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You are entirely wrong about "the iPad sells to iPhone users only". There are lots of customers who use iPads and have Android, Blackberry, and other phones too
by geuis 15y ago
You are entirely wrong about "the iPad sells to iPhone users only". There are lots of customers who use iPads and have Android, Blackberry, and other phones too. People buy the iPad not because it's a bigger iPhone, but because it's the best tablet on the market.
However you do have a point about there not really being a tablet market. The iPad really is its own market right now. I've used other tablets like the Xoom and Galaxy S and they really don't compare. My friend that works at Microsoft likes to argue that MS has made tablets for years. I've yet to disabuse him of the notion that laptops with touchscreens aren't tablets.
But no, iPads being the most popular tablets has nothing to do with iPhones.
- ajross 15y agoObviously in any big market there may be "lots" of consumers with any characteristic you want. I'm just saying that in my experience, every iPad I've seen has been owned by a previous iOS user. Every single one. Many of these people are geeks and might "have" Android/RIM devices too, but they're uniformly Apple fans. And they bought their iPads because they wanted the iPad. None of them looked at other tablets. So just like the manufacturers, I think you're fooling yourself, just in the other direction. The iPad isn't "winning" the tablet market. The iPad lives in its own market, and that's a proper subset of the iPhone market.
- Domenic_S 15y ago> Obviously in any big market there may be "lots" of consumers with any characteristic you want. Right... > I'm just saying that in my experience, every iPad I've seen has been owned by a previous iOS user. Every single one. Did the same person write both those sentences?
- armandososa 15y agoSo we're rejecting anecdotal evidence because of the existence this other anecdotal evidence?