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dsgrue3 on 16 January 2013
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man-bear-pig said:
dsgrue3 said:
man-bear-pig said:
@That tablet shipment chart:

Were any Windows tablets even available in Q3 2012?! :o

* Microsoft captured a niche 2 percent global tablet share in Q3 2012. The imminent release of the new Windows 8 operating system will likely drive Microsoft tablet volumes higher during the Q4 2012 holiday season.

No, and if they sold 1 million surface tablets in Q4 that's about 4% of the tablet market for Q4 (assuming Q4 shipments = Q3 shipments). Take from that what you will.


Okay, interesting.

So lets assume that 1.5m non-Surface windows tablets were sold this quarter (complete guess)...and 30m tablets were shipped this quarter... That means 2.5m out of 30m tablets sold this quarter were Windows tablets...which means M$ will have 8%+ of the tablet market this quarter. That's impressive!


lol, non-surface MS tablets sold 0.4M in Q3 and you want to assume they sell 1.5m in Q4? Not happening. Let's just stick with the 1.8% market share from Q3 for non-surface tablets and add the 4% from 1 million sold / 25M (Q3 Market total) and we can guess it has about 5.8% market share, which is a huge improvement from 1.8%, but I think they expected better.

More than likely the market increased in Q4 so I would guess 5% at the top end for MS share.