[ModelBreaker]

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[Swordmaker]

Steve Jobs wasn't lying! the iPad did take better than 90% of the tablet market in 4Q2010— PING!

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[Jonty30]

Right now, it might be 95 percent of the tablet market.

But it won’t be in a couple of years, once the Android market ramps up.

[TomServo]

And Leo Laporte says he was lying.

[hole_n_one]

Isn’t this about the time you show up and make some dumb ass comment?

[RayChuang88]

That's because there was effectively NO competitors to the iPad until the Samsung Galaxy Tab arrived late in 2010.

But this year will be different. The Motorola Xoom is only the very first among many tablet computers running Google Android 3.0 ("Honeycomb"), and within the next few months we'll see the Blackberry Playbook running a QNX variant and HP TouchPad running WebOS. As such, I felt that the incremental improvements on the iPad 2 may not be enough to keep these new tablets at bay.

[dayglored]

> the iPad did take better than 90% of the tablet market in 4Q2010

Of course, "taking" 90% of a market is a different achievement from "expanding" a market to 1000% of its prior size, which is more what Apple did here.

That is, if the prior-to-iPad market was 100 units, and the iPad sold 900 units, then Apple has 90% of the resulting market -- yet they haven't taken a single unit away from the prior number.

I'm only quibbling about the word "take". What Apple did was expand the market by about a factor of 10.

IMO, sales market percentages are among some of the most awful, misleading, and pointless statistics in existence. They have to be treated with suspicion. :)

[meyer]

Depends on how you define the specific market, no?

[ThomasThomas]

“Many have said (iPad) is the most successful consumer product ever launched"

These numbers are for "consumer products" Most if not all the major competitors have both a consumer and business lines of products. I ate at a restaurant that used HP iPAQ Pocket PC a few years back to take orders. It was not a "consumer market" device. Before the iPad there wasn't much of a "consumer market" for the product.

[ThomasThomas]

“Many have said (iPad) is the most successful consumer product ever launched"

These numbers are for "consumer products" Most if not all the major competitors have both a consumer and business lines of products. I ate at a restaurant that used HP iPAQ Pocket PC a few years back to take orders. It was not a "consumer market" device. Before the iPad there wasn't much of a "consumer market" for the product.