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Jerome	2008-04-12 , 06:19
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Originally Posted by meanwhile

Another good tool to use is Froogle - see how many places sell a product, then watch the ones that show inventory. You have to weight by various factors to do with outlet size and specialization, so you get a very fuzzy answer, but this is a lot better than listening to what people want you to believe for their own purposes. Doing this got me an estimate of a few thousand Nit's a year sold in the UK.

This is not necessarily incompatible with 300K units sold worldwide (US and Europe together have about 10 times the population of the UK).

Maybe we should compare with sales of smartphones. In 2006, there were 71 millions smartphones sold worldwide, more than half from Nokia. Incidently, the US smartphone market was about 6 millions that year, but about doubled in 2007. Of course, the Nokia tablets are not sold worldwide (they are absent from the huge Chinese market which was 10 millions phones in 2006 and 14 in 2007, and from the even bigger Japanese market, which totals a third of smartphone sales, for example), so a figure of over a million sold leads to the tablet grabbing a sizeable percentage of the smartphone market, at least 2%. I find it hard to believe that.

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