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Originally Posted by AustinChief
I don't think you are getting the point here... you have some pretty serious Apple fanboi tunnel-vision going on.
The point is... a bunch of you said the iPhone will always dominate the market ... etc etc and a bunch of us predicted it would follow the path that MACs did and end up at 15%... well, we were right. Now the exact same thing is going to happen with iPads.
The only market that Apple will hold a share higher than 20% in is the MP3 player market.. a market that is quickly going away entirely.
In Apple's defense, they are perfectly happy to sit at 15% and make scads of money.
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I agree with you on the smartphone aspect here, and I've not argued such about phones. But I still disagree with the tablet market. If Apple ever drops below 50% in the tablet market in the next few years, I'll be very surprised. Despite tablet app or specification differences, Apple's rep and marketing is too strong to slip to a bunch of Android devices for quite some time.
Regarding the smartphone development, I did find this site, which I thought laid out smartphone development pretty well. It does indeed support your claims for the smartphone market, and predicts that Android market will have more apps than App Store market by mid-2012.
https://www.mylookout.com/appgenome/
But as it stands, I don't find the tablet market directly comparable to the smartphone market. Not yet at least. In a few years, maybe.... But as of a month ago, Android market only had 16 available apps specifically designed for Honeycomb tablets, which weren't a blown-up version of a smartphone app. EDIT: Looks like it's went up a few:
https://market.android.com/details?i...start=0&num=24