Wait, wait. So in a quarter where the newest iPad is 6 months old, there were less iPads sold than every Android tablet manufacturer in the world combined?
Apple is far from doomed. But those who were saying that Apple would dominate the tablet market forever were wrong. PS please don't answer "but look at the profits". They will come down too, as it's only right in a competitive market.
That is true. And is clearly true in the tablet space too (as well as PCs). It's just a lot more nuanced in both directions.
Android can have higher unit share and 'inferior' products while Apple can have higher profit share and the 'best' (single inflexible) product, almost indefinitely because they are satisfying different needs.
Which raises the question: where is there actual competition?
Clearly Samsung and Apple are competing for some of the same customers, but the overlap is small compared to the overall market.
"The iPad didn’t enter the tablet market. It created the tablet market. The iPad’s role in the tablet market much more closely resembles the iPod’s role in the digital music player market a decade ago than it does the iPhone’s role in the 2008 phone market."
http://daringfireball.net/2011/07/ipad_dominance
It was a popular meme among Apple fanboys a couple of years ago....