What would happen if I went into Best Buy and asked for a PC, and then the salesman whips out an iPad and politely states, "Here you go.". I would simply ask for another salesman. If I asked for an iPad and they showed me a PC, the same would happen. ...No sale. Capish? What language are we talking here?
If a marketing research company wanted skew numbers to convince the public that Apple is more successful that it already is, then they could simply pollute terminology "PC" and claim that anything Apple makes is a PC. Viola, Apple is now selling many more PCs.
Android Phones could be called PCs as well, so what does that make Google?
Computers with Linux installed on them by their owners don't even count as PCs in traditional marketing speak. Or if they are counted, they are counted as Microsoft PCs. How can that be? Because there is no good way to measure the incredible success of Linux using traditional marketing methods based on revenue. It is also possible that marketing research companies would rather cater to the folks that pay them--the big vendors who pay for marketing "research". Marketing stats suggest the Windows is run on 95% of computers world-wide, this is obviously bunk.
Personally, I would call the iPad a "BIG skipper" and the iPhone a "little skipper". If I had either, I would toss them into the river to see how many times they skip before sinking into the murky depth. Apple sells "Skippers". The Skipper market is doing very well.
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