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CheffoJeffo:
Howard has several good points, but his notions of market share are off.

As of Q2 2012, Apple still has about 55% of new sales while Android tabs run about 35%.

ChadTower:



I haven't seen many iPads either.  Not even really many tablets in general.  Granted, I have seen a single SUV where all three kids had their own iPad because god forbid the child not be individually entertained at all times.  I don't know that I would always recognize a smaller tablet as a tablet or just a big phone.  I'm not savvy on all of the individual models.


The place I have seen iPads at best use is in the Aurcade Tournament scoring system.  I have competed in three tournaments using Aurcade now and it's fantastic.  They're using a typical remote relational db with a web services front end.  The scores are entered in by refs using iPads.  The interface has great big buttons with marquee images on them to make it quick to find your game.  They enter your badge number, press the game button, and then enter your score.  The player then is asked to eyeball the score and press OK.  It really is a fantastic way to manage the tournament.  I've seen them enter as many as 2500 scores in a single day and 7000+ over the course of a tournament.    It should be noted that the Funspot/ACAM tourney uses the Aurcade system now.  It is working so well that we are seeing a dramatic increase in the amount of locations that are offering arcade tournaments across the country. 


That's a serious tangent, I know, but I figured I'd toss in a couple of cents on how the iPad is indirectly impacting the arcade hobby in a very positive way.  I'm sure an Android tablet could do the same thing since I'm pretty sure what they're using is a maximized browser with web services and not any sort of compiled client.



shmokes:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on September 06, 2012, 08:34:08 am ---if you look at the ones you linked to that are from the same time period (one is from early 2011 and can be thrown out) they each give a noticably different sales number for both apple and it's competators.

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Shrug . . . as near as I can tell none of those articles is more than three weeks old. I deliberately chose recent articles specifically to avoid claims of outdated data. Now, I didn't read all of them, obviously (I'm no going to read the same thing over and over just to prove a point), but they seem to be in pretty damned general agreement to me, i.e., Apple has 60-70% market share.

As for those little no-name Android tablets that are potentially not being picked up by the statistics, who cares? They're more-or-less irrelevant. Their sales numbers are incredibly low (I live in a major metropolitan area and ride the metro to and from work  every day . . . I see iPads every single day, never Android tablets), the user experience is poor, often using crappy resistive touch screens and slow processors. They have poor app compatibility. They're just . . . not relevant in any way, least of all developer support.

Look at it like this, if Android tablets ruled the market why aren't developers making tablet optimized apps, like they do for the iPad?

Gray_Area:
What does lackluster Android OS mean?

I think it, like most things, have too much to keep track of, and you have to root your phone and play around a little bit to get rid of/obviate those things. Which I have done. My Epic 4G came with 2.1, which I didn't really explore to see whether I needed 2.2 . So I got the bootleg release, and it was sometimes problematic. Gingerbread seemed like a good idea, but I didn't like it, so went back some to Froyo.EC05 .  The only issue I have with my phone is the video camera fails. (But other cameras have WAY too much ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- - see above - and I didn't like their interfaces.) Elsewise, I have everything I'll ever want or need in a Com device. (Well, except an HD out....which I haven't needed.)

Then it's just down to apps, and I use maybe ten non-included ones. (Like Ad-Free! See above.)


As for PC OS, I still use XP because it suits my needs. However, for simple security's sake, I'll probably have to upgrade my main rig when they stop supporting it.

shmokes:

--- Quote from: Gray_Area on September 06, 2012, 10:37:27 pm ---. . . your phone . . .

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Again, don't mistake me. Android for phones is unmistakably in the lead and there's no shortage of apps. It's just in the tablet space that Android is irrelevant. Even what small market share they have is dominated by the Kindle Fire and even the Nook, which are only technically Android tablets.

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