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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 5720037" data-attributes="member: 7883">I didn't provide a link for that reference, as I didn't have one....whereas I had links for some of the other things I was pointing out, so I provided them.It's a valid point.  My understanding from Rubin's statement is that the 6 million he points two are activated devices.  Now, if a device is activated, and then replaced because something went wrong, that equates to 2 activations for 1 purchase.  But those are numbers I don't think anyone has.  Are failure rates ever released?There already are good Android tablets.  Galaxy Tab 10.1, ASUS Transformer, etc.  I use my Transformer pretty much every day for work, and I am able to do far more with it than my partners with their iPads.  I mean, the keyboards are slow for them, they don't find the note taking capabilities, even with a stylus, sufficient, and there are large numbers of websites that don't work correctly with them.It's reached the point that I'm the only one who ends up bringing my tablet to work.  They used theirs for about a month when they got them, and that's been it.You have to separate "selling at iPad levels" from whether or not the device is "good".Apple spends a significantly disproportionate amount of money on marketing their devices as compared to the Android tablets etc. and have achieved commensurate higher sales.  I can see Apple commercials for the iPad and/or iPhone come up 4 times an hour during prime time TV watching.  I get those commercials every bloody day, hour after hour from about 7 pm until 10 pm.  How many Samsung or ASUS commercials have I seen in the same time span?  Zero.....the only advertiser advertising to compete with Apple up here is RiM.....I see Playbook commercials, definitely.Now maybe that's my market...maybe the other manufacturers just don't advertise in Canada much, but they do in the U.S.  That I can't really attest to, as I don't watch TV in the U.S. <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=":)" />  All I can see is that from where I'm sitting, no commercials.Consequently, very little awareness.  I've even given my tablet to relatives to play with....some of whom have iPads and iPhones.  Comments I received?  Easy to use.  Seems to "do more than my iPad".  "Wish I saw this before buying my iPad".I'm *not* going to categorically state that the EEE Pad is a better device.  I think there are different consumers with different tastes and requirements.  But an inference that there are no good Android tablets is a little silly.  I *will* state the personal opinion that I think it's a very good device.  And that I've had several other people see it and be similarly impressed.But 100% I feel there's very little product awareness.  Many people will end up defaulting to the market leader, simply out of ignorance of alternative options.  Those same people who don't want to futz with their devices etc. also don't read up about the plethora of devices that are out there, and will end up buying what they've seen advertised and promoted.Banshee</blockquote>

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