∞ iPad generated $9.5 billion in revenue; everyone else $34 million

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We all knew the iPad was dominant last year. It leads in market share and the mind share of consumers, but what about financially.

[ad#Google Adsense 300x250 in story]According to a new report released today, spending on media tablets in 2010 was $9.6 billion. Of that, Apple’s iPad accounted for $9.566 billion — everyone else accounted for a combined $34 million.

That’s quite a gap and quite a lead for Apple, especially as we enter a time when more tablets are going to be released.

In the past little while, Motorola released the Xoom, Samsung has the Galaxy Tab and of course there is RIM. The PlayBook is due to arrive next month, but so far, it’s hard to imagine there is anything on the market that will overtake the iPad.

Apple sold about 15 million iPads in its first year on the market and the company just launched its second version. As with the first iPad, the iPad 2 was met with lines of people looking to purchase it.

Update: Updated the number for everyone else from $34,000 to $34 million.


  • DocRoss

    I think your decimal point is in the wrong place with the $34k number. It should be $34,000,000. Still puny compared to $9+ Billion, but still…

  • http://twitter.com/scottaw scott

    I realize I’m a mathematical idiot, but 9.6 billion – 9.566 billion = 34 million. There’s still 6 zeroes after the difference of 96 – 9566 and before the decimal.

  • Anonymous

    This makes the whiners who complained that Steve Jobs said iPad had over 90% market share look even more pathetic. IDC said Apple had 83% but that counted other tablet inventory as sales. Here, we see actual sales, and it turns out that nobody but Apple is selling tablets. Jobs was kind to Android saying they had 100 tablet apps. Even today it is only 20. The whiners complained that Jobs used a Samsung quote that said their tablet sales were small. Guess what? They were small.

    There should be a moratorium on talk of a “tablet market” until somebody other than Apple sells 1 million of any one device. There is just way too much hot air.

    PlayBook has the same price points as iPad, but PlayBook has half the screen size, so it is actually much more expensive.

  • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

    This really puts this Microsoft dude’s comment into perspective: “I dunno how long tablets will stay with us, eh?”

    Sorry but trying to convince yourself that a market will be irrelevant soon isn’t going to help the company in the long run.

  • Anonymous

    ….but, I thought sales of the Galaxy Tab were “smooth”??

    • Link

      Smooth as in flat surface, flat. Flat out smooth.