U.S. Non-iPad Tablet Market Led by TouchPad Fire Sales as iPad's Domination Continues

[AppleScruff1]

Probably few. But they don't need to. I'm starting to see people with their new iPads, and what they find to do with it. It really doesn't matter if Galaxy or Xoom can match or even beat it, people are finding the iPad to offer a solid product that does more than they imagined in a form that is extremely convenient. And then their friends notice. Snowball. Hill.

Most people wouldn't even consider one of the other tablets even if it was equal to or better than the iPad. The iPad is obviously a very solid product and it offers the most for the dollar. The only way another tablet will move at all is if it is half the price of the iPad. IMHO, it's the Apple brand that makes it so. People strongly identify with the company and have complete faith in their products to the point that the only way they will consider an alternative is if it is really cheap.

Look at the car market, even the luxury car market. You can choose from Mercedes, Lexus, Infinity, BMW, etc. All our great products and have models at similar price points. All of these brands are doing well. In the tablet market, it's only Apple.

 

[Mr. Gates]

Wow !

That fire sale really had an impact !


I wouldn't be surprised to see a come back.

Web OS branded differently maybe.

It has potential

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What killed it first was Palm. Then HP yanked it out of the morgue and just did a Weekend at Bernie's thing with it.

Both companies have shown a galactic level of incompetence in general to begin with, so no surprises about what happened.


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I never agree with *LTD* ...

But ,....I have to give it to him here.


Nicely done dude

 

[MightyMac007]

What a huge disparity between #1, which I am assuming is the iPad , and #2 at 17%. Wow.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

We need some stronger competitors to Apple.

Monopoly isn't good for anyone - even us iPod owners.

What Monopoly??? Monopoly is when only one dominates and all others are forbidden to compete:

mo·nop·o·ly/məˈnäpəlē/
Noun:
1) The exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.
2) The exclusive possession, control, or exercise of something.

Nobody is forbidden to compete against Apple. The problem is that so far nobody had the right product, marketing strategy and ecosystem to launch a product capable of competing without being copycats.

 

[BaldiMac]

What a huge disparity between #1, which I am assuming is the iPad , and #2 at 17%. Wow.

It is much, much bigger than that. HP has 17% of the non-iPad tablet market. Assuming Apple sold 10 million iPads in the US in this timeframe, HP was #2 with only 1.8% of the entire US tablet market.

 

[foiden]

I believe the HP sales already would've dropped off by now. Nobody seems to sell it at the $99 prices anymore. Right now, everybody is selling the device at a 3X or more markup, and people just don't want to buy a system that's advertised as dead for more money than certain currently-live systems are selling for. I'm thinking the markup resellers are missing the boat.

 

[vitzr]

I love all this tablet excitement!

Apple owns the tablet space, there's nothing surprising OR exciting about that.

Anyone who thinks this is exciting hasn't been out much. iPads are a dime a dozen and old news. I've yet to enter a Starbucks without seeing the show offs looking up to be sure they're being noticed holding their egos.

It's old hat in this major metro city.

 

[foiden]

Guess you need to come around to my state. The devices of Starbucks tend to favor more into the PC laptop users.

 

[vitzr]

Guess you need to come around to my state. The devices of Starbucks tend to favor more into the PC laptop users.

That makes sense. In California, it's all big ego narcissist's that worshipped Jobs, hence the nauseating tributes. He was their God.

 

[SactoGuy18]

Apple dominates because the iPad--essentially an iPod touch writ large--has access to the gigantic iOS ecosystem, which means plentiful software, plentiful accessories, and people used to using iTunes on a separate computer to copy media files to the iPad and do other updates. And the iPad is WAY more capable than the Amazon Kindle Fire, which is too tied down to Amazon's own online services.