the tablet war is heating up

[Alan Shutko]

And good luck getting the Apple product when it's released. When I got my iPhone 4, I couldn't even *get* one until November of 2010.....even though it was released in....what...June? July?

I had no problem getting the iPhone 4 on day one. Ok, the 11 hour line was a bit extreme.... (Seriously, I thought by getting there early it would be a few hours max... By noon, I'd been there long enough I was committed! And probably should have been committed....)

 

[Banshee16]

I had no problem getting the iPhone 4 on day one. Ok, the 11 hour line was a bit extreme.... (Seriously, I thought by getting there early it would be a few hours max... By noon, I'd been there long enough I was committed! And probably should have been committed....)

Kudos to you for patience. I've reached the point in my life that I'm "line averse". I think Boxing Day is the only thing I've been willing to wait in line for, the last few years, and I haven't even done that for 3 years. Nowadays, I just find the deals online, order through the websites, and then maybe go to the stores to check out additional deals....like at 11 am. No more standing in -20 C temperatures at 4 am to be first to get to something in the store.

I'm usually on the run, so if there's a line, I'm moving on. After that initial day, it was weeks of checking at the local stores to see if they got any inventory in. And it'd be hit or miss. You'd check every day, and there'd never be a shipment, then the one day you forget is the day they'd get 5 of them in, and they'd be sold out by 9:30 am.

Just not worth it to me.

Banshee

 

[Relique du Madde]

Things are getting interesting. 4Q'11 reports are indicating that Apple had 59% of the tablet market share, Android had 38%, and Windows 1%. Unknown is however, are the true numbers of each tablet in use.

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[Fast Learner]

Those are, as usual, iPads actually sold to consumers vs. Android (and Windows) tablets shipped to warehouses and stores. Same kind of numbers last summer, with sell-through on Android tablets coming in at about 10% of shipped.

Not super-interesting, imo.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Thats why I put down the last like "Its not know what are the true numbers of those in use because obviously iFans don't think any Android tablet are ever sold even thought they are.

 

[Fast Learner]

It's not a matter of being an "iFan", it's a matter of facts. You wrote "Apple had 59% of the tablet market share, Android had 38%", which is simply factually wrong.

If you said, for example, "Apple had 59% of the tablets shipped, Android had 38%," and then added the disclaimer about use then it might have been true, and certainly wouldn't have inspired comment by me, anyway.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Terminology is important.

Android grabs more tablet market share: survey - Yahoo! News

The shipped part does stand out.

But the other article notes that things are following the phone market where iphone is pretty much the bomb and the most sold phone but the phone o/s isn't kind, andoird is. Which is pretty much what a lot of people said when the whole thing started that underfunding by phone companies who, turns out do sell tablets, would help push android out further.

It'll be an interesting year with ipad 3 probably coming out latter on and some of the larger tablets hitting the stage. I like my Toshiba Thrive but do wish it was a little bigger for reading RPG pdfs.

Android tablets closing in on iPad: researcher - Yahoo! News

 

[Alan Shutko]

But the other article notes that things are following the phone market where iphone is pretty much the bomb and the most sold phone but the phone o/s isn't kind, andoird is.

We'll see. According to Good Technologies, iPad had 94.7% of total tablet activations. Android had 5.2%. (Good sells an alternative email infrastructure for enterprises, similar to Blackberry's BES.) Here's another report from Chitika showing the numbers of tablet ad impressions. The kicker is the most popular tablet is 2.4% of the iPad impressions. The four they listed total 5.75% of the iPad ad impressions.

This is where shipped vs sold is making the big difference. Android manufacturers are certainly stuffing tablets in the sales channel, but there's no evidence they're selling.

 

[JoeGKushner]

We'll see. According to Good Technologies, iPad had 94.7% of total tablet activations. Android had 5.2%. (Good sells an alternative email infrastructure for enterprises, similar to Blackberry's BES.) Here's another report from Chitika showing the numbers of tablet ad impressions. The kicker is the most popular tablet is 2.4% of the iPad impressions. The four they listed total 5.75% of the iPad ad impressions.

This is where shipped vs sold is making the big difference. Android manufacturers are certainly stuffing tablets in the sales channel, but there's no evidence they're selling.

I have been interested in how the enterprise has grown with the iphone and ipad. usually it used to be that I never heard about the apple products being in such use but its also good because competition is good.

 

[Banshee16]

We'll see. According to Good Technologies, iPad had 94.7% of total tablet activations. Android had 5.2%. (Good sells an alternative email infrastructure for enterprises, similar to Blackberry's BES.) Here's another report from Chitika showing the numbers of tablet ad impressions. The kicker is the most popular tablet is 2.4% of the iPad impressions. The four they listed total 5.75% of the iPad ad impressions.

This is where shipped vs sold is making the big difference. Android manufacturers are certainly stuffing tablets in the sales channel, but there's no evidence they're selling.

I checked the stats for a bunch of sites I've developed and Android tablets consistently come in at about 15% of all tablet traffic visitors. One site had them as 0% but the rest averaged between 15-20%.

It's obviously a smaller sample, but it's what I'm seeing.

The Playbook doesn't show up at all.

Banshee