In light of the enclosed report regarding Apple’s Tablet dominance slipping, the following points are worth noting: 1) With Amazon’s Kindle (obviously) geared towards the mass-market they face the challenge of DRM outside of America (in other words, their strongest link also being their weakest in and as far as their flagship US store has lots of international restrictions regarding content) which plays to Apple’s favor; 2) Samsung’s push continues to get hamstrung in the court of law (and public opinion outside of S. Korea where what the firm says is essentially the ‘gospel.’) Sidebar: it’s interesting how S. Korea went from essentially a nonexistent smartphone market to a critical mass of 10 million users within less than 2 years (after the iPhone was released there!) 3) Applications hold sway… period it, end of argument. Simply put: until another vendor (hint: Android; Windows Phone 7, etc.) can generate as much sustained interest in developing on Apple’s OS this entire argument is essentially moot. And, with 15 billion downloads (yes, billion) as of this past summer all of Cupertino’s competition has a lot of catching up to do in order to make their ‘me-too-Pad’ a genuine threat to the original kingpin.
(Source) PC World: http://goo.gl/2NOHA