Market Share for Apple iPad

This is an interesting bit of market share information on Apple's iPad:

"Citing an absence of competitors offering applications and content that can match those of Apple, iSuppli forecasts that the iPad will account for 74.1% of global tablet shipments in 2010. Even after rivals beef up their tablet offerings and related services, iSuppli expects that the iPad will still hold 61.7% of the market in 2012."

Osawa, Juro (2010), "Toshiba to Launch New Tablet Computer," The Wall Streel Journal, Sept. 3.

The App Store is driving market share. However, the prospect that Google's Chromium OS will allow for a netbook operating system to reside on the Internet is a development to watch because if it works the cost to produce netbooks will become much less.