Amazon Kindle Fire vs. iPad 2 – Marco.org
Absolutely love this comparison.
Dell CEO: Android cannot compete with the iPad on tablets, Windows 8 has best shot
Why does anyone care what Michael Dell thinks?
Amazon Kindle Fire vs. iPad 2 vs. Nook Color
What’s smart about Amazon’s Fire is that it wasn’t designed to compete directly within the iPad. Very smart. Instead, that $199 price point is going to very, very enticing in the upcoming holiday months! $499 for an iPad vs $199 for the Fire. All depends on the intentions you have for the device!
United pilots to use iPad for navigation
Even more use for the iPad, Android left further in the dust. iOS needs a REAL competitor.
RIP: HP Touchpad
Perhaps more pertinent to those following the ongoing smartphone “wars,” HP is also discontinuing its entire tablet and smartphone business. Sales of the TouchPad were reportedly extremely disappointing to both HP and its retail partners, so while unfortunate, the move is not particularly surprising. HP will continue development on webOS despite discontinuing sales and production of webOS devices, which brings to mind the possibility of HP licensing webOS to other smartphone manufacturers.
Have to admit, I’m shocked and then not. This had serious potential, but the challenge, the major up hill battle is that Apple’s got HUGE marketshare when it comes to their iPads.
Competing against that is like a Prius taking on a Ferrari. Good luck with that.
More Evidence of Low Sales of Android Tablets
Breakdown by Google of Android devices in use by screen size. “Xlarge” is defined as any screen 7 inches or larger. By Google’s count, only 0.9% of activated in-use devices are tablets. Multiply that by the 135 million total Android “devices” that Larry Page announced last week during Google’s quarterly analyst call, and you get 1.21 million tablets. Compare that to the 28.73 million iPads Apple sold through the end of June.
(Thanks to DF reader Thomas Scrace.)
‘Why Should Somebody Buy This Instead of an iPad?’
Harry McCracken:
As a lover of competition, though, I’m itching to see other tablets arrive that deserve to do well, too. So that question — “Why would somebody buy this instead of an iPad?” — is stuck in my head. I’ve been trying to figure out how an Apple rival can come up with a tablet that pretty much answers that question for itself. And I’ve come up with thirteen ways it could happen.
Great analysis. Nothing particularly original, but a comprehensive look at the entire iPad competitive landscape. Lay it all out like McCracken has and you see just how strong a position the iPad is in.
One quibble, though:
But there are people who take their Flash so seriously that they won’t buy a tablet that doesn’t support it.
Gruber: Really? Who? I think the people who are Flash-die-hards aren’t buying tablets, period. They’re sticking with their Windows PC laptops.
Facebook to release iPad app; rains on Friendly's parade
It’s about time!
O’Grady
It’s almost impossible to believe but more than a year after the iPad’s debut Facebook still hasn’t released a native app for the blockbuster Apple tablet.
…the Facebook iPad app is now in the final stages of testing and should be released “in the coming weeks.”
Aaron Holesgrove, Clueless about the Tablet (iPad)
Gruber, two weeks ago, arguing that Windows 8 is fundamentally flawed as a competitor to the iPad: The iPad succeeds because it has eliminated complexity, not because it has covered up the complexity of the Mac with a touch-based “shell.” Aaron Holesgrove, arguing that I’m wrong: Actually, the iPad succeeds because it enables you to read websites whilst sitting on the toilet and play casual games in bed. It’s a toy. You can’t eliminate complexity when there was never any complexity in the first place – Apple went and threw a 10″ screen on the iPod Touch and iPhone and called them the iPad and iPad 3G, respectively.
Why Windows 8 Fails to Learn the iPad’s Lessons
Jason Snell: The iPad, like the iPhone, was a success because it did not attempt in any way to replicate the desktop PC experience in the way that Windows tablets (and Windows Mobile) did. Apple used the underpinnings of OS X to form the basis of iOS, but at no point in iOS do you see anything that could be remotely mistaken for a Mac. On Windows 8, in contrast, Sinofsky says that there’s no way to kill the Windows desktop: “It’s always there.”
Apple releases iWork for iOS
What’s this mean for the business traveler? Simple, one less device to haul around.
Pretty awesome music made with iPad instruments!
★ Cutting That Cord
Topolsky made an interesting observation: that the iPad 2 epitomized how Apple seems to be a generation ahead of its competitors on the device side — both hardware and software — but a generation behind on the cloud side.
Dell, HP executives take shots at Apple’s iPad, look foolish
This is prime example of why companies such as Dell and HP are lacking. They don’t know how to play ball, and they’re run by innovativeless (yes, my coined word) overpaid executives with no vision, and in Dell’s case, a clue.
“An iPad with a keyboard, a mouse and a case [means] you’ll be at $1,500 or $1,600; that’s double of what you’re paying,” Lark continues. “That’s not feasible.”
My name is Matt and I am a Product Manager specializing in Mobile at Thomson Reuters. I like my Family. I like Apple. I like Photography. I like Mobile Toys. I like Food. I like Golf. I'm big into all technology with major interests in mobile which fascinates the begeebees out of me. I like a lot of stuff so I thought I'd share along with the occasional light-bulb of insight too. All views expressed are mine alone.
