Me thinks you are slightly biased in your review of the review.
Facts are facts.
What do you hate most, Apple products or bikers?
“Facts are facts.”
And the fact is that the original article was flawed. Anyone that thing the ipad was INTENDED as an iphone replacement has no grasp of ‘facts’.
Not when they are presented to hide the data. Why claim they represent something different than they do? A 15% uptick in a quarter that is usually the slowest of the year and then hiding that by not comparing similar Quarters is deliberatly obfuscation of the facts. THAT is bias.
Show me on that chart where ANY PREVIOUS year-over-year quarter had a similar uptick? You can't since the decline began. . . yet Adrian Kingsley-Hughes does NOT point that out. He hides that fact in the glut of data so most people would not see the uptick among all those high peaks of the Christmas quarters. Those quarters are irrelevant to the Spring Quarter sales of iPads. . . but HE doesn't tell anyone that. He is like the magician who is misdirecting the audience from what he doesn't want you to see. Same for the other chart. . . He hides the uptick by obliterating it by showing it in an in appropriate chart of ALL iPads sold cumulatively sold since the iPad was released. The Y axis is the TOTAL OF ALL SOLD! That Y axis represents over 400 million iPads so 15 million on that small a scale will not mean much, especially when represented by a LINE chart. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an artist at obfuscating the data.
You are right, facts are facts, but there is an art in making positives sound BAD. . . and Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is a master at manufacturing and exaggerating FUD out of good news facts for Apple. He has been doing it for years.
Did you even read the article? The entire article tried desperately to make a case for the iPad dying - while offering up numbers that did everything BUT make that case - as Swordmaker indicated - every indicator is that iPad sales are back on the rise - with a 15% increase over same quarter sales.
And Apple stock closed at an all-time high this week...
Apple must by dying (again)...(/sarcasm off)