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Android tablets to pass the iPad this year

Tablets running the Android operating system will overtake the iPad this year for the first time, according to a new report from research firm IDC. IDC says a growing variety of smaller and cheaper Android tablets will gain significant traction in the consumer marketplace this year and begin to erode the dominance of Apple's iPad.

The iPad has reigned supreme in the tablet market since it launched in 2010.
 
While sales and shipments of the iPad and iPhone are expected to grow at impressive rates, lower-cost Android tablets will become huge sources of growth for companies such as Samsung.
 
According to IDC, iPad shipments are expected to make up 46% of the tablet market for 2013, down from 51% in 2012. Tablets running Android are expected to increase their market share to 49% in 2013, up from 42% in 2012. The smaller screen market is expected to grow rapidly in the tablet segment.

"One in every two tablets shipped this quarter was below 8 inches in screen size. And in terms of shipments, we expect smaller tablets to continue growing in 2013 and beyond," IDC said in a press release.

While Android tablets are expected to be one of the biggest movers in the tablet market, IDC is predicting that Microsoft will grow its market share in the tablet market as well. IDC says that during 2012 the Windows 8 tablet platform had only 1% of the market. By 2017, the research firm predicts that Microsoft will grow its share the tablet market to 7.4%.
 
Some are also expecting a similar decline in sales for the iPhone in the smartphone industry as popular Android-powered devices from Samsung flood the market.

Analyst Peter Misek from Jefferies compared Apple to BlackBerry this week saying that the iPhone was on the offensive against Samsung Android-powered smartphones.
 
"Historically when handset makers fall out of favor (e.g., the Razr, Blackberry, HTC) they fall faster/further than expected," said Misek.

Sources: Reuters, IDC


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By hughlle on 3/13/2013 9:34:55 AM , Rating: 4
While they make you cringe, they make others very happy. I've seen plenty of people using them seemingly happily, and one of the reasons for people buying them is that they can't afford anything but a chinese knockoff.

what does it matter if it makes you cringe if they do their job for other people? I could say the ipad makes me cringe, it doesn't mean my personal view changes the reality of the situation.


By Cheesew1z69 on 3/13/2013 9:41:43 AM , Rating: 4
quote:
what does it matter if it makes you cringe if they do their job for other people?
Because it's not his precious...Apple.


By xti on 3/13/2013 4:38:26 PM , Rating: 2
i dont have an apple. and i think you have a man crush on me...


By Reclaimer77 on 3/13/2013 1:46:03 PM , Rating: 3
Tony is that you?

Again, what do profit margins have to do with the end user? We know Apple is highly profitable, what does that have to do with this? What's it have to do with anything?

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But Apple does not make or sell cheap products for good reason... there is very little money to be made at the low end.


Well good thing that everyone doesn't think the way Apple does, or those who want or can only afford a "low end" phone would be shi% out of luck I guess.

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Samsung sold 30% more phones than Apple did, but they only took in LESS THAN 50% of the profits that Apple received selling the iPhone!


Samsung is playing the long game, and it's working. Unless Apple does something to shake up the paradigm, you won't be able to say this in the next three to five years.

I'm glad how much money Apple makes keeps you and Tony and others warm at night. But most people have other concerns, and they don't buy a product based only on how much they'll get gouged for it.


By rountad on 3/13/2013 2:48:37 PM , Rating: 2
I am wondering if there is a master "boot" image for these IDrones and that's why they all sound alike.

i.e. He's not Tony, but he's running the same "software" :-)


By Cheesew1z69 on 3/15/2013 8:54:54 AM , Rating: 2
DT needs to check for sock puppets and ban them all, pretty sure a few of the people are the same. The writing style, things like that are just blatantly obvious.


By Cheesew1z69 on 3/13/2013 9:56:16 AM , Rating: 1
It makes me cringe to think that retards like him actually found someone to marry them... or that anyone of the opposite species would actually have anything to do with him.


By xti on 3/13/2013 4:50:24 PM , Rating: 2
yeah...hoes love my iWeener.


By Cheesew1z69 on 3/13/2013 6:29:02 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
hat's because you're an uneducated idiot
Funny coming from someone like you considering :

1. You can't put a proper sentence together.
2. You call everyone names in every post.
3. You think you "pwn" people as if this is some contest.
4. You come off as a know-it-all.
5. You think you are some sort of literate tech person.
6. You parrot other people.
7. You are, just in general, a loser.
8. I don't give 2 shits that "apple users are usually rich" - something you seem to care about quite a bit and like to throw it out often. My S3 cost the same.

What's your point? None as usual..

I really do feel bad for your kids knowing that they have such a loser for a father.

Bottom line :

You are a troll.
You are a loser.

It's quite obvious.


By Pirks on 3/13/2013 8:05:59 PM , Rating: 2
Bottom line - you couldn't read the word "Apple" in the Mick's post and kept posting lunacy about why would Tony answer with a post about Apple. Once I pointed you at the word "Apple" twice, you have finally shut up. Good boy :))) hehe but next time you should learn to read quicker, moron :)))


By bigboxes on 3/13/2013 10:16:22 AM , Rating: 2
Is it true, xti? Are you and Apple fanboi?


By Cheesew1z69 on 3/13/2013 10:22:07 AM , Rating: 2
LOL... is it true? Apparently, you don't pay much attention to his posts?


By bigboxes on 3/13/2013 10:47:29 AM , Rating: 2
To be honest, there are a handful of Apple fanboi that troll DT's comments section waiting to defend all things Apple. I was just wondering if he was one of their cult members.


By Cheesew1z69 on 3/13/2013 10:53:12 AM , Rating: 2
He sure is, one of the worst ones too.

3 of them were on this post within minutes if you noticed.


By xti on 3/13/2013 4:39:35 PM , Rating: 2
stalk much?


By Cheesew1z69 on 3/13/2013 6:48:26 PM , Rating: 2
It's a public thread moron...retarded much?


By xti on 3/13/2013 7:06:36 PM , Rating: 2
man, you get really butt hurt that people have opinions that arent yours.

yeah yeah, say your 'you are dumb cuz xyz' reply now.


By drlumen on 3/13/2013 11:34:04 AM , Rating: 2
The same could be said for all the MS/Borg fanbois as well.


By retrospooty on 3/13/2013 11:45:41 AM , Rating: 5
"To be honest, there are a handful of Apple fanboi that troll DT's comments section waiting to defend all things Apple. "

Yup, it never fails. Even on articles that have zero to do with Apple, if its a company that competes with Apple in any way one of the following trolls will be there to try and crap on it.

Tony Swash (the illustrious troll #1).
Takinyourpoints
Messele
xti
Jack Barton
Testerguy
Nortel
sevearl others as well...

It never fails on ANY article about ANY product that competes in ANY way with Apple, one of them will be there to try and crap on it in typical troll fashion.

Whatever though, regardless of how they huff and puff about it, Android marches on and it is the #1 mobile OS. It will stay #1 until something better comes along and knocks it off, and I welcome that day - it means competition is alive.


By Cheesew1z69 on 3/13/2013 11:48:01 AM , Rating: 2
quote:
Even on articles that have zero to do with Apple, if its a company that competes with Apple in any way one of the following trolls will be there to try and crap on it.
Bingo


By bigboxes on 3/13/2013 12:26:04 PM , Rating: 2
Remember reader1? Kind of odd that he disappeared around the same time that Tony Swash started his career as Apple's representative here on AT.


By retrospooty on 3/13/2013 12:29:21 PM , Rating: 2
Yup... that is pretty typical Troll behaviour. I wouldnt be surprised if at least a few of the regular iTrolls above are the same sad person.


By Cheesew1z69 on 3/13/2013 12:36:07 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
I wouldnt be surprised if at least a few of the regular iTrolls above are the same sad person.
I believe this...


By retrospooty on 3/13/2013 3:28:36 PM , Rating: 2
Are you serious? LOL.

You say that as if you aren't in every single article about every company that competes in any way with Apple, crapping on their products. That is the very definition of a Troll...

And are you really saying I dont know how to debate it with you? You and I have had many many many debates, and one thing is clear from those debates... You are here to defend Apple, every move they make and every step they take, no questions asked. I make up my mind based on each product and features. You are loyal to a company and I am loyal to the tech. When Android came along and out-did Apple and became the best functioning mobile OS, I moved to Android, you of course stayed with Apple. When something better comes along and out-does Android and becomes a better platform, I will dump Android like it was a whiney bitch, get the latest and greatest and not look back. You will still be on the Apple platform no matter what. Don't even try to deny any of that. You probably dont even see the point of that argument do you ?


By Cheesew1z69 on 3/13/2013 3:40:10 PM , Rating: 3
He's a troll, you're a troll.


By Pirks on 3/13/2013 4:08:46 PM , Rating: 2
You're a clown though ;)


By retrospooty on 3/13/2013 4:04:53 PM , Rating: 2
"You're not a troll since you have admitted you made a mistake about $1000 Apple stock price."

Its not like he could say he was right... It didnt go up $3000 to hit $1000, it went down $300 to hit $400. Its not like he can say "Yes it did" because it didnt. How does admitting that make him a non troll?

Regardless of that, what would you call someone that shows up in any article about any product that competes in any way with Apple to spout off anything that can detract form that companies success? A bad sport? Sore loser? What?


By Cheesew1z69 on 3/13/2013 4:16:56 PM , Rating: 1
quote:
Regardless of that, what would you call someone that shows up in any article about any product that competes in any way with Apple to spout off anything that can detract form that companies success? A bad sport? Sore loser? What?
A TROLL!


By Pirks on 3/13/2013 4:32:56 PM , Rating: 2
When one posts some facts or graphs he's not a troll. He's just showing the other side of medal. Why don't you like objectivity a bit more?


By Cheesew1z69 on 3/13/2013 4:21:22 PM , Rating: 1
You are a complete mental midget...


By Pirks on 3/13/2013 4:42:46 PM , Rating: 2
CLOWN RAGE!!!11!!
hahaha :)))


By retrospooty on 3/13/2013 5:51:25 PM , Rating: 2
"It's always fun to rain on a parade of fanatics of some sort"

That would be exactly what I am doing to Tony here.

"You guys shit bricks because of some clever fact, some statistic myself or Tony has shown you,"

1st off, no-one shits bricks, we are just pointing out the Trolling. 2nd, do NOT put yourself in the same league with Tony. Tony is smart, well written and intelligently lays out facts that bolster his side and only his side with the purpose of deception and evasion, done with the skill of a seasoned politician. You piss and moan and insult people with the class of a jr high school student... =)


By Cheesew1z69 on 3/13/2013 6:11:54 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
You piss and moan and insult people with the class of a jr high school student... =)
I wouldn't even say high school, more like middle. Most high schoolers are much more mature than this moron.


By Pirks on 3/13/2013 8:18:05 PM , Rating: 1
well maybe you retro don't shit bricks but I can't say the same about cheesy clown and similar types


By Helbore on 3/13/2013 1:40:35 PM , Rating: 3
How could you forget Macdevdude? The guy that thinks Apple invented the smartphone!


By TSS on 3/13/2013 2:05:00 PM , Rating: 2
Pirks should get a honerable mention. Maybe he stopped now but he was the OG amongst the apple trolls.

Tony started with copying him.


By Pirks on 3/13/2013 4:14:48 PM , Rating: 2
Tony was never like me, totally different style. Besides, he owns Mac hardware and I never owned one. Also he's more like loving Apple, praising it, etc etc, and I was more like just pwning Wintel trolls like Motoman for their constant dumb lies. Well, some clowns don't see the difference, true, but smarter people do.


By TakinYourPoints on 3/13/2013 4:14:18 PM , Rating: 3
Yes, and I've seen you, Motoman, Cheezewiz, and numerous others in threads that have nothing to do with Apple and still going out of your way to bash them.

Meanwhile I go into different tech threads like for new PC parts and you're all nowhere to be found.

Hypocrisy isn't a good look dude.


By Pirks on 3/13/2013 4:28:21 PM , Rating: 2
Yah Motoman is the funniest Apple hater here, he has some funny firm belief that Apple is some devil church blah blah, an interesting kind of religious obsession I'd say. Cheesy clown is not that smart but noticeable because he likes short trollish posts, like someone posts some fact or statistics and cheesy immediately would post "gtfo apple moron!!11!" so funny to see his rage at the world surrounding us :))) The rest are more boring, reclaimer is just a regular uneducated redneck and retro is just a mick parrot, he'd just repost whatever mick says. Predictable. Now Mick is the best because he makes professional troll posts which bring hims LOTSA DOUGH on clicks. He just does it for money, he's a decent troller-for-money but not too bright unfortunately, I've seen better trolls in winsupersite forums, MUCH better ones. He's often quite dumb, like his lame RIM predictions LOL :)))

We have quite a company here man!


By TakinYourPoints on 3/14/2013 3:16:56 AM , Rating: 3
quote:
Yah Motoman is the funniest Apple hater here, he has some funny firm belief that Apple is some devil church blah blah, an interesting kind of religious obsession I'd say.


Him and the others are religious obsessives, its really funny. Seeing Motoman talking about Intel and how they're literally evil is hysterical.


By retrospooty on 3/13/2013 6:01:56 PM , Rating: 2
"Yes, and I've seen you, Motoman, Cheezewiz, and numerous others in threads that have nothing to do with Apple and still going out of your way to bash them."

I say alot of good things about Apple, I bash them when talking to you lot because you are so far to one side you cant see straight. I say positive things about Apple all the time. Just not 100% like you iTools.

"Meanwhile I go into different tech threads like for new PC parts and you're all nowhere to be found."

WTF? I am all over the place on these articles. Your tripping, or thinking of someone else.


By TakinYourPoints on 3/13/2013 6:25:50 PM , Rating: 2
And I say a lot of good things about HTC hardware, and I've talked up Windows Phone for years.

I guess if you say anything even remotely positive about Apple then you're a brainwashed iSheep. Note that anything I bring up is based on objective fact and analysis, not like people like macdevdude or swash or whatever. If reality makes one a fanboy then I don't know what to make of some of you.

quote:
WTF? I am all over the place on these articles. Your tripping, or thinking of someone else.


I have yet to see you in a PC hardware or gaming related thread, its always here. I'll see you there when I see you.


By retrospooty on 3/13/2013 6:42:47 PM , Rating: 2
"Note that anything I bring up is based on objective fact and analysis, not like people like macdevdude or swash or whatever."

True, I give you that, but you do still have some amount of Apple blinders on IMO.

"I have yet to see you in a PC hardware or gaming related thread,"

I haven't seen alot lately that piqued my interest, but I am there and have been for many many years. Science related articles too.


By TakinYourPoints on 3/13/2013 7:25:00 PM , Rating: 2
Blinders how? The only thing I see are you being bothered by real advantages the platform has, and that the only reason in your opinion anyone would use it is that they're sheeple. It is ridiculous.


By retrospooty on 3/13/2013 7:45:02 PM , Rating: 2
"The only reason in your opinion anyone would use it is that they're sheeple. "

That's not at all what I said. I have never said anything like that not today, or ever, nor am an an Apple hater... I personally commend Apple for their contributions to the industry and thank them for the iPhone. It was leaps and bounds better than anything else on the market at the time and it literally forced everyone else to raise their games. We all benefit from that. We all benefit from their push on higher resolutions too. Like anything else, they do some good and some bad moves. Overall, a good force in the industry. I think your arguments about Apple and it's competitors come from that same base, but are a few years old and in dire need up updating to todays products. Everything you say is true... Just true in the past.

Anyhow, today's thread was about the several people that have to come into every article about an Apple competitor and try and crap all over products for no other reason than they compete with Apple. You probably don't deserve to be lumped in with that particular group. At the very worst you are the least "one sided" of the lot.


By TakinYourPoints on 3/14/2013 5:26:11 PM , Rating: 2
That's because I don't go into other threads to crap on other products, note how I haven't bothered posting in the GS4 threads because there's nothing interesting to say. Anything I say is usually in reply to express FUD or idiocy (unfortunately common here), or in this case when you summoned me by saying my name three times. :p


By Reclaimer77 on 3/13/2013 7:35:45 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
I have yet to see you in a PC hardware or gaming related thread, its always here.


I can tell you right now, that's a goddamned lie. Maybe YOU haven't seen him, but I sure have.


By retrospooty on 3/13/2013 7:46:53 PM , Rating: 2
LOL... I know, you and I have had some doozies on politics havent we? 2 major Jimmy Carter fans can't always see eye to eye ;)


By TakinYourPoints on 3/14/2013 3:14:48 AM , Rating: 2
Politics are a different story, even I have enough sense to stay out of those trainwrecks


By xti on 3/13/2013 4:46:58 PM , Rating: 2
tbh, the i post on apple threads bc DT is obsessed with the phone wars. It doesnt have material like it did back in the days.

thats why i keep saying that jobs banged jason's mom and now he is on the warpath.


By mike66 on 3/13/2013 5:17:21 PM , Rating: 2
I prefer the term "isheep". They flock together and would rather jump over a fence than use the gate.


By xti on 3/13/2013 4:41:33 PM , Rating: 2
you do realize, I only own a gs3? i dont have a tablet because i am seeing where the x86 tablets go.


By Reclaimer77 on 3/13/2013 1:17:31 PM , Rating: 2
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/10-iphone-clones-you-...

Oh look Chinese iPhone clones. So I guess we'll just use this to defeat any positive Apple news as well?

Seriously every time a positive Android story surfaces, an iTard is there to bring up these supposed Chinese knock-offs as the cause. As if anyone believes that's a large percentage, if any.

If it so offends you that a company competing with Apple does well that you need to resort to this manufactured argument about mythical "knock offs" running wild, you need to seriously step back and see the kind of person you're becoming.


Yeah, right..
By teng029 on 3/13/2013 9:36:16 AM , Rating: 2
Sure they will.




RE: Yeah, right..
By retrospooty on 3/13/2013 11:07:28 AM , Rating: 1
Its not really a surprising analysis. You could have seaid teh same thing in 2011 when Android phones outpaced iPhone. It's inevitable. Once upon a time the iPad was the best tablet available. It cost alot but it was the best. Now its no longer the best. There are better suited tablets out there that cost less and do the same things that 99% of users need (Browse web, check email, run apps). It's not hard to predict that the better valued model takes over. What surprises me is what took so long.


RE: Yeah, right..
By TakinYourPoints on 3/13/2013 4:11:43 PM , Rating: 3
What non-iPad tablet is better? What has better performance, battery life, or applications? The Surface Pro is the only thing I'd say is close but that's really an ultrabook based on price, OS, and specs.

If you don't care about performance or applications then yes, there are other options, but your argument basically boils down to saying that a Kia is the best car because it is cheap and is "good enough".

Some of us want more, but then again a $200 video card isn't "good enough" for me either.


RE: Yeah, right..
By Pirks on 3/13/2013 5:09:16 PM , Rating: 1
quote:
Surface Pro is the only thing I'd say is close
Why ignoring Clover Trail Win8 tablets? Run all the Windows apps fast, Office, Outlook, Quickbooks, ya name it! Just not the heavy games and apps like Maya. Attach USB stuff, or Bluetooth, say keyboards or mice, and turn into a small work PC! Have all day battery life! Same weight/size/thickness as iPad, even lighter sometimes. Also run all your new Modern aka Metro apps too! (there are two recently posted really cool games in the Win8 app market, Judge Dredd and Guns for Hire, so app market is not totally empty of fun stuff). Overall it's a much better proposition for most users than Surface Pro.

Takin, you don't know shit about modern tablets I see :)) Learn some facts please


RE: Yeah, right..
By Reclaimer77 on 3/13/2013 5:14:44 PM , Rating: 2
Apple might make "the best" tablet, too bad iOS is poorly optimized for it and Apple doesn't seem to care.

Same 5x4 grid with laughably gigantic icons relative to screen space, piss-poor multitasking, and dumbed-down interface. What's the point of all that power if it can't do as much as the competition?

You PAY more, you aren't getting more.


RE: Yeah, right..
By Pirks on 3/13/2013 5:30:38 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
you aren't getting more
Is the best/largest selection of touch apps and games not more? Quite often this factor is much more important than the lack of SD and USB slots.


RE: Yeah, right..
By Reclaimer77 on 3/13/2013 5:54:02 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
Is the best/largest selection of touch apps and games not more?


Oh please, iOS? That hasn't been true for years now.


RE: Yeah, right..
By Pirks on 3/13/2013 8:11:53 PM , Rating: 2
Well, still lots of cool games are either exclusive to iOS or made for iOS first, purely for economic reasons (iOS gives devs best ROI at the moment). Sorry to burst your bubble Reclaimer


RE: Yeah, right..
By Reclaimer77 on 3/13/2013 9:49:44 PM , Rating: 2
And sorry to bust YOUR bubble, but iOS is a complete non-starter for any "gamer" I know because of the lack of software emulators.

I can play thousands of REAL games with Android, not just minimalist Angry Birds style kiddie stuff.


RE: Yeah, right..
By corduroygt on 3/13/2013 11:30:44 PM , Rating: 2
Did you just offer emulators as a legit alternative to the vast iOS gaming library? With touchscreen controls that NONE of the emulated games were designed for?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAH


RE: Yeah, right..
By TakinYourPoints on 3/14/2013 3:38:03 AM , Rating: 2
He also pulled out the sad "Angry Birds" strawman, which is funny given that it is one of the only big things also on Android. The quality and depth of the iOS tablet library is huge, and it extends well past games.


RE: Yeah, right..
By Reclaimer77 on 3/14/2013 6:29:55 PM , Rating: 2
Multi-touch will never be an acceptable input method to play games. Because of this, 90% of all mobile games are simplistic minimalist Angry Birds style kid crap. Regardless of what OS you choose.

It's called a Bluetooth gamepad you moron, look it up.

quote:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAH


The warcry of the ignorant fool...


RE: Yeah, right..
By TakinYourPoints on 3/14/2013 8:30:29 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
Multi-touch will never be an acceptable input method to play games.


Sure it is, you just don't know because you aren't on a platform that has them. There are loads of awesome board and strategy games on iOS that are perfect with multitouch. Some PC ports are actually better on iPad thanks to multitouch. I generally prefer strategy and tactical games on the iPad at this point.

quote:
It's called a Bluetooth gamepad you moron, look it up.


iPads support gamepads as well. Emulators too with simple jailbreaking. Its a bit gimmicky though, I've done it but everything I play on smaller screens ends up revolving around touch interface. I quickly went back to my PC or laptop for those kinds of games; bigger monitors are better for them. Its also why I don't usually buy arcade ports or action games on iPad.

Its like any other platform, some are better for some types of games than others. The same can be said for console, PC, phones, whatever.


RE: Yeah, right..
By corduroygt on 3/15/2013 2:25:53 AM , Rating: 1
How many bluetooth gamepads have been sold and are being used in this manner? Disregard the ones that are being used with PS3's lol...

Multi-touch can very well be an acceptable method to play mobile games. iOS store is filled with many examples which are NOT kiddy crap like you say. Check out the following apps on iOS:

1. Infinity Blade
2. Starbase Orion First Contact (Awesome Civilization/Master of Orion clone)
3. Civilization revolution
4. Scribblenauts
5. Flick Football
6. Score! Classic Goals
7. New Star Soccer
8. Plague Inc
9. The Walking Dead
10. Space Agency

Now STFU, since you're obviously too ignorant about mobile games and stuff that can be made good with touch controls.
Probably because most of these games aren't available on Android, you don't even know them.


RE: Yeah, right..
By TakinYourPoints on 3/14/2013 3:35:29 AM , Rating: 2
No other tablet has that many tablet optimized apps or the hardware capable of driving it well. Not even close. The Nexus 10 doesn't even have enough horsepower to scroll the desktop or web pages smoothly, let alone anything more graphically intensive.

Not like it matters, most Android tablet apps boil down to rearranged phone apps, not tablet apps designed and optimized specifically for big screens with things like multi-column UIs, etc.


RE: Yeah, right..
By retrospooty on 3/13/2013 6:15:36 PM , Rating: 2
"What non-iPad tablet is better?"

My god, your head is so far up Apples ass you cant see past your own rhetoric.

I said - "There are better suited tablets out there that cost less and do the same things that 99% of users need (Browse web, check email, run apps)".

Some may like the higher res Nexus 10 for $399, Some may like adaptability like the Asus transformer. Some (like me) may like any # of 7 inchers for $199 or less. I prefer a 7-8 inch tablet, perfect size. Compare the Nexus7 to the iPad mini and its an easy choice. For $130 less, the Nexus 7 smokes the iPad mini. That would change with a retina iPad mini though. I would certainly consider it... Although, by the time that comes, we will be looking at a 1080p NExus 7 vs a retina iPad mini that probably costs the same $130 more, but that remains to be seen.


RE: Yeah, right..
By TakinYourPoints on 3/13/2013 6:22:09 PM , Rating: 2
Faster hardware, one of the best screens of any kind on the market, and the best tablet optimized app selection out there. These are objective advantages. Right now price is the single thing other tablets have going for them, and spending less to get much less in return isn't my preference.

Yes, if you want to spend less and only do light email and web then there are cheaper tablets out there absolutely. I actually think the Nexus 7 is really good considering what you get for $200. There are compromises that go along with the price, nothing for you to get all flustered over.


RE: Yeah, right..
By retrospooty on 3/13/2013 6:38:38 PM , Rating: 2
Who's flustered? I just posted a simple comment on why people might choose other models and you asked ""What non-iPad tablet is better? What has better performance, battery life, or applications? " which wasn't at all my point. I get why you like it, the iPad is a good tablet, great res, speed, apps but your impression of what Android has to offer could really use an update. It has alot of good things going on these days and a WAY awesome pipeline of things that are coming.


RE: Yeah, right..
By TakinYourPoints on 3/13/2013 7:32:38 PM , Rating: 2
Yes, there are other cheaper alternatives out there, absolutely. No argument there, its all about if you are ok trading for choppy performance on the 10" models (the Nexus 7 is good though) and having way less third party support. If you're happy with a less capable device then go for it, that's why different prices exist.

And believe it or not, I have beef with the iPad Mini. Great size but it won't be worth it at its price until the screen gets 2x its resolution. It'll happen but right now I can't recommend it, but I also have super high standards for displays. I also have an issue with the current iPad in that it is too thick/heavy from what it should ideally be. My gold standard for tablet ergonomics is still the Kindle e-reader. With the iPad 3 they traded for a larger battery from the iPad 2 to drive that retina display, and I'd like to see the next update focus less on boosting performance (it is fast enough by now) and more on efficiency, thus reducing the size and weight.


Still buying an iPad
By Ammohunt on 3/13/2013 11:26:16 AM , Rating: 2
The next tablet purchase for my family will be another iPad; getting the wife a newer one and giving the old one to the kids. For us its about platform not form factor we are happily embedded in Apple iTunes media.




RE: Still buying an iPad
By retrospooty on 3/13/2013 11:36:41 AM , Rating: 2
"By bigboxes on 3/13/2013 10:47:29 AM , Rating: 2
To be honest, there are a handful of Apple fanboi that troll DT's comments section waiting to defend all things Apple. "

Troll #2.


RE: Still buying an iPad
By retrospooty on 3/13/2013 11:38:10 AM , Rating: 2
Sorry, that was meant for messele, not at your post.


RE: Still buying an iPad
By Ammohunt on 3/13/2013 5:08:24 PM , Rating: 2
LOL was gonna say..Tony Swash I am not!


.
By messele on 3/13/2013 9:42:28 AM , Rating: 1
Cool, another few thousand container loads of crap being pumped out of China that will be in landfill within 6 months.

Congratulations on those impressive statistics!




RE: .
By retrospooty on 3/13/2013 11:37:22 AM , Rating: 5
"By bigboxes on 3/13/2013 10:47:29 AM , Rating: 2
To be honest, there are a handful of Apple fanboi that troll DT's comments section waiting to defend all things Apple. "

Troll #2.


Just like last year
By testerguy on 3/13/13, Rating: 0
RE: Just like last year
By retrospooty on 3/13/2013 11:36:53 AM , Rating: 5
"By bigboxes on 3/13/2013 10:47:29 AM , Rating: 2
To be honest, there are a handful of Apple fanboi that troll DT's comments section waiting to defend all things Apple. "

Troll #3.


No fears for Android. But Windows?
By nikon133 on 3/13/2013 4:34:05 PM , Rating: 2
I have no doubts that Android tablets will repeat formula of Android phones. Even with slightly (but nowhere close to how Apple followers try to describe it) negative aspect of more fragmentation than with heavily controlled iPad segment, there is obvious advantage of multiple models, designs, features and prices. It is almost an axiom. DOS did it. VHS did it. Windows did it.

I'm more curious about Windows tablets. They are trying to capture best of both worlds - controlled environment but multiple vendors, models, specs and price points - but they are also quite late to the race. RT tablets seem to be quite irrelevant, but if our customers' interest is any sign - since lower-end, Atom based Pro models started appearing, we are actually seeing decent interest in such tablets through our supply channel. iPads and Android tablets were and still are in BYO category, but we are actually receiving business orders for W8Pro tablets, trials are successful so far and some of our bigger customers are planning to provide likes of ThinkPad Tablet 2 for significant parts of their workforce (usually but not limited to sales departments).

However, I'm not convinced that will open them doors to consumers. It is easy to see advantages for tablet that can fully be integrated in company's network, but domain, group policies, central management and suites of standard business applications are not really of importance for majority of customers. I would expect that they will eventually leak from businesses to customers - hasn't PC done that back in the days, taking homes from likes of Amiga, Atari ST..? - but I'm still not convinced. Android and iOS have such an advantage.




RE: No fears for Android. But Windows?
By Pirks on 3/13/2013 5:25:34 PM , Rating: 1
Clover Trail Win8 tablets are awesome, I'm very impressed with Samsung ATIV Smart PC 500 and there are many others. They can work as iPad, full touch, a few very cool touch games (Judge Dredd is my favorite now), youtube, web (WITH FLASH!!!111! and silverlight too!), email and all, and then you can convert them to a full workhorce PC with full Office 2013 and all your Windows work apps and all the light/casual Windows games you want, Takin would LOVE his favorite FTL, I'd love PvZ and so on and so forth.

BUT! This is just the tip of the iceberg. You know that Intel is coming up with new 22nm Atom platform named Bay Trail and they also going to bring Haswell next year, right? With Haswell and Bay Trail Win8 tablets will become even more killer devices than they are now.

Cheapo Atom tablets will become much faster and probably 4x faster in graphics with Bay Trail, and Haswell will bring 8 hours of battery life to high end superfast Pro tablets, like Surface Pro 2. iPad has no chance against these I think. Even now Clover Trail tablets present the best alternative to iPad, MUCH better than Android tablets, but you just wait until Intel is up to speed on their mobile chips, they have very aggressive plans on beating ARM into the shit pit where it belongs, and emballmer with windows 8 and 9 is firmly on Intel's side now after epic fail with Windows RT.

So don't worry about Windows please. If they ALREADY work as better tablets than Android, then you can imagine what'll happen when Intel finally provides proper Atoms and Cores next year. Woohoo! Gotta be exciting!


By nikon133 on 3/13/2013 8:18:10 PM , Rating: 2
Agreed completely.

When I say "Android and iOS advantage", I think of them being first on the market - and not just by a few months or even a single year. Personally I don't see much if any other advantages.

But on a consumer market, where recommendation from friend or relative who already has device means a lot, that is huge disadvantage. If they do manage to do well in business, this might prove some leverage in consumer market too - as people will be exposed to them at work, so that would, to some degree at least, work same as seeing device at your friends' or relatives' hands.

That being said, Clover Trail tablets are already great, and I'm really eager to see what will next gen bring. I didn't have chance to spend any significant time with ATIV, but we have a few ThinkPad Tablets 2 and businesses we work with prefer them for one single reason - proper docking station. This gives them capability to use tablets as light desktop/thin client machines in office (big monitor, LAN, kbd and mouse plugged to dock) and great mobility when out and about, without sacrificing compatibility and forcing them to convert documents between office and mobile use.


All hat, no horse
By stefn on 3/13/2013 3:48:43 PM , Rating: 2
Cheap devices, no profit, cheapskate users. Not much of a business model.




By Tony Swash on 3/13/2013 4:15:43 PM , Rating: 1
Deja Vu
By Tony Swash on 3/13/13, Rating: -1
RE: Deja Vu
By retrospooty on 3/13/2013 12:42:14 PM , Rating: 5
There it is... /paste

Yup, it never fails. Even on articles that have zero to do with Apple, if its a company that competes with Apple in any way one of the following trolls will be there to try and crap on it.

Tony Swash (the illustrious troll #1).
Takinyourpoints
Messele
xti
Jack Barton
Testerguy
Nortel
several others as well...

It never fails on ANY article about ANY product that competes in ANY way with Apple, one of them will be there to try and crap on it in typical troll fashion.

Whatever though, regardless of how they huff and puff about it, Android marches on and it is the #1 mobile OS. It will stay #1 until something better comes along and knocks it off, and I welcome that day - it means competition is alive.


RE: Deja Vu
By xti on 3/13/2013 5:34:55 PM , Rating: 2
we be a gang yo.


RE: Deja Vu
By Tony Swash on 3/13/13, Rating: -1
RE: Deja Vu
By Cheesew1z69 on 3/13/13, Rating: 0
RE: Deja Vu
By xti on 3/13/2013 4:48:07 PM , Rating: 2
why are you soooo angrrrryyyyy


RE: Deja Vu
By Cheesew1z69 on 3/13/2013 6:06:16 PM , Rating: 2
Why are you such a moron? Hate to burst your bubble, but I am not angry. Just don't like stupid people.


RE: Deja Vu
By xti on 3/13/2013 7:08:26 PM , Rating: 2
lol...yes dude, i am stupid because i dont regurgitate everything you like.

you are the life of the party, aren't ya?


RE: Deja Vu
By retrospooty on 3/13/2013 2:55:37 PM , Rating: 5
Tony, dont try to understand Google's cost structure. Its beyond your comprehension.

/paste

It never fails on ANY article about ANY product that competes in ANY way with Apple, one of them will be there to try and crap on it in typical troll fashion.

Whatever though, regardless of how they huff and puff about it, Android marches on and it is the #1 mobile OS. It will stay #1 until something better comes along and knocks it off, and I welcome that day - it means competition is alive.


RE: Deja Vu
By corduroygt on 3/13/2013 5:06:30 PM , Rating: 2
That depends on how you classify as #1. If it's install base, you might have a point, but if it's software quality and quantity, Android is nowhere near iOS, and the gulf is even wider in the tablet scene.


RE: Deja Vu
By retrospooty on 3/13/2013 5:57:15 PM , Rating: 2
I would be referring to what you get. More options, better features. I really dont care about profit, or sales #'s.

For example

Android platform advantages over IOS
- Larger Screens
- Higher resolution screens with better DPI
- Better Edge to Edge display (no giant iBezel)
- Micro SD card
- Removable batteries
- Waterproof models
- NFC
- Mini HDMI port
- Better Notifications
- Faster Voice search
- Better Mapping software
- Widgets
- Live wallpaper
- Wireless Charging (withoout and special adaptors)
- Plays HD content without downscaling
- Multi user support
- Multi Window support
- pop up browser(in a window)
- Flexibility in OS (Tons of Custom ROM's, etc)
- Flexibility in hardware (qwerty models, waterproof models, removable batteries, larger models, smaller models, high end models, mid range models, cheap models)
- Micro USB (Like every other phone made by every other manufacturer on planet Earth for the past four years, except of course, Apple)

Coming soon, Eys scrolling.

That sounds like alot.


RE: Deja Vu
By corduroygt on 3/13/2013 11:38:27 PM , Rating: 2
Then stop stating your opinions as facts. Also better mapping software is simply not true, because:

1. Google maps is on iOS.
2. I was in Europe a month ago, and guess what Google Maps did not support turn by turn navigation in that country, whereas Apple Maps did.

Also a lot of the advantages you listed are stuff that people with lives don't care about. Such as microSD card, removable batteries, waterproof, noticing downscaling on 1280x720 vs 1138x640 on a 4-5" screen, Live wallpapers, mini HDMI, multi user (LOL), multi window (on a 5" screen lol), etc.

Also Micro USB LOL (who cares since all phones come with the appropriate cable, and micro USB cables are usually weak, finicky and hard to insert with the right side up.)

iOS has its faults but it's far closer to being an ideal mobile OS compared to Android. It only needs a few features added and it's there. Also Mic


RE: Deja Vu
By retrospooty on 3/14/2013 2:05:05 AM , Rating: 2
Stop stating my opinion as facts? Arent you doing the same? I post a rather long list of things you can get on Android but you can't on Apple, you eliminate a few that you don't personally care about, fine then it's not for you... But everything on that list is real. You may not personally care about them all, but don't act like they don't exist. What that spells out is that apples OS is inflexible. You can have their vanilla solution the way they want it and nothing else. There are no options, zero. If you like a small screen with low res and dont care about that LONG list of missing features then go for it. Sounds like the iPhone is good for you. It's not good enough for me it's not even close.


RE: Deja Vu
By corduroygt on 3/14/2013 3:14:49 PM , Rating: 2
When talking about something is #1, you should say what it is #1 in. I agree that Android is #1 in options and choices, and install base. iOS is #1 in software catalog and stability.


RE: Deja Vu
By retrospooty on 3/15/2013 8:28:50 AM , Rating: 2
Its the best mobile OS period. Best UI, best features, best everything. The software catalog is NOT the OS. It is better than Androids by a small margin, but for all you give up, I dont see a single draw. Stability? I suppose if you are looking at older phones, but JellyBean is stable. It has arrived, you should take a closer look.


RE: Deja Vu
By Cheesew1z69 on 3/14/2013 9:30:04 AM , Rating: 2
quote:
Also a lot of the advantages you listed are stuff that people with lives don't care about.
Wrong... 100 percent wrong.


RE: Deja Vu
By Rukkian on 3/13/2013 4:25:09 PM , Rating: 1
quote:
Android has not made a single penny of profit for Google, it remains a cost centre. I suspect that future iterations will be a lot less 'open'


Source? I would prefer not iblowjobs.com, any credible source would be nice. I would love to see the actual number showing that it has lost money as you claim.


RE: Deja Vu
By Bateluer on 3/13/2013 7:25:50 PM , Rating: 1
Uh, Rubin was promoted.


RE: Deja Vu
By Pirks on 3/13/2013 4:56:30 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
using the web is the core tablet function
Ha! Caught Tony lying again! If web were really the core function of a tablet then Playbook would break all the sales records since it had absolutely the best tablet web browser at launch (see review at anandtech.com for detailed analysis why)

Tony, stop lying please. Thank you! :)


RE: Deja Vu
By Bateluer on 3/13/2013 7:26:33 PM , Rating: 1
People still report browser identifies as market share indicators? That fallacy was exposed years ago.


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