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Even with Dozens of Tablets & Price Cuts, Android Still has only 39% Marketshare

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Jan 262012
 
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Despite powering dozens of tablets including the Amazon Kindle Fire, a new survey shows Android’s market share in the tablet market at just 39.1% in the fourth quarter of 2011.

Something must be seriously wrong with the Android software if so many vendors including Sony, Acer, Asus, Samsung, Motorola etc are struggling to get some momentum for their devices.

So far the only way most Android Tablet vendors have been able to move their devices off the shelves is by repeatedly cutting prices to a few hundred dollars below comparable Apple iPad models.

But for those price cuts, Android’s marketshare would have been still lower.

Global Tablet OS Marketshare

The only Android tablet that’s gained some traction so far is the cheap $199 Amazon Kindle Fire.

Apple has been able to keep its tablet prices obscenely high because the competition has been unable to get its act together.

iOS Still Numero Uno

Apple iOS continues to be the tablet king with 57.6% of the tablet market in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to a recent survey put out by Strategy Analytics.

Apple shipped 15.4 million units in the fourth quarter compared to 10.5 million units by all the Android vendors combined.

Global tablet shipments hit 66.9 million units in full-year 2011, surging 260% from 18.6 million in 2010.

It seems consumers are increasingly going in for tablets in preference to netbooks and even entry-level notebooks or desktops.

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Android’s Share of Smartphones Rises

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Oct 052011
 
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The new comScore marketshare numbers for smartphone platforms are out.

And Google’s Android platform has increased its market share to nearly 44% for the three months ending August 31.

Some 84.5 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones, up 10% from the preceding three month period.

How long before every mobile phone in the U.S. is a smartphone. Given that older iPhone models are now going for $99 (iPhone 4) and older models like iPhone 3GS are free, we should see an uptick in smartphone adoption.

As per comScore, Apple strengthened its #2 position, growing 0.7 percentage points to 27.3% of the smartphone market.

Struggling Canadian company RIM (Blackberry) came in third with 19.7%, followed by Microsoft (5.7%) and Symbian with a tiny 1.8%.

Top Smartphone Platforms 2011

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iPhone 4S Debuts – Misery for Android, Blackberry but Not Worth Upgrading

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Oct 042011
 
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Playing the sadist to its Android, Blackberry and other smartphone rivals, Apple today launched the iPhone 4S at a hall-filled event in Cupertino, California.

The upgrade to the world’s favorite smartphone comes with a faster dual-core processor, a voice-based intelligent assistant Siri and an 8-megapixel camera.

The new phone runs on the Apple A5 chip, the same processor powering the company’s market-leading iPad 2 tablet.

Apple Launches iPhone 4S

Key Features of iPhone 4S

* Supports both GSM and CDMA phone standards making life easier for international travelers

* 8-Megapixel camera with a new custom lens, a larger f/2.4 aperture and an advanced hybrid IR filter that produce sharper and brighter images.

* Can intelligently switch between two antennas to send and receive.

* Supports download speed with HSDPA of up to 14.4 Mbps

* Voice-based Siri ‘Intelligent Assistant’ to make phone calls, sends messages, schedules meetings, sets reminders, and more.

* Battery life of up to 8 hours of 3G talk time.

* 1080p HD resolution video recording

* 3.5-inch multi-touch screen and Retina Display

* Comes in two colors Black and White

* Three different storage options – 16GB ($199), 32GB ($299) and 64GB ($399) with 2-year contract.

* Includes iOS 5 mobile operating system with over 200 new features; and iCloud free cloud services to automatically and wirelessly store customer content in iCloud and push it to all their devices.

* Facetime video calling service to other iPhone users

iPhone 4S will ship on October 14 in the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK.

No word on availability dates for India but Apple plans to make the iPhone 4S available in 70 countries with 100 carriers by the end of this year.

Besides AT&T and Verizon, Sprint will also be offering the iPhone 4S.

Not Worth Upgrading for iPhone 4 Users

While the iPhone 4S has compelling features that could cause more misery to Apple’s Android and Blackberry rivals, it’s not that attractive if you already have the iPhone 4.

Since SI has already has the iPhone 4, it’s unlikely we’ll upgrade.

In any case, iOS 5 software will be available on October 12 as a free software update via iTunes 10.5 for iPhone 4 users.

But if you’re on the iPhone 3G or 3GS or heaven forbid one of those crappy non-iPhone devices, SI recommends that you drop everything you’re doing, rush out to the nearest Apple store and get yourself an iPhone 4S.

With the launch of iPhone 4S, the iPhone 4 will be available for $99 and iPhone 3GS for free with a two year contract. Now, if that’s not bad news for Android and Blackberry smartphones we don’t know what is.

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Amazon Guns for iPad with $199 Kindle Fire Tablet

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Sep 282011
 
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In hopes of riding the current tablet wave sweeping consumers, E-commerce behemoth Amazon.com today launched a $199 tablet it’s calling the Kindle Fire.

As expected, it’s a 7-inch touchscreen device running a custom version of Google’s Android software.

Amazon Debuts $199 Kindle FireCan Kindle Fire Catch Fire
with Consumers?

Key Features

* The dual-processor tablet weighs 14.6-oz, is WiFi only and does not support 3G connectivity.

* It comes with 8GB of internal storage (supposedly enough for 80 apps, plus either 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books).

* As for battery life, Amazon is promising up to 8 hours of continuous reading or 7.5 hours of video playback, with wireless off.

* Kindle Fire includes a browser called Amazon Silk (yes, it supports Flash) and free cloud storage.

Amazon plans to start shipping the Kindle Fire from November 15, in time for the rich pickings of the holiday shopping season.

The Bad and the Good

Kindle Fire lacks a camera or a microphone.

Bad -  This means you can’t use the device to make Skype video calls the way you can with the iPad 2.

If even regular Skype (i.e. non-video version) does not work on the Kindle Fire a lot of folks are going to be disappointed.

Amazon’s main rival the Apple iPad has both WiFi and 3G versions and sports a 9.7-inch screen.

Bad – As we’ve said in some of our earlier posts, the 7-inch screen is rather small for a tablet. Continue reading »

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Damn, Apple iPads Own Only 68% of Tablet Market; Android Tablets Slipping

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Sep 152011
 
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These are good times for tablet vendors.

Ahem, only if your company’s name is Apple. ;)

Worldwide media tablet shipments shot up a whopping 88.9% on a sequential basis and 303.8% year over year in the second quarter of 2011 to 13.6 million units, according to market researcher IDC.

Consumers eager embrace of its iPad 2 tablets in the second quarter boosted Apple’s market share to 68.3% from 65.7% in the previous quarter.

Apple shipped 9.3 million iPad 2 tablets in the second quarter.

Apple iPad 2 Own 68.3% of Tablet Market in Q2, 2011Apple Owns 68% of Tablet Market

How are Other Tablet Vendors Doing?

Well, if we were the top executives at RIM (Blackberry), Samsung, Motorola, Asus or any of the other tablet vendors we’d write our will, confess our failures, bid goodbye to the family, take the elevator to the roof and splash our brains into a red gooey patch on the sidewalk. :( Continue reading »

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Ha Ha Ha, Now Free Samsung Tablet for TV Buyers

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Aug 192011
 
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We haven’t stopped laughing over Samsung’s plight.

Against the almighty power and popularity of Apple’s iPad, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1-inch tablet has no hope in hell.

Yes, no hope even after $100 or more in discounts.

Now, in what seems like a desperate effort to get the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 off the shelves it will be offered gratis aka pukkat to buyers of Samsung 46″ Class LED 1080p Smart 3D HDTV or a 55″ Samsung TV with a 3D Starter Kit at Best Buy in a limited time promotion.

The free Samsung tablet promotion runs from August 21-27.

Free Samsung Tablets for Samsung TV Buyers  Samsung Galaxy 10.1 - Hard Times

Samsung has stopped releasing shipment figures for its Galaxy Tab.

But given the discounts and strong consumer resistance to non-iPad tablets we have not the slightest doubt that the Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1 is a market disaster.

By the way, Apple sold 9.3 million iPad in its last fiscal quarter.

No, we don’t believe this ‘free’ offer will give the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 a fillip. Au contraire, it’ll only cheapen the brand value of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. Continue reading »

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