said, the Amazon tablets are utter crap.
To my way of thinking, the system that has 75% of the market is the one dominating and that would be Android. And the companies whose growth is almost 30% (Huawei) and almost 40% (Amazon) in a shrinking market would appear to be the ones making the right product at the right price.