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| Apple iPad with iOS5, Stronger Than Ever |
Although Apple has had great success in sales of the iPhone in the summer, the iPhone is on its way to great success for the company. Year after year, iPhone sales grew from 4.2 to 11,100,000, an increase of 166 percent. iPads, along with the software and related applications, the now nearly 25 percent of Apple's bottom line.
Call the results yesterday, chief executive, said Tim Cook, Apple has sold over 40 million iPhone and 2s shells. Independent statistics confirm that Apple is virutally the tablet market. The iPad has a stranglehold on 80 per cent of the same, according to market research Analytics Strategy, and comScore recently said that the accounts of a future life, which dominate 97 percent of all Internet traffic the tablets.
While the iPhone has prospered, their competitors have disappeared. The first so-called "real" iPhone competitor, the Samsung Galaxy Tab, made much noise, but the software was not denied initially optimized for tablets and sales have become more dynamic. The Motorola Xoom is not the first Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" Tablet clear customers why they should buy an iPad, and was too expensive. RIM's playbook from the beginning was paralyzed by the software. And the HP TouchPad died in the cradle (although he left a hell of an explosion).
"We had an exceptional quarter, a record 11 million," said Cook. "We see more competitors try to compete with the iPad. There are several factors that have different shapes, different prices, and I think it's fair to say that none of them has gained traction. In fact, as all competitors in the market come even increased our interest. According to IDC, which sold for three out of four tablets. "
Despite the success so huge, there is still a competitor who could seriously challenge the dominance of the iPad, and fire the Amazon Kindle, November 15. He announced in late September was the biggest surprise of Fire Kindle price. For only $ 200, which is $ 300 cheaper than the cheapest iPhone. Although fire is 7 inch screen Kindle is less than 9.7-inch iPhone screen, many customers see it as an acceptable sacrifice for a value.
As expected, Apple CEO Tim Cook did not see. Who has to rely on the tablets of your company competitive, with both the current and next iPad 2 Apple model coming down the pike.
"I think if you look at iOS 5, icloud, the ecosystem of iTunes, the App Store, books, movies, and the fact that we have more than 140,000 native applications against a range of hundreds of other children in the look, sense II is very confident in our ability to compete, and confidence in our product line, "said Cook.
A point of great attraction of the iPhone, Apple said that, as used in the enterprise market. The iPad is often cited as a leading product in the "consumerization of IT" phenomenon, and Apple, said that 92 percent of Fortune 500 companies are testing or deploying iPads at least some of their workers . Apple said the move by United Airlines to replace flight manuals with iPads, with examples of business applications, as evidence that the pill is not just an expensive toy.
If the iPad is a productivity tool, not a competitor to Apple should be worried, but for different reasons: Mac tablets are already cannibalizing sales of PCs responsible. Terminus, the identity of the iPad to complement, rather than using the core business of selling Apple computers?
The numbers seem to ensure at least the first part of Cook's argument, as sales of Apple, Mac, its best quarter ever spending almost 5 million desktops and laptops, while at the same time selling a number Record Cases.
What next for the iPad? No doubt there will be a new model in the winter / spring, and the success (or lack thereof) of the Fire Department's strategy in the Kindle Tablet Apple could change in coming years. Whatever happens in the coming months will be the most interesting, called the tablet market since the iPhone in life. There will be a Merry Christmas to someone, but it will be from Apple or Amazon?
