[citation][nom]fyasko[/nom]apple does have the best tablet and the best phone. which is unfortunate for users... the alternatives are frightening as of now. i hope windows 8 forces tablet makers to compete with the ipad.[/citation]
Huh, I have a Droid X, have no problems with it, fast, stable, big screen, can download apps, browse web, check email, etc, etc ... iPhone has less features (hardware) but more apps but I don't usually put to much time into apps except for the Nook App and a few games. There are far more choices on the market for phones right now than the iPhone and many of them have more features, better hardware and even some with good polish. Apple no longer has the best phone, it is just "a" phone. Android phones are the number 1 selling phones in the world, iPhone has just been in the market longer.
As to tablets, there are now a few good Honeycomb tablets out there other than the XOOM which when it was first released was only 3G. Personally, I think that hurt the XOOM sales more than anything. No one wants to pay a monthly service plan for a tablet when they are already doing so for their phone. A large number of ipad sales are wifi only, so until the wifi only tablets came out iPad still had very little competiton in the market. Plus the XOOM was a verizon only product vs spread around the retail market. Until Honeycomb tablets are in Walmart, Target, etc you will still see their sales as low.
Also, an observation about retail. I went to Bestbuy to check out the new Acer Honeycomb tablet. The iPad is right in the isle in the Mac section. Easy to find. Then you have 5 - 6 small tablets in the mobile section on the isle. But the Acer Honeycomb tablet, the only tablet in the store that spec wise is even a match for the iPad was on the back walls near the monitors in the PC section. Product placement is big, until the Honeycomb vendors put some thought into how they place their devices in stores with the retailers, they will have limited success. If the Acer was across the isle from the iPad, and all someone has to do is turn around to look at it, it would have greater impact since its features (hardware better than iPad) and price (less than comparable iPad) is very competitive.