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Calling Gardner into question, a look at the state of smartphones and putting a HAL 9000 in your dashboard.

It's Tuesday, March 4, 2014.

I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from Maco-S-Can.

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When the world wants to know how various tech hardware companies are doing in terms of sales and market share,

the world turns to such firms as I. D.C. and Gartner. So what does the world do when one of those firms is demonstrably

wrong? Apple Insider sort of forced readers to look at that question Monday when it looked at Gartner's latest tablet

numbers. The headline most sites took from the Gartner report was the

tablets running Android outsold iPads in 2013. That's notable because despite the spate of low-cost

Android-powered alternatives the iPad has held over 50% of yearly tablet sales

since its introduction in 2010.

Gartner did make it clear that Apple was still the top tablet manufacturer in 2013.

According to their numbers, Apple's iPads were still dominant with 36% of sales in 2013.

Samsung was second in terms of tablet sales with 19.1%.

Asuss was third with 5.6%, Amazon was fourth with 4.8%,

Lenova rounded out the top 5 with 3.3%.

Other name players such as Barnes and Noble with its nook and Microsoft with its surface ended up in the

tape together others pile, which was second by number with a combined 31% share.

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