the tablet war is heating up

[Banshee16]

Interesting....no use in Canada, but good for those in the U.S. Staples is running a $100 off coupon for all Android tablets except the Nook, until the end of July.

Staples giving $100 off select tablets, what will you be buying? | Android Central

Banshee

 

[falcarrion]

I now see that Levovo has 3 tablets coming out . 2 android and one windows 7.

http://www.technobuffalo.com/mobile...ablets-first-tablets-to-be-netflix-certified/

 

[IronWolf]

An Article from PC Mag:

Apple Loses Tablet OS Share in Q2, Android Picks it Up

 

[Fast Learner]

As usual with these articles, those numbers are number of iPads actually sold to people and the Android tablet numbers are the number shipped to stores.

Based on Google's own number of tablets running their OS -- both the 3.x tablet OSes and the 2.x non-tablet OSes running on tablets -- that have been purchased by humans and are actually being used, the market share is currently 95.5% iPad and 4.5% Android.

It'll be fascinating to see the real sales numbers of Android tablets after a couple of quarters so the "correction" can be made in Samsung, etc.'s quarterly earnings reports, especially after Christmas, and especially now that Apple has finally caught up on iPad production.

 

[falcarrion]

Here is the same info in a different article.
iPad Maintains Lead In Global Tablet Shipment | PadGadget

It is intresting how the title of the article gives you a diffrent impresion.

 

[falcarrion]

and here is a third version of the same info.

Research Firm Claims iPad Only Has 61% of Tablet Market - Mac Rumors

 

[JoeGKushner]

The growth of the android operating system seems to be the sticking point.

iPad looks like, to me at least, it will 'always' be #1 individual unit but in terms of O/S that android will continue to catch up and perhaps surpass it although no individual single model will do the same.

 

[falcarrion]

The growth of the android operating system seems to be the sticking point.

iPad looks like, to me at least, it will 'always' be #1 individual unit but in terms of O/S that android will continue to catch up and perhaps surpass it although no individual single model will do the same.

I agree that Android will grow in the percent of tablets sales. It seems every week now we see new tablets coming out.
Even though I will not be able to go to Gencon. I would realy like to see how many people will be using tablets.

 

[Banshee16]

Almost feels like Mac vs. PC again....except it's iOS vs. Android. The manner in which the market breaks down may go the same way this time, as there are a lot of parallels between Andoid and DOS/Windows.

Banshee

 

[IronWolf]

I agree that Android will grow in the percent of tablets sales. It seems every week now we see new tablets coming out.
Even though I will not be able to go to Gencon. I would realy like to see how many people will be using tablets.

I saw several at Origins when I was playing Pathfinder Society games. Books and paper still outnumbered tablet users, but I has at least one person at my table using an iPad to run his whole character and I had mine with some of the Pathfinder sourcebooks so I didn't have to lug the actual hardcover books to the con.