Report Claims Microsoft Beat Apple in Online Tablet Sales for October (winbeta.org)

Eloking writes: Apple's iPad tablet ushered in the modern tablet era when it was introduced in 2010, and it's dominated tablet sales ever since. iPad sales have stagnated recently, but nevertheless Apple has maintained its lead in overall tablet market share. WinBeta received an early version of an upcoming report, '1010data Facts for Ecom Insights, January 2014 – October 2015' by the 101data Ecom Insights Panel, however, that indicates all of that might be changing as Microsoft assumes the mantle of best-selling tablet maker in terms of online sales in October.

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Surface is great

[Billly Gates]

Of course on slashdot it is a failure and no one is buying them. But in the real world they ate the number 2 generator of revenue for Microsoft and can run office and be managed via active directory for IT departments making them popular. The screen is Apple quality hardware

Re:Surface is great

[smallfries]

Whoops: forgot to say, obviously my main interest is sketching. The surface running windows ten shows what touch on a laptop should br. Very nice. Without a pen the ipad pro was just a really big ipad - bit pointless.

The funny part.

[Lumpy]

I have a Surface pro... and I can not get myself to buy another. The huge problems with the Surface pro and how microsoft has told me "sucks to be you, reinstall the OS" means I have zero interest in walking down their road again. Not as long as they use low grade dog food chips like Marvell for their wireless networking.

Extra, extra!

[Plumpaquatsch]

Controversial new study by before unknown Market Research Institute proves Apple is doomed! Institute makes name for itself! Factuality is irrelevant!

Rerun of the movie first shown in 1977 can be seen at 11.

Brand awareness

[freeze128]

The Microsoft Surface is the official tablet of the NFL. You can see it used by officials and coaches in every televised game.... Yet the announcers don't know any better and call them "iPads".

Re:Brand awareness

[thegarbz]

This isn't brand awareness as much as mouth drooling fucking stupidity. I've seen all sorts of things call iPads, and yes that includes things that say "Surface" on them in clear text. That shouldn't be a praise for apple, that should be an out right failing grade for our species. Mind you it is 2015 and people still call the computer chassis the "hard drive" so I don't see us breaking out of this trend anytime soon.

One month....

[Dcnjoe60]

One month does not make a trend. If Microsoft can string multiple sequential months together, than this will be news. Until then, it only means that in this particular month, more Microsoft tablets were sold. Interesting, but nothing more than that.

Re:They can't lead in market numbers forever

[AmiMoJo]

You can't compare profit margins at the top and bottom of the market. Samsung have premium models that make huge profits and sell millions too, but they also have affordable models that cater to a different group of consumers.

The fact that they make small profits on some products does not mean they aren't competing, it just means that they operate in a market that Apple ignores on top of their premium tablet business.

In fact Apple has been expanding into Samsung's other markets, e.g. the large tablet market and the pen input market.

Re:They can't lead in market numbers forever

[exomondo]

Now you have the iPad mini and iPhone 6 Plus competing to be the same size.

I actually really like the iPhone 6 Plus and it was long overdue, yes it is naturally more awkward than it's predecessors but that's ok, the tradeoff is screensize which makes it MUCH more useful. Apple has a habit of lambasting things that its competitors are doing that it isn't yet doing, when they do that history has shown it is a sign it is something they are worried about and hurriedly working on themselves.

Apple stabbed with its own Pencil

[lylefile]

And Microsoft will continue to dominate through the Christmas holiday. How do I know? I went into the Apple Store to buy an iPad Pro.
        Sales person: "Yes sir! We have them in stock!"
        Me: ::Pulls out wallet:: "Please add a Pencil to the order."
        Genius: "We'll ship a Pencil to you in 5-6 weeks"
        Me: ::Puts wallet away:: ::Leaves store::
(Sometime later)
        Me: ::Typing this on my Surface Pro 4 and loving it!::

I still remember the Intel switch

[Ecuador]

Yeah, about lambasting things that its competitors are doing, there was a pretty crazy instance.
It was during the switch to Intel CPUs. They were selling for a while both their older Power PC based line and their new Intel inside line, so they had, at the same time on their website for several months, both pages dedicated to proving how much faster the Power PCs were compared to the Pentium, and another set of pages at a different part of the site showing how much FASTER the Pentium was compared to the Power PC. They were even using the same benchmarks sometimes (with some fudging about of course, like enabling/disabling AltiVec to suit the desired result etc).
It was so ridiculous, but it was even more ridiculous that nobody was really calling them on it. They claimed both sides of the coin with a straight face and it seems that most were drinking the kool-aid.
To top it off, at that time (before the Intel Core 2), it is most likely that AMD had the fastest CPU, so both campaigns were BS...

I guess I know the tiny flaw in the survey

[Plumpaquatsch]

It's an old one: they asked all the (online in this case) retailers for numbers, and added up all numbers reported. Only one major retailer didn't answer (and never does): Apple. Guess who sells most Apple gear?

Next year: Amazon confirms - Nobody buys Apple TVs or Google Chromecasts!