Kindle Fire killing other Android tabs, iPad dominates
In the holiday quarter, Amazon’s hot-selling Kindle Fire accounted for just under 30 percent of the Android tablet market. Now, three months later, the device which runs a highly modified version of Google’s mobile operating system is taking 54.4 percent of the Android segment of the tablet market, says market researcher comScore.
The Kindle Fire’s next closest Android competitors are Samsung’s Galaxy Tab (15.4 percent) and Motorola’s Xoom (7 percent).
Of course, all of these would-be iPad killers pale in comparison to Apple’s market dominating tab, which has regained share and now takes 73 percent, up from about two-thirds of sales in the 2011 holiday quarter.
Back in December 2010, I said 2011 will be like 2005 in that seven years ago Apple killed its iPod competition with a combination of excellent design, savvy supply chain management, build quality and an unparalleled ecosystem as well as highly competitive pricing. Given the most recent quarterly results from both Apple and its competitors, we have confirmation that Cupertino’s done it again with the iPad…
What’s your take?
via Fox Business, image News.com
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How do you know someone’s peeing on your leg and telling you it’s raining? When they only mention percentages.
For example, 3 is 300% of 1.
All this Kindle talk means shit if you don’t have hard numbers. For example, if there are 10 million Android tablets and you say that there are as many Kindles as there are Android tablets. Then we could come to the conclusion that they were 10 million Kindles sold.
Now, bragging about Kindles sold and anything Amazon really borders on pure stupidly and the dotcom bubble crash. Let me explain. Amazon’s profits drop 40% last quarter. For any other company this would signal a need for crisis management. But not Amazon. Investors should really be asking is Amazon’s business model sustainable? Based on profits dropping 40%, my answer would be no. But hey I’m not rocket scientist.
Let me put this in prespective 11,900/120 ~ 100 or Apple’s profits were 100 times that of Amazon’s last quarter. Apple’s profits are going up. Amazon’s are not.
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