Apple iPad beats Android in tablet sales

Well that's no surprise.

TechSpot puts Android tablets in it's list of tech failures over the last decade:

http://www.techspot.com/guides/511-tech-fail/

I don't think the race is over yet though. Netbooks got crushed by tablets, it's only a number of time before some new piece of kit comes along to shake things up.
 
Need Asus Infinity 700 tablet to compete with iPad 3 (Full HD screen, real quad-core, etc, etc).

Android tablet manufacturers have been slow out of the blocks !

In the meantime I will wait for the Asus Zenbook (Ivy Bridge version) - great screen, backlit KB, etc, etc).

If I can find good software to replace iTunes I may even buy an iPad 3, although this is unlikely as I want 128GB on board (or an external flash card slot).
 
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With bigger screens and Ice Cream Sandwich the next gen Android smartphones are tablets. If you already have one of these devises, why would you need a tablet? A device for only watching movies and surfing the net seems a bit of an over kill
 
ZAFluffyBunny said:
With bigger screens and Ice Cream Sandwich the next gen Android smartphones are tablets. If you already have one of these devises, why would you need a tablet? A device for only watching movies and surfing the net seems a bit of an over kill
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Screen real estate and comfort I would say are the biggest factors.
 
SiriS said:
One can never rely on Android shipped stats as a gauge of sales...
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Can one rely on any company's stats about their sales figures?

SiriS said:
And it is a bit of a stretch to include the Kindle Fire in Android tablet figures, it really is a different class of device - and barely Android.



LOL
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If it's not Android, what is it?
 
Android has totally failed to respond to the iPad, both from a software and a hardware point of view. A tablet buyer (an average, mainstream buyer - possibly not a tech fundie with particular gripes or requirements) is going to look at the $400 price point and see an iPad2 and nothing competitive at that price; and at $500 the iPad3 and nothing even remotely close. And every time tablet makers start catching up with iPad a year later, Apple manages to release a new version that totally outclasses anything else on the market once again. It's a very dire situation.
 
cerebus said:
Android has totally failed to respond to the iPad, both from a software and a hardware point of view. A tablet buyer (an average, mainstream buyer - possibly not a tech fundie with particular gripes or requirements) is going to look at the $400 price point and see an iPad2 and nothing competitive at that price; and at $500 the iPad3 and nothing even remotely close. And every time tablet makers start catching up with iPad a year later, Apple manages to release a new version that totally outclasses anything else on the market once again. It's a very dire situation.
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The thing about this Android vs iOS battle is the apps, once you've invested in apps for a specific OS you aren't going to switch easily... (which is why you get such passionate fanbois from both sides)

Android seems to be focusing on smart phones, which will cause a lot more people to invest in android apps which will inevitably make them choose an android tab when they one day decide to buy a tablet... if I was samsung or whoever I would try dominate the smart phone market for now and when tablet tech starts to stagnate release a tablet with iPad beating specs at a much lower price point.

But they can't take too long because once someone buys an iPad they aren't likely to buy anything else...
 
doobyscoo said:
The thing about this Android vs iOS battle is the apps, once you've invested in apps for a specific OS you aren't going to switch easily... (which is why you get such passionate fanbois from both sides)

Android seems to be focusing on smart phones, which will cause a lot more people to invest in android apps which will inevitably make them choose an android tab when they one day decide to buy a tablet... if I was samsung or whoever I would try dominate the smart phone market for now and when tablet tech starts to stagnate release a tablet with iPad beating specs at a much lower price point.

But they can't take too long because once someone buys an iPad they aren't likely to buy anything else...
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I don't fully agree, but the trouble is that iPad is just too strong an offering for people to be motivated to change. And yes I suppose adoption and lethargy does set in as long as Apple keeps putting the good stuff in the IV drip. The real issue is qualitative though. No other tablet is as good as the iPad.
 
 
The Kindle Fire is a tablet computer version of Amazon.com's Kindle e-bookreader.
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Like all wikipedia articles, you don't know who wrote them. If you believe the above statement, I can't help you. An Android tablet (or any other tablet for that matter) is *not* a tablet version of the Kindle. The Kindle is a book reader. The Fire could be used as a book reader.
 
BigAl-sa said:
Like all wikipedia articles, you don't know who wrote them. If you believe the above statement, I can't help you. An Android tablet (or any other tablet for that matter) is *not* a tablet version of the Kindle. The Kindle is a book reader. The Fire could be used as a book reader.
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Yes, but strawman. Isn't the Android on Kindle a highly customised version? Can you download apps from Google Play?
 
SiriS said:
Yes, but strawman. Isn't the Android on Kindle a highly customised version? Can you download apps from Google Play?
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Sure as long as you install the google play store, the only apps that won't work are apps that call on the GPS, camera or microphone since amazon didn't include those API's as none of that hardware is present on the device.
 
MattyW said:
Sure as long as you install the google play store, the only apps that won't work are apps that call on the GPS, camera or microphone since amazon didn't include those API's as none of that hardware is present on the device.
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I stand corrected then.

Interesting article, also mentions the forking -

Kindle Fire now #1 Android tablet, Google control over Android ecosystem could lessen - http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/04/amazons-kindle-fire-now-the-1-android-tablet.ars
 
SiriS said:
Yes, but strawman. Isn't the Android on Kindle a highly customised version? Can you download apps from Google Play?
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You need a very minor hack to access Google Market. I have a Prestigio Multitab, and the OS on that is just as customized as the Fire. For that matter, the Android on my Sony X10 phone has been even more customized by Sony, and they don't even support it anymore. (IMO, that's the biggest shortcoming of Android devices)
 
For a non-Android tablet my Kindle Fire is running Ice Cream Sandwich surprisingly well next to me here.
 
cerebus said:
Android has totally failed to respond to the iPad, both from a software and a hardware point of view
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That's not really true?

I could probably list 10 things (software) the iPad can't do ... But we all know the reply. So certainly wrong on the software side!

As for hardware, remember they were the only tablet running a sub 1Mb camera in 2012 ... And they weren't the first with LTE, faster processors or anything. Seems like its only the screen?
 
Dolby said:
That's not really true?

I could probably list 10 things (software) the iPad can't do ... But we all know the reply. So certainly wrong on the software side!

As for hardware, remember they were the only tablet running a sub 1Mb camera in 2012 ... And they weren't the first with LTE, faster processors or anything. Seems like its only the screen?
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None of those things have had even a fractional impact on the market. Impact is in consumer perspective and dollars. So like I say, fundies and so on can point out aspects where Android has superseded IOS - from my perspective ICS is far better than IOS 5.1 - but nobody is buying it, at least in tablet form.
 
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