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And in the same vein, "who on earth is going to buy a tablet"? The iPad is going to be a dud. Nobody needs or wants tablets. People don't know what they want,
by junto 10y ago
And in the same vein, "who on earth is going to buy a tablet"? The iPad is going to be a dud. Nobody needs or wants tablets.
People don't know what they want, so we'll make them want it.
- fucking_tragedy 10y agoI was under the impression iPad sales were dropping.
- dpark 10y agoiPad sales may be dropping for any number of reasons. The number of tablets in the average home is climbing, regardless.
- Normal_gaussian 10y agoYou are correct [0]. For both iPad's and general tablet sales [1]. Of course this does not confirm that tablets are falling out of favour - they could simply have reached their saturation point. Does anybody know if saturation sales are expected to look like this normalish (gaussianish) graph? [0] http://www.statista.com/statistics/269915/global-apple-ipad-sales-since-q3-2010/ http://www.statista.com/statistics/269915/global-apple-ipad-... [1] http://www.statista.com/statistics/272070/global-tablet-shipments-by-quarter/ http://www.statista.com/statistics/272070/global-tablet-ship...
- MawNicker 10y agoYup. That looks like the first derivative of bounded growth. The integral of that graph would look like a logistic function [1]. It's often used to model population growth. 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function
- steego 10y agoClearly tablet sales performed better than critics expected, but they never matched the phone because owning a phone significantly diminishes the value proposition of a tablet. Sales may get better as manufacturers figure out new ways to add value for the consumer or to successfully absorb the PC market.