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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
I'd like to point out that those numbers are not market share, they are ownership.[...]
Let's say that there are approximately 250 million adults in the US.
According to the data in 2011, 11% of them owned tablets, so 27.5 million (22.275 mil ipad, 4.125 mil Android, 1.1 mil other).
According to the data in 2012, 22% of them owned tablets, so 55 million (28.6 mil ipad, 26.4 mil Android of which 11.55 mil Kindle fire).
Does this sound right?
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Nope, as that would mean that Apple only sold ~6.5m iPads in the US in a year, which isn't right.
We know from released court documents that Apple sold over 10m iPads in the US in the first two quarters of 2012:
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/08/10/...in-court-case/
I suspect that the figures are actually %age of current sales, not %age of ownership. At the end of Q2 2012 Apple had sold a total of 34m iPads in the US. That is a pretty big head start in total ownership.