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Wait, wait. So in a quarter where the newest iPad is 6 months old, there were less iPads sold than every Android tablet manufacturer in the world combined? APPLE IS DOOMED
Apple is far from doomed. But those who were saying that Apple would dominate the tablet market forever were wrong. PS please don't answer "but look at the profits". They will come down too, as it's only right in a competitive market.
And then you read the last paragraph and wonder why you just wasted your time with this linkbait article.
>And while Android appears to be making headway against Apple and the iPad, the truth is that Apple remains the top selling tablet brand by a huge margin. While Apple sold the aforementioned 14.5 million tablets from April through June, Samsung was the closest competitor to the Cupertino based manufacturer with 8.1 million tablets sold. in the period.
The tablet market is not like the phone market. In many ways, it will be easier for Android to gain market share, since the channel isn't controlled by carriers in some markets. Any OEM can enter this business, and many many will. Tablets are the post PC device, and the skip-the-PC device. Tablets will be the inexpensive personal internet access device for Asian markets that now rely on internet cafes. Apple will tak…
It really depends what people mean by "post".
If it's post as in "will replace", then it's nonsense: laptops and desktops are going to be around for a very long time.
If it's "will complement the laptop/desktop market", then I completely agree.
The tablet market is not like the phone market. In many ways, it will be easier for Android to gain market share, since the channel isn't controlled by carriers in some markets. Any OEM can enter this business, and many many will. Tablets are the post PC device, and the skip-the-PC device. Tablets will be the inexpensive personal internet access device for Asian markets that now rely on internet cafes. Apple will tak…
Stories like this are interesting me because while sales numbers show Android doing well, usage numbers from all over the internet seem to indicate that not many people are actually using their Android tablets, at least not in the numbers people are using iPads. And then you read the last paragraph and wonder why you just wasted your time with this linkbait article. > And while Android appears to be making headway ag…
That's not true. US usage figures don't match up with global sales and people forget there's a big non-US world out there:
http://www.tech-thoughts.net/2013/08/reality-android-tablet-...
Also note that usage is a trailing indicator of sales since previously sold devices are still in use.
I own an Asus TS300 tablet, and one thing comes to my mind, Android is mediocre, I've tried the iPad and the Surface and their quality is 10 times better, so I presume this numbers are due the cheap $59 tablets that have become popular, but just for the price.
The tablet market is not like the phone market. In many ways, it will be easier for Android to gain market share, since the channel isn't controlled by carriers in some markets. Any OEM can enter this business, and many many will. Tablets are the post PC device, and the skip-the-PC device. Tablets will be the inexpensive personal internet access device for Asian markets that now rely on internet cafes. Apple will tak…
"Cooperating apps" is the key here, I think. I think it's idiotic that iPad is yet to have some semblance of an operating system.
In theory, I could do the same on an iPad, but it would be a really convoluted string of passing that file from app to app, as appose of have that file in one place and using different apps as tools, to work on that file.
With all the hard work apple is doing trying to make OSX users think that their hard drive starts at the ~/ folder, I don't expect full system excess here, just a Document folder and a Finder.app to manage it.
Wait, wait. So in a quarter where the newest iPad is 6 months old, there were less iPads sold than every Android tablet manufacturer in the world combined? APPLE IS DOOMED
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple is far from doomed. But those who were saying that Apple would dominate the tablet market forever were wrong. PS please don't answer "but look at the profits". They will come down too, as it's only right in a competitive market.
I don't think anyone of note has said Apple will dominate the tablet market forever.