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Forums - Gaming Discussion - IDC: Apple’s iPad dropped to 43.6% tablet share in Q4, Samsung took second with 15.1%, Amazon third with 11.5%

famousringo on 31 January 2013

I keep waiting for this great Android growth to show up somewhere in usage metrics, but it never seems to.

Well, I did see one report recently which claims average Android app revenues are now 30% of iOS revenues, but I've never heard of App Annie before and their claim that Google Play revenues doubled in a single quarter is very suspicious to me.



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man-bear-pig on 31 January 2013
torok said:
man-bear-pig said:
torok said:
man-bear-pig said:
pezus said:
So how is the Android vs. iOS share looking?


How's the Nexus 7 doing?


How's Surface doing :D?


Good. 900k for a new market entrant that's priced at £500 is impressive. It was only available for 2 months of the quarter aswell, which makes it even more impressive


Comparing with the first entrants of Nexus line and Kindle, it isn't impressive at all.


Erm...you don't know what you're talking about. I don't know much about Kindle sales, but I know the Nexus 7 sold 1m in its first 2 months on sale, and it's 1/3 of the price of a Surface...so yeah.



My prediction threads:

Wii U will sell under 40m units (made on 14th September 2012)

PS Vita will sell under 20m units (made on 30th September 2012)

Wii U will sell under 7m in 2013 - I was right

Halo 4 first 9 weeks sales prediction

PS4 to be down YOY in 2015

torok on 31 January 2013
man-bear-pig said:

Erm...you don't know what you're talking about. I don't know how much the Kindles sales, but I know the Nexus 7 sold 1m in its first 2 months on sale, and it's 1/3 of the price of a Surface...so yeah.


Actually, the only number we got from Asus about it is that it's is selling 1 M per month and it wasn't released on hollydays. Kindle numbers are somewhere in this thread.



Bet with jetforcejiminy: PS4 will pass the Wii lifetime numbers.

ArnoldRimmer on 31 January 2013
nightsurge said:
pezus said:
So how is the Android vs. iOS share looking?

Well considering Android would be:

Samsung + Amazon + Asus

-------------------------------------

32.4% Android total marketshare vs. 43.6% iOS marketshare.

Android growth and iOS decline looks good. Begun, the fall of iOS tablet dominance has.

32.4% + 43.6% = 76%. So what would the remaining 24% be?

The Barnes & Noble devices are Android, too,  just like probably the vast majority of the 22% "others".

So I'd say Android market share is currently probably closer to (100% - IOS), and has probably already surpassed IOS market share in tablets too.



ethomaz on 31 January 2013
Somini said:
I thought most people here did not trust the IDC numbers?

IDC is quite reliable and respected in the world.



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Gamerace on 31 January 2013

Apple is still the big player, but clearly momentum is on Samsung and Android's side. I haven't and don't expect to see anything from Apple since Jobs left that'll reverse this trend. Stall it (Ipad Mini) yes, but reverse it, no.



 

ethomaz on 31 January 2013

Just a hint... Apple said in the financial release that iPhone and iPad product had supply issues in the quarter.... they just not sold more because these problems.



famousringo on 31 January 2013
Gamerace said:
Apple is still the big player, but clearly momentum is on Samsung and Android's side. I haven't and don't expect to see anything from Apple since Jobs left that'll reverse this trend. Stall it (Ipad Mini) yes, but reverse it, no.


I'm not so convinced. Android's seeming dominance in US smartphone sales didn't stop Apple from taking a 63% share of Verizon's smartphones this past quarter. That's the carrier that poured hundreds of millions of marketing dollars into its own Droid brand.

Android as a platform is characterized by low margins and low stickiness, while iOS displays high margins and high stickiness. That puts Apple in a good postion to make a play for marketshare whenever it thinks it's advantageous to do so. The iPad Mini is a step in that direction, but it doesn't pay to rush when supplies of current products are already constrained and your platform is already the primary target for value-adding third parties.



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disolitude on 31 January 2013

You people pretend Microsoft Surface is the only Windows tablet.

From the article:

"Meanwhile, Samsung swooped in to take advantage. The South Korean company experienced 263 percent year-on-year growth, shipping nearly 8 million combined Android and Windows 8 tablets during the quarter."

As you know that Samsung, Asus make windowns 8 and RT devices too as of last quarter... As do HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer and lesser known manufacturers like Kupa, Vizio, Razer.

In other news, in USA alone Amazon Kindle Fire leads the Android tablet marketshare by a large margin.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/android-market-share/

So all 6 million of those tablets sold are in USA which is pretty impressive. By doing the math, Samsung sold about 2 million Windows + Android tablets in USA lst quarter. 



Somini on 31 January 2013
ethomaz said:
Somini said:
I thought most people here did not trust the IDC numbers?

IDC is quite reliable and respected in the world.

I know that, but a lot of people posting here did not when IDC reported this;

http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/11936/article/idc-ps3-shipments-overtake-xbox-360-worldwide/