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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.
At one point, everyone who wanted an iPad and is able to afford one will already have done so. After that, these people will only buy a new one to upgrade once in a while.
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.
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I recall reading about when Pepsi overtook Coke. Everyone rejoiced. However, in actual fact, Coke still outsold Pepsi by a wide margin; the overtaking was in grocery store sales which they had managed to do by making the six-pack into an 8-pack for the same price and then measuring by total volume.
And here we have a report that says MS outsold Apple in *online sales*. Hmmm. I suspect that Apple sells the majority, if not the vast majority, of their sales through retail chains. So when I read:
"The report did not take in account customers who purchased their tablets in brick-and-mortar stores, such as Apple’s retail stores or Best Buy."
Then basically I think this is even less of a mini-victory than Fortune posits. Pepsi anyone?
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.
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The summary says "online sales" which means that we are probably NOT talking about "shipped" rather than "sold" numbers. However, these are numbers for October, which is all before the new iPads shipped (including the iPad Pro) so we are probably seeing some depression of iPad sales that will catch up in the November numbers (or not: if MS can maintain these sales numbers in November and December, then this would be quite interesting).
just a ghost in the machine.
Tablets are already dying off, the iPad sales plateau is proof of that.
Why tablets are dying is a more interesting question.
Tablets aren't dying. Tablet sales are falling off because the people willing to buy one now have one. Tablets will stick around for the foreseeable future.
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The Surface and Windows Phones will sell very well to corporates with heavy investment in Microsoft tech because it integrates very well and the Surface can run all their proprietary software. Apple and Linux fanboys are completely incapable of understanding that the corporate world is never going to fully embrace something that doesn't allow them to take advantage of their huge investment in Windows.
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The pen is shit. Horrific lag, unpredictable latency.
Couldn't disagree more. It's the best pen input device I've used that didn't need to be physically tethered to a computer, and the lag is quite predictable (really bad in hover, almost non existent when touching)
Tried the builtin software ("fresh paint"?), what a pile of crap.
This I agree with, wholeheartedly. Great little kids toy but even then only if they want to play with swishing colours together. It's garbage.
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.
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. ::Pulls out wallet:: "Please add a Pencil to the order." ::Puts wallet away:: ::Leaves store:: ::Typing this on my Surface Pro 4 and loving it!::
Sales person: "Yes sir! We have them in stock!"
Me:
Genius: "We'll ship a Pencil to you in 5-6 weeks"
Me:
(Sometime later)
Me:
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...
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