Comments on: Apple iPad dominates U.S. and Canadian tablet Web traffic with 87% share in December

By: Laughing_Boy48

Laughing_Boy48 — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:21:59 +0000

You called it right. Apple is definitely TRENDING toward that slippery slope of zero growth. I’d say that’s a good reason to downgrade Apple on the spot. Current percentages mean nothing. You need to take at least a FIVE year look into the future to give Apple a proper valuation now. It’s always inevitable that cheap and plentiful will conquer expensive and exclusive. That is called the “Imminent commoditization of Apple” theory. Most fund managers can actually look into the future with their crystal balls and see this happening.

From what I’ve seen, no matter what percentage of market share Apple has now on both smartphones and tablets, it will only be seen by Wall Street to TREND downward as Android and even Windows X take more market share from iOS. As proof, a recent five year look at Apple’s P/E will show exactly what Wall Street believes will happen. It appears as though Android will soon reach 96% and iOS will sit at 1% market share.

In other news, the cockroach and fruit fly will ultimately overwhelm all of humankind with their superior numbers and take over the Earth.

By: Ted cranmore

Ted cranmore — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:24:31 +0000

You wait…In a year we’ll be reading that apple web share has plunged to 78%. Guess what, when you dominate like this there really is only one direction. Anything above the market share of sales is impressive and right now it is stupidly high. Of course it will drop, from stupidly high to merely absurdly high.

By: hannahjs

hannahjs — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:06:07 +0000

But! Look at the usage trend! DOWN from 88% to 87% month over month! A linear extrapolation gives Apple only 86 months, or a little over seven years, left to live. Sad!

Amazon, with its growing ecosystem, is poised to take over the tablet usage space; skyrocketing revenue will offset hardware losses until economies of scale kick in, lowering production costs. Vindication for the Amazon strategic gamble!

Jeff Bezos will be anointed as the new Steve Jobs, while Apple’s execs join other technology also-rans in the soup lines. Google will expand into the niche vacated by Apple, excellence will be sidelined in favor of mediocrity, privacy abolished, history rewritten, Dark Ages redux.

By: JK

JK — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:50:45 +0000

Who said that the “Sarcasm is a dying art”?

By: Just plain cake

Just plain cake — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:43:37 +0000

Without the typical phone subsidies, and the ability to financially support a BOGO offer, Samsung and friends simply cannot compete with Apple quality and its rich ecosystem.

By: althegeo

althegeo — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:33:07 +0000

5% for Kindle Fire and they lost money on every purchase.

Don’t worry, they make it up in discount book sales.

By: althegeo

althegeo — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:29:38 +0000

Sarcasm is a dying art.

By: thethirdshoe

thethirdshoe — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:15:20 +0000

I would like to know what the numbers now look like after all the iPad mini Christmas presents…

By: cococanuck

cococanuck — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:02:25 +0000

Brutal numbers for the non-ipad crowd. Brutal.

By: Peterson

Peterson — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:02:20 +0000

good that we now know 13% of US+Canada are fringe nut cases =)

funny how android fans has to constantly tout how Nexus devices are “pure android experience” …. i have news for them : 100% of iOS devices already have “pure iOS experience”.

By: 3l3c7ro

3l3c7ro — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:57:51 +0000

It looks like Kindle Fire really showed iPad that price is all that matters.