Keeping in mind that Amazon has never released sales figures (apart from "its selling well") for any version of the Kindle so basically they are pulling numbers

Keeping in mind that Amazon has never released sales figures (apart from "its selling well") for any version of the Kindle so basically they are pulling numbers out of the air for that. Samsung stopped reporting their sales numbers "due to competitive issues" last summer so once again they are pulling numbers out of the air for that. Until the Android vendors man up and report actual sales then any comparison is meaningless. Meanwhile we have at least 2 cases of manufactures taking baths on their tablet stocks (RIM and HP) after the stuffing the channel, Occams Razor would suggest that is the simplest reason. Keep in mind also that Raymond cherry picks his data to fit his model and has been strangely silent on the decline of Android's market share in Q4 last year.