ASUS chairman Johnny Shih claimed second place in the tablet market based on what he knew of its own Eee Pad Transformer numbers and the industry. He along with CEO Jerry Shen expected the Eee Pad Transformer to be the second-most popular tablet after the iPad and would push pas expectations with 300,000 shipped in June. The company had shipped 400,000 of the Android tablets between April and May, a third more than the 300,000 it had expected.
