Analysts: iPads will be overtaken by Android tablets if and when Android tablets start selling, you dribbling idiots
What’s that, Informa? You chucked a dart at a giant calendar and hit 2016, and so are now claiming Google tablet sales will overtake the iPad in five years? What, you’re all insulted by me suggesting you made this up? Really? You mean you actually have some kind of analysis tools for this kind of bullshit and don’t just pull it out of your arse at random? You really think you can predict the future patterns of this kind of technology, when the entire market didn’t even fucking exist five years ago? And you know that the market is going to trend towards Android, because, what? Because you think it will? Because Google has pimped its OS to any company with a credit card? Because that’s more or less (ish) what happened with Windows and the Mac, and Apple never learns because it’s closed and BLAH BLAH FUCKING BLAH?
What about the iPod, dickheads? Didn’t Apple retain the lion’s share of the market in that sector throughout? What about new disruptive technology that doesn’t exist yet, which may or may not be designed and released by Apple? What about the fact that right now, no bugger nor his dog can match Apple on price and build quality and experience? What about the simple, plain fact that Android tablets aren’t selling well, to the point companies making them only reveal how many have shipped?
Maybe you could try answering some of those questions next time, analysts, rather than shitting out yet another random point in time when you think the iPad will be ‘inevitably’ overtaken by Android.
I see you have strong feelings about this 🙂
I love Android. I have an HTC Desire and I’ve spent time with a XOOM android tablet and thought it was excellent, but if you gave me choice, right now between and ipad and the xoom I played with, I’d choose the ipad every time. It’s just that much better.
@DavPaz: This is something a lot of tech pundits really don’t understand, that people can choose a different OS for a different system. Many find Android superior to iOS on smartphones, but the same really can’t be said for tablets. Only Apple’s so far cracked this and it’s not going to stand still.
This commentary is more about poor journalism than Android specifically, no?
@Erik Mallinson: It’s more about analysts than journalism, but, yes. The point is that Android right now isn’t selling well on tablets, but analysts keep banging on about how by 201X (change the X to whatever digit you fancy) the iPad will be languishing behind Android by some distance. Maybe it will. This has sort of happened in smartphones (albeit with Apple still being the top *sole* manufacturer), but smartphones and tablets aren’t the same thing. And it’s interesting that quite a few people I know who wouldn’t go near an iOS smartphone (preferring Android, mostly) are nonetheless perfectly happy with their iPads and wouldn’t go near an Android tablet, at least not yet.
Overall, it just strikes me that analysts don’t really do a great deal of analysis in this space. It’s like they draw projection figures on a graph and go from there.