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I think most people progress past tablets to things like Surface Pros and Chromebooks naturally. The tablet market is dying because it's just not useful in a w

• graeme 8y ago
  Apple sells mpre ipads annually than surface pros and chromebooka put together. About 43 million ipads in 2018: https://www.lifewire.com/how-many-ipads-sold-1994296 https://www.lifewire.com/how-many-ipads-sold-1994296 Chromebook is estimated to be under 11 million: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2476098/huge-chromebook-sales-growth--will-2019-be-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2476098/huge-chromeboo... I couldn’t find 2018 unit estimates for the surfsce, but in 2017 the estimate was about 3 million: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3254235/microsofts-surface-pro-turns-5.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/3254235/microsofts-surface-p... Surface revenue in 2018 was about 5 billion. Apple’s ipad revenue was a bit under 20 billion. And these surface numbers are for everything in the surface line, not just pros. A more likely explanation for lower ipad sales is that they last a long time. My ipad air 2 from 2014 still runs beautifully and gets security and software updates. But in any case ipad sales dwarf the surface and and chromebook sales combined.