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The tablet space is odd, with Apple ditching their usual high-end strategy and cutting their margins down.
My theory is they did it in order to wipe out the higher end of the netbook space.
I don’t think that a comparison of the counts of Android tablet specific apps vs iPad specific apps is really relevant for beyond the next few months, given the number of Android apps and developers out there.
bxgrl,
completely not the case in the tablet space. just go and compare some of the version 1 tablets that came out shortly after the ipad. Dell’s streak and Samsung’s galaxy were priced same as apple but where 7 inch screams vs ipad’s 9 inch. Xoom came out just recently and it couldn’t price it competitive to ipad. 100 apps on android vs 35k on apple and we’re only talking a few month lead time by apple.
apple is very good but it’s competition is very bad too and this is why apple is dominating so much.
again, I want competition to do well cause as a consumer, great competition equals great selection and great prices.
The stock market is showing me much love today, and the BHS index is up around double the overall market.
I decided to celebrate by buying some more BMY.
oops- point 4 was why I think apple will eventually lose out again, not why its competition is struggling to catch up. I think its something that will work in their favor in the future.
“yup – ask 10 people on the street if they know wtf a XOOM is.”
I thought Xoom was one of DIBS’ Chinese boyfriends.
“1. Apple came out with it first”
yup – ask 10 people on the street if they know wtf a XOOM is.
i bet those same 10 know what an iPad is
M4L- apple’s competition is struggling to catch up for several reasons-
1. Apple came out with it first
2. Apple marketing is brilliant
3. Programmers and app developers will jump on a bandwagon.
But Apple’s history of ubercontrol will work against them as it did years ago when they refused to release code to program developers, while Bill Gates welcomed them. That’s the reason something like 95% of the world’s computers are pc.
4. Price. You can get more bang for the buck with pc’s. Not to say Apple computers aren’t wonderful- but they are more expensive to buy and more expensive to fix.
i am seriously craving frozen watermelon margarita right now so bad!
*rob*
Android will continue take market share from iPhone unless Apple decides to really play in the lower end space, and that will eat into their precious margins.
In addition, the iPhone is at a much larger price disadvantage in most markets outside of the U.S., due to the fact that most phone sales in the world are not subsidized by the carrier.