AFisher

Alright, first of all, that you do not understand the meaning of the word "estimate" is not on IDC or Gartner. That other "present this as fact" isn't on either 2 companies either and the fact that you blame them for making wrong estimates means you too take these numbers as fact (because otherwise there wouldn't be a problem here) and thus you are blaming other blogs for something you're doing yourself. The final image in this post is, by the way, rich. And for 2 reasons: 1. This post says companies do not disclose exact information about their sales and you blame IDC and Gartner for making estimates to compensate for that, but if these companies don't release such information, how did Apple get these numbers? How did Apple now Microsoft sold .3 million Surface Laptops? Allow me to tell you where they got those numbers: by estimating them. 2. You also blame IDC and Gartner for splitting up tablet and PC sales. Not only is that a ridiculous thing to blame them for (PC and phone sales don't get combined either, that would be nonsense and phones and tablets are closer related to each other than are PCs and tablets) but that final image from Apple themselves shows that not only do they not consider tablets to be PCs, they decided that they had to go with a submarket of "notebooks" which excludes desktops, 2-in-1s, etc. Apple doesn't even consider something everybody else sees as 1 market as just 1 market, they have to split it up so they can show that iPad is larger than the others. If they did, they would have a column that combines both Macs and iPads together but of course then they would no longer be the largest. If you want to talk about someone writing up a false narrative, how about starting with Apple? Hypocrisy much.