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Is there a tablet market?

Covart

Covart

Android Enthusiast
Or is it really just an iPad market. 9.25million iPads sold in the last quarter, according to the earnings call this afternoon.

Forcasts from Samsung, Motorola, Asus, Acer all seem to be pointing towards low end of 1 to 2 million, if that. RIM is already axing the Wifi Playbook.

Will Honeycomb 3.2 turn things around? It's not good to just have a one horserace. I can't stand the crappy camera's on the iPad, although I have jailbroken mine to give me nearly everything Android has to offer. Without Google pushing Apple, i'd be afraid, little would move forward to give iOS consumers the things they will be getting in iOS5, like BB messaging Android notifications and so on...

Seriously Google, get your sh!t together with Honeycomb and the manufacturers!
 
Covart said:
Or is it really just an iPad market. 9.25million iPads sold in the last quarter, according to the earnings call this afternoon.

Forcasts from Samsung, Motorola, Asus, Acer all seem to be pointing towards low end of 1 to 2 million, if that. RIM is already axing the Wifi Playbook.

Will Honeycomb 3.2 turn things around? It's not good to just have a one horserace. I can't stand the crappy camera's on the iPad, although I have jailbroken mine to give me nearly everything Android has to offer. Without Google pushing Apple, i'd be afraid, little would move forward to give iOS consumers the things they will be getting in iOS5, like BB messaging Android notifications and so on...

Seriously Google, get your sh!t together with Honeycomb and the manufacturers!
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The blame cannot be placed on Google. Google releases Android, the manufacturers grab android and bloat it up with skins and useless apps.

When Google releases a new version of Android the manufacturers have to grab and it and "tweak" it again.. if they can. Motorola kept promising the Cliq 2 users that they would get android 1.6. And they kept promising.. and kept promising. Then Motorola came out and said "sorry, skinning 1.6 is too much work so you're all stuck on 1.5." This is why I'll never buy another Motorola phone.

If manufacturers would stop bloating android up with skins and useless crap we would definitely be getting updates.. and a lot faster. Ever try to completely change the theme on a Sense phone? Blame the manufacturers for slow updates and fragmentation.

What Google needs to do is tell the manufacturers "you are no longer allowed to add anything to or remove anything from Android." That, of course, would not apply to the developer community so android would still be "open". It would also make it a lot easier on those of us who develop apps and themes.

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Agreed. Google launches the Android OS, but manufacturers make a lot of changes on it. Of course change is not a bad thing if it's worked in appropriate ways and not changed too much. But we can see some modifications made by manufacturers are not very good even useless. That's annoying, sometimes.
 
Covart said:
Or is it really just an iPad market. 9.25million iPads sold in the last quarter, according to the earnings call this afternoon.

Forcasts from Samsung, Motorola, Asus, Acer all seem to be pointing towards low end of 1 to 2 million, if that. RIM is already axing the Wifi Playbook.
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It is an iPad market. Android will catch up, I suspect, but for now, iPad rules the market. Either Apple will introduce the iPad 3 that everyone wants, or Android will arrive on a device that catches fire, or some people in a garage will develop something that makes it the number one seller.
 
It was just yesterday that my sister called and exclaimed just how hard she fell for the ipad2, and that I had to talk her down from that $500 ledge.

J/K, I did point her to a few gadget/mobile sites though for her reference. But yes, the latest news re: apple's gains were insane.

The tablet market is only just getting started it seems. Based on the rest of the year's release(s) anyway.
 
Besides getting more developers making more apps, I don't know what else Google could do. I got the Asus eee transformer yesterday and I love it and it doesn't seem to be missing anything for me and the apps that are available are really great. And the coming 3.2 update will only make it better.
 
Stuntman said:
I saw this article a few days ago: Android tablets now 30% of the market, Windows tablets outsold PlayBook in Q2

It claims that Android has 30% of the market now. Not sure exactly what to make of it. I personally was surprised that the number is so high so soon. I didn't expect these numbers until next year.
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Android doesn't have 30% of the tablet market. That 30% is tables shipped not sold. Apple has around 90% plus marker share of tablets sold right now and IMO will keep it. I see the table market being just like the MP3 market. People aren't buying Android, Blackberry or HP tablets and developers aren't developing for those platforms. I believe Apple had 2,000 tablet apps ready when the iPad came out. Android still doesn't have 2,000 tablet apps.

The only way I see Android tablets taking off is if they become super cheap but if that happen how is the manufacturer going to make any money?
 
The Tablet situation is a repeat of what happen in 2008. With Apple starting strong and Android rising to the occasion. There is already precedent for Android to overtake the Tablet market in 2015. Which, is about the same amount of time it took for Android phone sales to over-take Apple phone sales. Why do you think Apple is suing anyone & everyone? They're scared. The iPad/iPhone are great products, I've even considering getting one in the past. However if you want a fully customizable device, Android is the way to go. Android is freedom to do what you want, and people like freedom.
 
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