Tablet Market Share
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- randommail
So is it really true that Android tablets have taken 27% market share from the iPad in just one year?
I don't believe. I live and work in NY and I have yet to actually see anyone using anything other than an iPad.
Where are all these supposed Android tablets? Are they used more in business and IT, not consumer?
- i_monk0
You may be citing a survey conducted in the UK only.
- Handel0
I agree. I have not yet seen one Android tablet in the flesh.
- detritus0
So much conjecture, so little contextual reference.
- monospaced0
I sometimes wonder if they're assuming marketshare by the deployment of devices to resellers, not the actual purchase of them. One study shows that 99% of all tablet web traffic is on iPads, so that definitely doesn't meet the marketshare numbers.
- Interesting point.
I wonder what happens to all the unsold inventory? It doesn't affect the initial market share number?randommail
- Interesting point.
- GeorgesII0
maybe you should stop hanging with goddammm hippsters!!!
jk
- randommail0
And you have to wonder what the business motive is behind developing and manufacturing new tablets at this point for companies such as RIM and Motorola? Why bother wasting time and money, both in the development and in marketing.
I guess there are the bargain plastic brands such as Asus and Acer though.- because Apple did it and it's now the future and they feel left-behind if they don't compete directlymonospaced
- GeorgesII0
ok, honestly, I commute every morning to work,
and I've seen my share of ipads, but also samsung galaxy both 7 and 10, asus transformer, I even saw a nook con the CM patch,6 months ago, most of the tablet I would see, would have been ipad,
but right now I see tons of kindles and other tablets I've no idea what brand they are,maybe you're just seeing ipads because you notice them, like those people that see 11:11 twice a day
- (btw: I have a broken android tablet + a hp touchpad running webos / CM)GeorgesII
- you can't really call e-readers tablets though... they're not quite teh same thingmonospaced
- I've seen plenty of Kindles out there. Even a Sony. I swear never a Nook though, haha!randommail
- also, broken Android tablet? how did that happen?monospaced
- my knee + my 95kg + tablet =/= loveGeorgesII
- http://www.qbn.com/t…GeorgesII
- Christa0
Article saying overall traffic is tilting away from IE due to tablet and smart phone devices--- IE dips below 50%. If only that browser would just die. http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/03/te…
- orrinward20
I see plenty of Android tablets on my commute.
I live in a poorer area and there are plenty of Andy-tab users on my way into work.
- I REPEAT MYSELF!orrinward2
- are you saying Android tablets are for poor people?monospaced
- They certainly appeal to the less affluent market.orrinward2
- I certainly couldn't justify £500 for a toy to keep me entertaine don my 25 minute commute.orrinward2
- exactly, I use mine to mainly read comic and listen to music,GeorgesII
- Christa0
- These do not even claim to refer to usage. It just say Top 9 with no actual reference.monospaced
- i_monk0
^ What counts as "Android"? I've never once used the default browser on my Galaxy S2, I use Dolphin HD.
