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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 5719619" data-attributes="member: 7883">Emphasis on "if", thanks.As to Android tablets, according to Andy Rubin (<a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/there-are-over-6-million-android-tablets-out-there-andy-rubin-28891/" target="_blank">http://www.androidauthority.com/there-are-over-6-million-android-tablets-out-there-andy-rubin-28891/</a>), there are 6 million of them out there, so the guestimate I threw out there, of 6 million, seems to fall in line with those numbers currently.........and Honeycomb has only been out 7 months, so we'll see where they're at in 4 more months.  Some of the best tablets for the OS, such as the Galaxy 10.1 and Transformer, as well as possibly the Sony tablets, have been out for a relatively short time.  Yes, the Transformer's been out since....April?  But it has very limited availability for much of this year.We can take another look in another 4 months, and see where things are at.  Maybe they'll be the same, maybe they won't.  Android started slow on phone as well, from what I understand, yet Given that Samsung alone has sold more Android ased phones than Apple has sold iPhones in Q3 of this year, apparently they've been catching up <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'll *generally* predict success for the open standard with multiple manufacturers over one company trying to push their own proprietary hardware/software combo, when it comes to long term success.I agree they won't touch Apple this year.  I think that's self evident.  They'd have to have one rockin' Q4 to catch up for this year.  However, they might very well finish with overall respectable numbers for a 12 month period.It's kind of useless trying to predict what will happen in any case.  What'll happen will happen.Some of the 2nd gen Android tablets are looking pretty nice...the new Toshiba one (the new one coming *after* the Thrive), as well as the Transformer 2.Banshee</blockquote>

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