[citation][nom]larryw4csc[/nom]Why are the numbers always so unreal. Apple has 73% of the tablet market, BUT Android has 49% to iOS's 29% of the OS market share? It must not be Android smartphones boosting that number because only iPhones sell in every report on smartphones I see. Must be all those Android toys and games giving Android a 20% excess number..??Our BestBuy can't tell me when they'll have Acer or Asus or Samsung tablets in stock to sell, again. There's plenty of iPads, though...Could somebody lie to us because Apple product placements are SO important for revenue?[/citation]
The numbers are entirely consistent.
Apple clearly dominates the tablet market at the moment. The smartphone market, clearly, is also far larger numerically. You say it must not be Android smartphone sales boosting that number, but it is. While iPhone outsells every other phone (indeed I think 3 models of iPhone were in the top 5 of last quarter) - Android isn't just one manufacturer, or one type of phone - it's dozens and dozens. While they all individually fail in comparison to the iPhone, if you add them all up they currently have a larger market share. The larger market share Android has is clearly divided amongst several companies who each have a relatively small piece of the pie.
As for your Bestbuy store anecdote, most iPad users don't buy from there - and BestBuy maybe didn't anticipate much demand for the Acer / Asus or Samsung tablets - since they sell nowhere near as well.