Looks to me like the market has decided. I do think the 2011 will be updated. Bear in mind that the 'Other' includes Android, WebOS and Win 7. Based on data available to day, ~80% of the 'Other' is Android.
And, recall that the first 'competitors' against the iPad were MSFT's Win7 Home; basically a tablet version of the iPad. They failed .... miserably.
Doesn’t look like the market has decided at all. The competition is growing, pretty astronomically.
That graphic/graph is so dumb for anyone to use as a “proof” that the “market has decided”.
Look, the tablet market has received a “redesign”, and that new tablet redefinition was brought about because of the iPad, and, just like anything else on the market, no matter what the market, the “original” will, of course, have a big head-start and an advantage out of the gate with bigger sales.
So, even if the iPad has sales of 10 or 20 or 30 million, the market is barely getting started, and the winner is still to be determined and still way in the future.
You are getting desperate, and you’ll try anything to try to win the argument, and the pie charts you presented are not indicative of what the competition is about to unleash on the market.
Come back in 2 or 3 years when the market has matured and received a more balanced introduction of tablets from the many manufacturers who will become competitive against the iPad and anything Android.
Even after having the “new” tablet form factor to itself, the iPad hasn’t really sold as many as one would expect, and there aren’t going to be too many people willing to part with $500 to $800 for simple tablets when for the same kind of money, they could get their hands on an i5 laptop or desktop. Heck, I just bought myself a desktop with the AMD Phenom six core CPU, and with a 2 terabytes harddrive, and 16 GB of main memory, and it cost me only $799. That’s a computer with “supercomputing” capabilities for the price of an iPad. The iPad and any other tablet for around $600 to $800 is simply insane. I want tablets, for a more reasonable price, and they’re coming.
The iPad did set sales records, and it is in the lead, but, the market for iPads may have reached saturation point, and it’s “growth” may depend more on the “replacement” arena, where, the “new” iPad2s end up being purchased by the same iPad1 customers. Recurring purchases do not add to the customer base.
But, sales comparisons between different manufacturers are silly when, the market is basically a new one with virtually one player having most of the initial sales because, they were virtually the only player in the market.
Let’s see what happens when the competition gets going. One thing for sure is that, the iPad and Androids are going to get a lot more competition this year and next, and the sales figures to look for will be the ones that come out after the 2011 shopping season and those towards the middle of 2012, when even more competition enters the market.
So, again, why are you so intent on defending the iPad and touting the sales figures when the competition was virtually non-existent? What you’re doing is like comparing the output of an orange tree which took 15 years to grow against an orange tree which was “born” 2 years ago. It’s unfair and nonsensical. Let’s see the production of both trees when they’re of comparable sizes.
But, I’m not interested on sales figures. I’m interested on you answering the questions I keep posing to you regarding the Windows 8, and the reasons that “it will fail” according to you.
Look, stay away from the fanboism and the charts and your excuses, and concentrate on the discussion at hand. I don’t care about Apple or Microsoft or Google. I just want tablets that are “useful” for more than just “media consumption”. If Windows 8 were to give me what I want, then I might want one, but, if it’s destined to be a failure like you claim, I want to know what inside information you have that would have you make that claim.
Comprende?