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DaffyDuck
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iPhone keeps gaining, albeit it seems that the iPhone share of the smartPhone market segment has settled at 30% - odd, though, that with Android's 44%, you hardly see any Android phones in use.
(hint: market share is calculated based on *shipped* phones, not actual phones sold and in use by customers.
Thus, you can see LOTS of Android phones IN STORES, on shelves, being displayed - but when it comes to looking at the numbers of what actual consumers, in the wild, are actually using, you'll end up invariably seeing iPhones in the majority.
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Posted on: 9:10 pm on Dec. 2, 2011
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PussyLover 69
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Amazon tablet now second best after Apple
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December 3, 2011 11:08 am
San Francisco - Amazon's new Kindle Fire is now the world's second-best selling tablet computer after Apple's iPad, according to a report Friday by research firm IHS.
The 200-dollar tablet was only released last month, and is on course to sell 3.9 million units in its first quarter on the market, giving it almost 14 per cent of the global tablet business, IHS said.
"Nearly two years after Apple Inc. rolled out the iPad, a competitor has finally developed an alternative which looks like it might have enough of Apple’s secret sauce to succeed," said Rhoda Alexander, the senior manager for tablet research at IHS.
Amazon still has a long way to go to match Apple, which controls 65.6 per cent of the market, down from 70 per cent in the previous quarter. The company also took a bite out of Samsung’s share of the world tablet market, which fell to 4.8 per cent from 7.8 per cent in the third quarter.
Amazon’s tablet is much smaller and offers fewer features than the iPad, but has attracted millions of customers since it costs less than half the 500 dollars that buyers must pay with for the cheapest of the Apple tablets. It also offers a richly integrated ecosystem, allowing users to easily access Amazon’s massive online store as well as its video, book and music services.//DPA
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Posted on: 12:09 am on Dec. 4, 2011
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DaffyDuck
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As predicted ^^
Rhoda Alexander, senior manager for tablet research at IHS is an idiot and IHS should start looking for more competent people. The only market segment the Kindle Fire is directbcometitionnto, is other Android tablets and Barnes & Noble's tablet.
If anything, the Kindle is a great, inexpensive entry level device into using a tablet, while providing a serious nice ecosystem of consumable media - and once the limits of the Kindle are reached, those buyers will most likely be looking at a tablet that will allow them to do a lot more, and buy an iPad.
While Samsung, Acer, Asus, and other tablet makers will continue sliding into smaller and smaller single-digit market shares.
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Posted on: 5:22 pm on Dec. 4, 2011
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BKKdreaming
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anyone have a HP Touchpad ?
I bought one on closeout and have not opened the package yet,
Just wondering if its worth using (Internet WiFi, youtube, watching steaming video etc......or selling it off ($200-$250) and buying a used Ipad 1
BK
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Posted on: 8:30 pm on Dec. 4, 2011
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DaffyDuck
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I think webOS was the only serious, and credible, competition for the iPad's space -- and hp's board has demonstrated their repeat incompetence by supporting killing it.
You would be stuck with a discontinued, unsupported device - you would be better off selling it, and optimizing your initial investment (maybe even making some profit), and buying yourself an iPad.
It depends, really, on what you want to do - both can do internet, youtube, watching videos, email, etc... but the difference is that with the iPad you will discover that you can do a whole lot more, once you outgrow the initial intentions.
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Posted on: 11:17 pm on Dec. 4, 2011
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Oz
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Just got to play with a ASUS Transformer Prime, a prerelease one but pretty much as they will come out in the next few weeks. Very well made, certainly the best I have played with of the Android Tablets (I have two different ones for work applications) and IMHO at least as well made as iPad, probably feels a little stronger.
It was running 3.2 but will probably release with 4.0 (ICS) according to the guys I got the sample off. I have been using 3.2 for a couple of months, totally stable, very fast & with good battery life. There is more Apps than I will ever need. Plus there is that great Keyboard. I doubt it will dissapear shortly.
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Posted on: 1:59 am on Dec. 6, 2011
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massageslave
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I am undecided as to whether to get the Kindle Fire ($199, expensive but with color, web, movies, games), or the Kindle ($79, very basic but does the e-reading VERY well...) So, asking if anyone has purchased the Kindle Fire yet, and if they have gotten it, what their opinion is of it so far. The reviews that I can find are all professionals, and sorta feel like shills for Amazon. I'd rather get an opinion from a non-geek crowd.
Daffy, sorry, but there's NO way I am getting a 500 buck Ipad 2. I know that would be your suggestion. 8^)
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Posted on: 3:00 am on Dec. 6, 2011
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PussyLover 69
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Report from AFP Dec 06, 2011 :-
Dell abandons Android tablet in US
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SAN FRANCISCO - Dell said Monday it would halt sales of its Android tablet computer in the US market, as rival Amazon's new Kindle Fire has heated up in a market dominated by Apple's iPad.
A message on the Texas-based computer's website said that the seven-inch (17.8-centimeter) Streak tablet powered by Google's mobile operating software would no longer be sold in the United States.
"Dell remains committed to the mobility market and continues to sell products here and in other parts of the world," the company said in an email response to an AFP inquiry.
"We remain committed to expanding our reach beyond PCs (personal computers) with a targeted set of open, standards-based mobility solutions and services designed for commercial and mobile professional customers," it added.
The Streak 7 failed to gain momentum after its debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The tablets were priced at $200 (S$256) as long as buyers signed contracts with telecom service provider T-Mobile.
Online retail powerhouse Amazon.com has meanwhile reported that its new Kindle Fire tablet was its best-selling product during the Black Friday shopping rush the day after Thanksgiving.
Fire has a seven-inch screen and is priced at $199, believed to be slightly less than what it costs to make the tablets. Fire also synchs with the growing trove of digital entertainment content available at Amazon.
Dell said Streak 7 continues to be available "in many markets" through partners such as Optus in Australia. A 10-inch (25-centimeter) version of the Streak is sold in China.
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Posted on: 3:09 am on Dec. 6, 2011
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massageslave
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bkkz, ALMOST a good idea... I went and looked at ebay, and there was a tab for those items closest to the auction being over. Not a SINGLE Ipad was selling for less than $330 closer than 6 hours to finish time. Darn. But, yeah, a nice "thinking outside the box" suggestion.
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Posted on: 4:02 am on Dec. 6, 2011
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