>>23993506> A tablet is not a Desktop or a laptop or whatever the hell a "PC" is considered now a days.That's 1) as arbitrary a distinction as any other*, and 2) not relevant to the point that they're selling a fuckton of iPads.
*I'd also point out that Microsoft's strategy for Windows 8 indicates that they don't see tablets as some kind of totally separate incomparable category, either. If there are millions upon millions of people whose computing needs can be satisfied with ARM based tablets (many millions of whom are in growth markets like China where x86 PC ownership is still very uncommon), it doesn't make sense to treat them as something less than a personal computer.
> Yes Apple controls the tablet market but they suck big time in the Desktop/Laptop marketThat's not quite true.
- Yes, they have a small market share of all desktops/laptops if you sum up all Windows machines vs. Mac OS X machines. But it makes no sense to add up all Windows OEMs unless you're comparing Apple to Microsoft.
- That said, Apple's market share as an x86 OEM is short of the bigger ones like Dell and HP but is actually on par with some of the medium-sized ones like Lenovo.
- On top of which, the market segments where they have the most presence are the most profitable ones. So they're doing extremely good business, which makes it hard to agree with the idea that they "suck big time" in those markets.
All of which is beside the point that, in comparing iPad sales to PC OEM sales, they're trying to illustrate the scale of their success by comparison, not declare perfect equivalence.