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iPad market share rises

September 14, 2011

So much for the iPad killers: Apple managed to gain market share in tablets at the very time that many of its new competitors were supposed to be taking that share away, IDC said Wednesday. Having full access to data from the past spring, it found that the iPad had gained share, moving up from [...]

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Is the App Store heading for legal trouble?

November 13, 2009

Fraser Speirs thinks yes, and I think he might be right. Last year I posed a simple question: “But what happens if Apple’s market share grows to the point where it has a monopoly – 70-, 80- or even 90% market share? That might take ten years, but it’s certainly not beyond the realms of [...]

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John Gruber questions NPD figures, just as NPD figures turn against Apple

March 25, 2009

Having seen the NPD report which claimed Apple’s retail market share has dropped, John Gruber takes issue: “It’s never been clear to me why reports like this are reported as fact. NPD doesn’t have some sort of magic access to Apple’s sales numbers, and Apple does not release monthly sales data.” Which is interesting, given [...]

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