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There’s a popular saying among lawyers: If the facts are on your side, pound the facts. If the law is on your side, pound the law. If neither is on your side, pound the table. Well, it seems to me Daniel Dilger at Apple Insider has simply done a little table pounding. Because the relevant facts or market trends are not on his side, he simply decided to question the motives, integrity and methodologies of the messengers.
Companies like Gartner make more money if their studies are impartial and scrupulously done. The idea that they should not include low-end tablets in a market share study of tablets is silly, and doing such a thing would probably cost them clients. A company like Rovio Mobile doesn’t care whether their next dollar for an Angry Birds sale comes from someone using a Hisense Sero tablet from Walmart or the priciest iPad Air. It’s all the same to them; the dollars are of equal worth.
Most things coming from an “insider” site that is heavily associated with a partial side should be taken with a heavy grain of salt – be it Apple Insider or Android Insider.
--Pat
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