Apple iPad grows share of global tablet market despite declining sales

Since it was first released, the iPad remains the best tablet in the world. And it still is, all of these years after it first made its debut. Nothing else even comes close. Remember all of the countless "iPad Killers" that were touted by various clueless idiots and ignoramuses? Where are those tablets today? Six feet under, that's where. Some of them didn't even last more than a few months. Those moronic people should all be walking around with mandatory dunce caps, so we all can be aware of dangerously stupid people that lurk among us.

There are those who buy cheap, junk tablets, and then there are those who can afford iPads. It's as simple as that.

Bring on the iPad Pro 2! I'm ready to buy one of those this fall or winter! And Apple, how about giving us a new color scheme? I'm tired of owning so many devices that are "space grey". Imagine if somebody bought a new car every year, and every year they would get the same exact color. Boring!

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Since it was first released, the iPad remains the best tablet in the world. And it still is, all of these years after it first made its debut. Nothing else even comes close. Remember all of the countless "iPad Killers" that were touted by various clueless idiots and ignoramuses? Where are those tablets today? Six feet under, that's where. Some of them didn't even last more than a few months. Those moronic people should all be walking around with mandatory dunce caps, so we all can be aware of dangerously stupid people that lurk among us.

There are those who buy cheap, junk tablets, and then there are those who can afford iPads. It's as simple as that.

Bring on the iPad Pro 2! I'm ready to buy one of those this fall or winter! And Apple, how about giving us a new color scheme? I'm tired of owning so many devices that are "space grey". Imagine if somebody bought a new car every year, and every year they would get the same exact color. Boring!

Agreed

https://twitter.com/benbajarin/status/760182425255157760

IDC=I Don't Care

Apple could lose sales momentum while gaining market share. But people here tend to not care about market share.

I work for a US Fortune 100 and recently saw our Good App metrics.  85% iOS, 15% Android.  

fieldgulls said:

The triumphalism here is a bit much. Apple sold 10 million tablets, Samsung sold 6 million. Apple would love to enjoy a similar .375 split in the PC market as opposed to their current 10%-15% market share. As for "cheap tablets" ... Samsung's best seller is generally the Galaxy Tab, which runs about $250 for the 8' model and $400 for the 10' one. Lenovo's best-selling tablets similarly run from about $150 to $300. Android tablets never truly caught on because of a very bad decision by Larry Page. There was an internal tug-of-war between Android and Chrome OS within Google that got pretty pitched. Page should have resolved it by splitting the two into separate divisions - and moving both away from search/ads - and letting them compete against each other while borrowing from each other. Instead Page decided to restrict Android to being a mobile platform for casual use on small screens and designate ChromeOS as their platform for large screens, productivity and enterprise. It was really dumb. Google had already added tablet support in Android for their Honeycomb version done in response to the iPad, worked with Motorola for the 10' Xoom and Samsung for a 10' Nexus device and were working on multi-windowed apps and other multi-tasking and power features. But after the Page directive, Google yanked all of the tablet features out of Jellybean, the next Android release, and their next Nexus tablets had only 7' screens. They stopped all development on multi-windowing even though it was almost finished. They even refused to release tablet versions of their own apps and services despite providing and regularly updating them on iOS for the iPad. They even yanked HDMI, DLNA and SD card support. Samsung, LG and other manufacturers were forced to implement crude support for multi-windowing, stylus, keyboard, external storage and other productivity features. All to keep Android from competing directly with ChromeOS. You know what MIGHT have helped Chrome OS catch on? Allowing Chrome OS phones and tablets. Which manufacturers wanted to make and some customers - especially enterprises because Chrome OS is way more secure, stable and easier to manage than Android - wanted to buy but Google never allowed it. Just a bad strategy that cost Google billions. Android engineers wanted to develop Android into being a true competitor to Windows; Chrome OS engineers wanted to be allowed to address the security, fragmentation, performance and update problems that the cheaper Android phones were experiencing and neither were allowed to.

We don't know SHIT about Samsung's tablet totals, especially at the model level or their ASP, you pulled that STRAIGHT OUT OF YOUR ASS.

Only Apple actually publishes numbers and its ASP is way way way higher than anyone else in the tablet space.
They probably make 95% of profits. That's ALL THAT COUNTS really.