Comments on: Report: Tablets now drive more ecommerce traffic than smartphones

By: links

links — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:19:30 +0000

LINS

By: Magnus Attefall

Magnus Attefall — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:13:20 +0000

Very good article – in my weekly, Swedish, news aboit IT and Web: http://digital-online-webb-strateg.se/blogg/v-26-e-handel-m-handel-linkedin-facebook-telia-skype-ip-telefoni-tumblr/

By: NoJoe

NoJoe — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 22:28:24 +0000

If you remove the iPad from the tablet category there is no story. If you just count the iPad, the story remains the same. So yes you are attempting to mislead. But hay if your happy with that, fine. Just don’t expect anyone to be fooled by your excuse.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 16:01:09 +0000

I guess I wasn’t clear on the point that I was trying to drive, but to say that Android at %5 of marketshare is irrelevant in the tablet space is as shortsighted as Microsoft saying that Mac is a non starter in 2009 with their 5% marketshare, for all the reasons that you have all listed. Furthermore, for anyone that actually read the EQ1 eBook, which most likely you have not, they do not disclose the sources/sites that are part of their statistical analysis so this article essentially means nothing.

By: Ryan Kim

Ryan Kim — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:46:14 +0000

Guys, thanks for reading. Look, this is a category comparison. Monetate set this up as PC vs smartphone vs tablet. They didn’t get into specific breakdowns by manufacturers of other categories but they did for tablets. I clearly noted that and that’s how you know that 95 percent of the traffic comes from tablets. Yes, that’s pretty dominant. Will it always be that way? Who knows. But for now, I’m fine with comparing categories and letting you the reader know what that means. If I omitted that information, that would have been wrong but I didn’t do that.

By: Mark Anderson

Mark Anderson — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:18:09 +0000

2009? You’re kidding right. Maybe you AND Steve Ballmer need to realize that it’s 2012.

By: Ryan Fraley

Ryan Fraley — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:07:54 +0000

Using 2009 data for a 2012 argument? That’s the same mentality that is getting RIM and Nokia killed. Even the Mac has higher market share than ever and is killing the PC on the important $1000 and up sales metric. Also note Apple has more profit from the iPhone than Microsoft has PERIOD. That might explain why Microsoft is rushing to market with their own Windows 8 tablet, the Surface.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:09:35 +0000

So, are you pretending that anything other than the iPad is succeeding to prove that we’re not biased, or because you are?

By: twimoon1

twimoon1 — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:28:53 +0000

If you use the term “fanboy” you have already lost the argument.

By: twimoon1

twimoon1 — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:26:05 +0000

@alextheukranian, Macs may own less than 5% sales worldwide, but they own a lot more than that of retail sales in the US. Many if not most Windows PC sales are in bulk by big businesses. A large percentage of these do not purchase software beyond Microsoft Office, and what comes with the computer. Meaning if you are considering Windows a software platform, you cannot target the large number of office cubicle computers which will never purchase your software, neither can you target cash registers and ATM machines. You can only target computers which have a chance to load your software. From the point of developers, the Mac market makes up a lot more than 5% of “addressable computers”, computers where there is a chance your software will be used and purchased.

So it comes down to what you are calling a “market”, are you simply interested in hardware sales? Then the sheer volume of PC shipments does indeed dwarf Apple, and unless you are looking at profit share, you could just call it the PC market. In fact that is very often what it is called anyway.