  Still a long way from iPad sales figures         Source: Wall
Street Journal  Comments     Threshold   By melgross on
10/31/2012 4:02:07 PM , Rating: 1 Don't believe all you read
about marketshare. For one, as we can see here, many of those
numbers don't have the meaning you think they do. This article
has confabulated the numbers. Somehow, as seems to happen all
over, the word sold has been substituted for the word shipped,
which is what Asus is actually claiming.  As we should all know
by now, few companies sell as many devices as they ship. Last
year, Asus was thought to be shipping 750 thousand tablets a
month, but it was found to be incorrect, and most of what was
shipped was sold off in the EU at bargain basement prices, as
has happened to a number of other tablets, including Acer,
during the same time frame.  In addition, when most companies
use the words shipped, or sold, they are talking about
distributers, retailers, and carriers, not end users. We don't
know how many of those devices make it into