| thranx said: that is only us and canada. everyone i know with a tablet uses them. Only 1 has an ipad. Edit: it gets it data only through who sees their ads. for all we know more of their ads are on apple products than android, especially since android is run by google, another advertising company. do you have any other usage info? this doesn't seem to accurate or usefull knowing how they get their info. |
As usual, the VGChartz demographic will tend to skew towards more spec-chasing personalities, which is not the wider market Apple serves, so your anecdote does not necessarily reflect reality any more than my anecdotal evidence that 9 in 10 tablets I see at the mall or on the bus are iPads. So you're right that more data is better. I couldn't find a recent tablet-specific study (though here's one from early 2012 that gives iPad 95% share of e-commerce transactions on tablets). So instead here's the June 2013 web usage across all mobile devices:
This is globally, not just North America. The iPad accounts for 34% of all smartphone and tablet web usage, and all Android phones and tablets combined come out to 26% (see different chart on the same site). Now obviously Android phones far outnumber Android tablets, so I hope you'll agree that a large chunk of that 26% is just phones. If so then simple math dictates that the iPad has a very commanding share of tablet usage, and even in the absurd sccenario that no Android phone user ever opens the browser, that still gives iPad 56% of all tablet traffic.
EDIT: I wish there was more direct data available, but none of the big players besides Apple is willing to say (on a regular basis) how many tablets they sell: not Amazon, not Samsung, not Google. Even when they do it is usually "shipped" and not "sold". A cynic might be led to conclude that the reality is worse than third-party estimates, so they prefer to let others make assumptions.
