Android with nearly 50% tablet market share!

[Dari]

I do not believe those numbers. 25% of Americans do not have tablets.

 

[3chordcharlie]

It's pretty hard to believe half of all tablets are android tablets. The iPad just dominates the tablet space. Not really surprising seeing just how terrible the Galaxy Tab is. It wasn't until the Transformer Prime that something came close to the iPad. The Kindle Fire sold well cause it was cheap. It was just as bad as the Gtab.

The Nexus 7 and TF Prime are probably the closes things you can get to the quality of the ipad. We will have to see how the new Kindle HD's perform.

I'm speaking independant of the OS here. Just hardware. I haven't had the pleasure of using a TF700 yet so I can't comment on the display.

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Taking everything you just said as given, you're leaving out 'price'.

Apple would love to milk a few more months, or a year or two out of 'dominating the tablet space'.

But they are not going to own that market long-term because they are charging a 50-100% 'Apple Premium' that the competition does not charge.

It would be shocking to see Apple maintain a long-run market share over 25% in rich countries, and 10% in poorer ones. Which is just fine with them, because that's how they roll.

 

[Bateluer]

Now you see why Apple was waging the litigation war. They saw this coming and wanted to stop the competition from driving them into the minority again.

 

[lothar]

I do not believe those numbers. 25% of Americans do not have tablets.

I'm surprised that only you and I in this thread are questioning that statistic.

 

[Bateluer]

I'm surprised that only you and I in this thread are questioning that statistic.

How many own more than 1 though? I'd wager probably quite a few people bought a Kindle Fire, probably more than 1.

 

[vi edit]

People must be afraid to show them in public then because my anecdotal evidence is something to the effect of 500:1 iPad to Android.

I've literally seen 4 android tablets and not a single Kindle Fire in the wild.

 

[ITHURTSWHENIP]

Seriously guys? This is data based on a survey. And they dont tell us anything about the sample size or other variables that were used either

 

[Red Storm]

People must be afraid to show them in public then because my anecdotal evidence is something to the effect of 500:1 iPad to Android.

I've literally seen 4 android tablets and not a single Kindle Fire in the wild.

Here's my own anecdotal evidence. In our main office we have about 30 people. Two people have iPads, and six people have Kindle Fires. I actually asked the Kindle owners why they went with the Kindle, and they all said that price was a big reason why.

 

[Phokus]

People must be afraid to show them in public then because my anecdotal evidence is something to the effect of 500:1 iPad to Android.

I've literally seen 4 android tablets and not a single Kindle Fire in the wild.

Here's my anecdotal evidence:

1 person, out of 30 people on my office floor has an iphone. Everyone else has android/blackberry. Therefore, Apple has like nothing in terms of market share for smartphones.

My anecdotal evidence is just as good as your anectdotal evidence.

 

[TuxDave]

Here's my own anecdotal evidence. In our main office we have about 30 people. Two people have iPads, and six people have Kindle Fires. I actually asked the Kindle owners why they went with the Kindle, and they all said that price was a big reason why.

I can see that. $199 can be a good price point for an expensive toy. $499 better be completely useful as a laptop replacement and so far I don't think any tablet can do that. I'm hoping Win8 tablets change that.

 

[ControlD]

I can see that. $199 can be a good price point for an expensive toy. $499 better be completely useful as a laptop replacement and so far I don't think any tablet can do that. I'm hoping Win8 tablets change that.

I agree with that. I am holding off on an upgrade from my original iPad for just that reason. If I can truly replace my home laptop with a tablet then I will jump on it in a heartbeat. My iPad is a great toy, but a toy is all it really is. Our Kindle Fire is pretty much the same.

 

[badb0y]

Apple will always drop in marketshare because there are so many more Android tablets at so many price points.

Also nowadays the most popular Android tablets are in the $200-$300 range which Apple doesn't compete in.....yet.

 

[badb0y]

Double post..

 

[Hmoobphajej]

If I was to have a tablet I wouldn't be walking around with it. Since I am a college student there would be some perks to carrying it to class as most of my books are pdfs. But at the same time I would never openly use it. It's just impractical to me. It has it's uses and most likely I would be in the library using it, at home using it, or somewhere more private. So we just have to look at the right places.

 

[cheezy321]

This is the worst survey ive ever seen. BS that android, even with kindle included, is even close to 50% marketshare.

That being said, I just bought myself a Galaxy Tab 2 7" today.

 

[Eug]

Personally, I don't think the Amazon Fire really counts as Android. It IS Android, but it doesn't actually have any access to the Android market.

Also, while noname Android machines are running Android, I'm not sure how much they "count" either if they can't access the Play store.

It'd be nice to see someone do a breakdown which listed the proportion of:

Amazon
Android noname
Skinned Android
Stock Android
etc.

You can't dispute that iPad is the best tablet on the market. It is bulkier/heavier than 7" tablets, but the screen estate and better legibility certainly makes up for it and them some. Hardware-wise, it is the best, by far.

I dispute it. I own an iPad and a Nexus 7. I prefer the Nexus 7 by far, no contest. However, give me a iPad mini, and it'd be a much closer fight.

 

[lopri]

Originally Posted by lopri
You can't dispute that iPad is the best tablet on the market. It is bulkier/heavier than 7" tablets, but the screen estate and better legibility certainly makes up for it and them some. Hardware-wise, it is the best, by far.

I dispute it. I own an iPad and a Nexus 7. I prefer the Nexus 7 by far, no contest. However, give me a iPad mini, and it'd be a much closer fight.

Well, I kind of regret making a definitive statement like that now, but I don't think you are exactly disputing my assertion. It sounds to me like you simply prefer 7" tablets to 9.5" ones. Obviously both have relative (dis)advantages to each other.

I do not know why/how some think iPad's handling of PDF is poor, however. (compared to Nexus 7?) Or Webpages/books for that matter. I have not experienced any problem reading PDF on iPad. Most business or academic PDF documents are 9.5" x 11.0" (A4), and you cannot fit a full page on a 7" tablet. (You can, but then I have to zoom around because the letters are way too small) On iPad, an A4 page fits comfortably and I can read documents/books page-by-page without zooming or going landscape mode. Ditto for many web sites, to a lesser degree.

But for reading books (paperback sized), 7" is great. It's light and you don't need two hands. I still have the original kindle by my night stand and read books in the bed occasionally.

 

[lothar]

This is the worst survey ive ever seen. BS that android, even with kindle included, is even close to 50% marketshare.

That being said, I just bought myself a Galaxy Tab 2 7" today.

If you're being serious, then that means it's time for Phokus and Bateluer to buy an iPad.

 

[lothar]

When Google says "x" hundred thousand or million Androids are being activated daily, are they including Amazon's numbers in that statistic?

 

[cheezy321]

If you're being serious, then that means it's time for Phokus and Bateluer to buy an iPad.

Yep totally serious. Been playing with it so far and its not too shabby.

Its not like I haven't had android products before. I owned a Droid X, had a touchpad for a little bit (which is probably not the best indicator of android) and now I have a Gtab.

That being said, Flipboard is a travesty on the gtab compared to the iPad version. They need to fix it ASAP