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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
Here's a reality check:
Mac (OSX) has had a market share fixed at no more than 5% for its entire lifetime. It's a total irrelevance and always has been.
As for iOS, in 2009 it had a smartphone market share of about 14%; recent numbers from two months ago put it at 17%.
Meanwhile, in 2009 Android had less than 4% smartphone market share; two months ago it had 68%.
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smartphone market (grew 17.5% last year): Android increased its share of the American smartphone market to 52.2% in July 2012, up from 50.8% in April,
while iOS increased its share to 33.4%, up from 31.4% in April.
tablet (market has grown 400% in two years): Apple's share of the tablet market is seen as reaching 69.8 million units which accounts for 62.5 percent of global sales. The iPad dominated in 2011 with a 58.2 percent market share but that number was down from the device's launch year which saw iOS tablet sales take an unprecedented 76.2 percent piece of the pie. The growth will eat away at Android market share that is pegged to fall 2.3 percent from the 38.8 percent seen in 2011.
A record-setting unit shipments of Apple's iPad led to a better-than-anticipated growth for the tablet market during the second quarter of this year, a market research report said.
According to preliminary data from market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide tablet shipments
for the second quarter of 2012 are estimated at 25 million units, representing a quarter-over-quarter increase of 33.6 per cent from 18.7 million during the previous quarter and
year-over-year growth of 66.2 per cent from 15 million units at the same time last year.
I'm not sure where you're getting your numbers from, but they are flat wrong. Apple has one third of all smartphones and two thirds of all tablets. Tablets are the platform that everyone wants to be on. Notice the market has grown 66% year over year? Tell me what other company has two thirds of a market with that much growth that is over $20bil?