Comments on: iPad Market Share Stabilizes as Post-PC Apple Products Surge

By: mango

mango — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:33:41 +0000

it’s not 92%, it’s 92 million sold

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:15:58 +0000

It seems to me that the diagram is misleading as it shows products from Apple, but then all other products from all other companies grouped together. In fairness I would expect it to be broken out to give consumers a real view of market share as per device. Otherwise it is comparing unjustly in MY opinion.

By: chano

chano — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:24:42 +0000

Errrr ….
You might want to recalc the PC wedge at 92%

By: Charles Jade

Charles Jade — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:13:41 +0000

Samsung announced 600,000 Tabs sold shortly after launch last fall, followed by one million in early December, and two million in early January. At the conference call when pressed on whether those numbers were actual sales to consumers, the response was:

“Well, your question was on sell-in and sell-out. As you heard, our sell-in was quite aggressive and this first quarterly result was quite, you know, fourth-quarter unit [figure] was around two million. Then, in terms of sell-out, we also believe it was quite smooth. We believe, as the introduction of new device, it was required to have consumers invest in the device. So therefore, even though sell-out wasn’t as fast as we expected, we still believe sell-out was quite OK.”

Sell-in refers to sales to resellers, and sell-out to consumers. Since the admission that actual sales to consumers were not “as fast as we expected,” Samsung has stopped bragging the Tab, and has been silent on Steve Jobs trash talking at the iPad 2 event. I question whether the Tab actually has the market share its purported to have even now.

By: jbelkin

jbelkin — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:26:05 +0000

Measuring shipped is meaningless.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:54:17 +0000

Already this quarter, I have seen my niece buy a iPhone 4 and 2 sets of mates parents purchase iPads (for traveling around in their campervans as they tour New Zealand).

My mum has her name down for an iPad 2.

All of these individuals have never owned an Apple product before.

We live in New Zealand.

I believe Apple is close to a tipping point.

By: Laughing_Boy48

Laughing_Boy48 — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:25:26 +0000

We’ll see how much good it will be for Android tablet vendors to stuff channels and have their products end up sitting on store shelves. It will be good for the Android fanbois because they’ll get their wish of extremely cheap Android tablets as the retailers mark down those high-end products just to get rid of them. I’m counting on smart consumers to just flat-out ignore any Android tablets and merely treat them as curiosities. I’m looking for some key celebrities to push the iPad 2. Hopefully, Oprah Winfrey will again lure millions of consumers to buy the iPad 2 in a subtle fashion as she gushes love and affection over it.

By: waxwing

waxwing — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:33:06 +0000

Huh? Didn’t Samsung retract their sales figures stating that those were shipments to retailers not sales to endusers and that actual sales to endusers were “slow”. Perhaps you have new information but it was several weeks ago that the Samsung numbers were changed.