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> And if they are kings, they're leading a dying kingdom. Have you seen the iPad sales numbers recently?

Here are the Q1 2012 numbers:

PC sales [1]: 88.9 million

iPad sales [2]: 11.8 million

About 13% as many iPad sales as PC sales. While the iPad sales are impressive, it doesn't seem like PCs are dying yet.

[1] http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1981717

[2] http://www.abiresearch.com/press/3919

What are the numbers for 2011?

How many of those PCs were sold to homes?

From a 0% to 13% in just 2 years sounds pretty good to me.

There is no denying that the traditional laptop/desktop market is slowly dying away due to the iPad (and soon Windows 8 tablets), but I don't understand why this should drive them to build a business only device. Microsoft is still a very consumer oriented company, in addition to their business "kingdom".

>> Have you seen the iPad sales numbers recently?

Another one living in Apple's reality distortion field.