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> But the market for non-iPad tablets is about as big today as it was before the iPad. Citation needed. The original Galaxy Tab sold ~2 million in the first 3

> But the market for non-iPad tablets is about as big today as it was before the iPad. Citation needed. The original Galaxy Tab sold ~2 million in the first 3 months, the Playbook sold ~250k in the first 3 months. [1]. Were Windows tablets selling that well? [1] - http://www.bgr.com/2011/05/18/250000-blackberry-playbook-tablets-sold-to-date-rbc-says/ http://www.bgr.com/2011/05/18/250000-blackberry-playbook-tab...

bonch 15y ago
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/31/samsung-galaxy-tab-sales-actually-quite-small/ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/31/samsung-galaxy-tab-sa... But during the company’s quarterly earnings call on Friday, a Samsung executive revealed those figures don’t represent actual sales to consumers. Instead, they are the number of Galaxy Tab devices that Samsung has shipped to wireless companies and retailers around the world since product’s formal introduction in late September.
- MatthewPhillips 15y ago
  That's an already debunked mistranslation; the article you link to has a correction. I don't know why some people don't want to admit that the Tab did pretty well but the evidence is that it did. Not just the numbers but the fact that they made another one, and those same retailers and wireless companies are gladly stocking it yet again. They wouldn't have done so if they says were "quite small" as many media outlets were happy to (falsely) report.
kenjackson 15y ago
"The Tablet PC popularity nowadays is decline if compared to the launch time in 2002. IDC data also shows that sale of Tablet PC in 2007 is around 3,3 million units, or only 1,2% from total sale of all PC in around the world." From: http://ngadgeti.blogspot.com/2008/04/hp-pavilion-tx1209-review-new-tablet-pc.html http://ngadgeti.blogspot.com/2008/04/hp-pavilion-tx1209-revi... With that said, I think its absurd to say that the market for non-iPad tablets is the same today as it was 18 months ago. People are definitely more interested in tablets now. I wouldn't be surprised if there were 50M tablet PCs with Win8 sold next year.
zmmmmm 15y ago
Yes, I found that assertion to be ridiculous as well. Hardware has changed radically. Old tablets had battery life of 3 hours, new tablets 8-10 hours. Old tablets weighed 4lb, new tablets 1lb. Old tablets needed a stylus or used poor resistive single touch screens. New tablets use responsive multitouch screens. Old tablets were dependent on wifi and did not have GPS. New tablets can have constant connectivity and can include awesome location based services. Old tablets cost ~$1k or more. New tablets cost < $500. Old tablets mostly ran Windows that was relatively poorly adapted to tablets. New tablets run beautiful dedicated tablet OSes. There's just no comparison at all between these products, there's no way you can just make an assertion about the market for them being the same.

bonch 15y ago

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/31/samsung-galaxy-tab-sales-actually-quite-small/ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/31/samsung-galaxy-tab-sa... But during the company’s quarterly earnings call on Friday, a Samsung executive revealed those figures don’t represent actual sales to consumers. Instead, they are the number of Galaxy Tab devices that Samsung has shipped to wireless companies and retailers around the world since product’s formal introduction in late September.

MatthewPhillips 15y ago
That's an already debunked mistranslation; the article you link to has a correction. I don't know why some people don't want to admit that the Tab did pretty well but the evidence is that it did. Not just the numbers but the fact that they made another one, and those same retailers and wireless companies are gladly stocking it yet again. They wouldn't have done so if they says were "quite small" as many media outlets were happy to (falsely) report.

kenjackson 15y ago

"The Tablet PC popularity nowadays is decline if compared to the launch time in 2002. IDC data also shows that sale of Tablet PC in 2007 is around 3,3 million units, or only 1,2% from total sale of all PC in around the world." From: http://ngadgeti.blogspot.com/2008/04/hp-pavilion-tx1209-review-new-tablet-pc.html http://ngadgeti.blogspot.com/2008/04/hp-pavilion-tx1209-revi... With that said, I think its absurd to say that the market for non-iPad tablets is the same today as it was 18 months ago. People are definitely more interested in tablets now. I wouldn't be surprised if there were 50M tablet PCs with Win8 sold next year.

zmmmmm 15y ago

Yes, I found that assertion to be ridiculous as well. Hardware has changed radically. Old tablets had battery life of 3 hours, new tablets 8-10 hours. Old tablets weighed 4lb, new tablets 1lb. Old tablets needed a stylus or used poor resistive single touch screens. New tablets use responsive multitouch screens. Old tablets were dependent on wifi and did not have GPS. New tablets can have constant connectivity and can include awesome location based services. Old tablets cost ~$1k or more. New tablets cost < $500. Old tablets mostly ran Windows that was relatively poorly adapted to tablets. New tablets run beautiful dedicated tablet OSes. There's just no comparison at all between these products, there's no way you can just make an assertion about the market for them being the same.