iPad mini sells more in 3 days than the Nexus 7 has sold in the past month

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famousringo said:

IKnowMyName said:

I'm kinda new here but....WTF?

I don't think apple will ever exceed Nintendo Wii sales...EVER. You might want to recount that iphone sales. You have to remember that Wii is only ONE unit. Iphone has iphone 1, 2, 3, 3gs, 4, 4s, 5 & soon to be 5s. Ipad has 1, 2, 3 and soon to be 4. And now mini pad.

So, we can now safely say that Nintendo will still be crowned king of sales for ONE unit.

Don't be so sure. Apple sold 125 million iPhones in the past year, and research has shown that around 90% of iPhones sold are the latest model. That means 112 million iPhone 4S's.

Even if the 4S hasn't sold that many yet, you have to take into account that the smartphone market is still growing rapidly, while game consoles seem like they might not be growing at all. The iPhone 5 will likely sell 150 million units or more.

I am not sure if you are using troll logic or if you simply are not good at maths, but the fact that 90% of all iPhones sold in the most recent quarter were iPhone 4S, does not necessarily mean that 90% of all iPhones sold in the last year were the 4S. For all we know, early attach rates were more evenly distributed, and also we know that iPhone is selling faster (better?) now than it did a year ago -- almost 50% faster.

However, it is dangerous to draw any hard conclusions. Unless it can be proven that iPhone consistently increases its marketshare (and so far we know that it only in fact increases it modestly) it could only be a case of fast replacement (adoption of devices by existing users). 'Growing' rapidly is relative, and iPhone 5 grows rapidly only in comparison to previous iPhone models, not Android.