Comments on: Two years, 55M iPads later, Apple still rules tablets

By: Lava

Lava — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:47:57 +0000

Obviously you are missing the forest for the trees.

iPad sales are doubling each year.

2010 sales: 14.79 million units
2011 slaes: 40.49 million units

(Note: 2010 sales are missing a quarter because iPad started selling in Q2).

PC sales, in the meantime, are flat or declining. Declining severely if you subtract out the still-growing-fast Mac sales from that 400 million total (yes, that 400 million includes the 20+ million Mac sales).

If Apple again doubles sales in 2012, it will have sold 80 million units vs. < 400 million PCs. Easily doable.

In 2013, it will be 160 million vs. < 400 million PCs. So iPad will be 40% of your vaunted PC unit numbers in 2 more years.

The handwriting is on the wall. PCs have peaked and are now in decline while iPad is just getting started. But they do say the first stage of grief is denial….

By: Troy Taylor

Troy Taylor — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:51:56 +0000

Apple is an “absolute” juggernaut. Apple is “literally” taking their competition (out behind the woodshed) and bashing their f_ckin brains in.

By: AppleFUD

AppleFUD — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:00:17 +0000

While the numbers sound impressive, and for a single company they are, but let us not forget the big number in mobile and PC.

PC sell around 400M/year
Cell phones over 1B/year

People are used to buying Windows for their computers and when MS puts out Win8 I expect a lot of people to buy a PC/Tablet hybrid similar to the Asus Transformer.

Secondly, the power smartphones are getting these days it won’t be long till we just dock our phone and use it as a PC/Desktop.

What will be really cool is when a smartphone works wirelessly to a touch LCD without the need of a full OS on the touch display, thus making “tablets” nothing more than a wireless touch display.

Soon all you will have is your “smartphone” and that will be your total computing device. Everything else will just be a peripheral that works wirelessly with your smartphone.

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:20:55 +0000

Good point.

By: Billy Boy

Billy Boy — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:51:06 +0000

Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, Jeff Bezos’ iPad tsunami nightmare is fast approaching!

By: PXLated

PXLated — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:10:38 +0000

“let’s not forget it’s very likely that a new iPad model is just around the corner”
Yep, and potentially the iPad2 at a reduced price.
Will be interesting to see if Kindles/Nooks still sell as well if they are just a little cheaper than an iPad if Apple follows their iPhone pricing as new models get introduced.