The Tablet Is Being Squeezed Out

Re:The Tablet Is Being Squeezed Out by coldtea on Thursday April 30, 2015 @10:14AM (#9465157)

>If Apple pumped out over 250 million iPads, a great majority of which is probably still in use, with the usual Android and Windows numbers the whole tablet population must be in the neighborhood of one billion.

How so? Android and Windows tablets never sold as much as iPads and still don't. It might be 50-50 now, but not 3 times as much by any means.

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Re:The Tablet Is Being Squeezed Out by ableal on Thursday April 30, 2015 @11:50AM (#9465830)

I was guessing, but looking it up ... Gartner are talking over 200 million tablets per year, of which only 50 or 60 are iPads (according to the Quartz charts), so I'd say it's in the ballpark. (I'd expect the Androids to decay faster, though ;-)

http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2954317

   """
   Device Type    2014   2015   2016
   [...]
   Tablets         216    233    259
   """

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Re:The Tablet Is Being Squeezed Out by coldtea on Friday May 01, 2015 @07:06PM (#9475064)

Interesting.

The last numbers I've seen were from around 2012, when no Android tablet had made any dents yet, and that version of a Surface was a failure.

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