Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet sales hurt Android more than iPad
16/02/2012 |
Low-priced media tablets showed tremendous sales growth in 2011, with an estimated 7.5 million units combined from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. On Thursday, iHS noted that tablets from these two companies accounted for 11 percent of the total tablet market. This quick market-share grab didn’t hurt Apple iPads sales but instead held back sales of other Android tablets.
With its new iPad 2 debuting in the first half of 2011, Apple sold a total of 40.4 million units last year, accounting...
Google Books says goodbye to Apple App Store
Update: The Google Books app is now back in the App Store, after making changes that put it in line with Apple’s newly-enforced rules. Amazon has also updated its Kindle app and removed the link to its store, which means it, too, is playing nice with the revised App Store guidelines.Many, m...
Steve Jobs Was Right: 7-Inch Kindle Fire Sucks To Use
In late 2010, Steve Jobs commented on the sudden influx of 7-inch tablets by calling them ‘tweeners. He said that Apple had considered 7-inch displays for the iPad, but after extensive testing, a 7-inch screen was too small to really be useable. Android tablet makers, of course, scoffed...
Tablet makers with no ecosystem should turn to Windows 8
By 2016, one-third of the U.S. population is expected to own a tablet, says Forrester Research in a report released on Tuesday. This figure — 112.5 million people — is an upward revision from Forrester’s original expectation of 82.1 million, due to two names in the tablet market...
Apple maintains top mobile PC share in Q112 on 162% iPad growth YOY
Apple shipped nearly 17.2 million mobile PCs in Q1'12, accounting for 118% Y/Y shipment growth...
Rumor: Amazon's New Tablet Will Be the Kindle Fire [Amazon]
After TechCrunch's MG Siegler gave his initial glowing impressions of Amazon's heretofore-unnamed tablet, we were understandably excited. A true iPad competitor. Now, with Amazon's unveil just days away, new details have started trickling out. Including a new name: the Kindle Fire.More »
Google to sell co-branded tablets directly to consumers through online store, sources say
Google Inc., undaunted by a short-lived attempt to market and sell smartphones on its own...
Apple Gains on Android While Kindle Fire Adoption Overtakes iPad [Report]
Photo by fatboyke (Luc) - http://flic.kr/p/54NiGk If you thought Android was on a roll and RIM was toast — surprise, surprise. The mobile operating system that Google built continues to cool down while Apple and the Waterloo, Ont. gang that can’t shoot straight gain momentum. Just hal...
The New iPad Comparison: How It Stacks Up to Other Leading Tablets [Ipad Hd]
Well, it's finally here, Apple's new hotness. But how does it compare to the new hotness from Asus, Samsung, Amazon, BlackBerry, or heck, the iPad 2? We've got you covered with this head-to-head spec sheet.More »
Coming soon: A whole bunch of tablet pretenders
There are 20 new tablets set to hit stores in the next few months, and only one of them has a chance to give Apple any sort of competition. That exception? Amazon’s very-likely-to-soon-be-announced, overhauled Kindle tablet, according to UBS analysts, after surveying the not very hopeful fi...
Why new Kindles will supplement, not replace, my iPad
As much as I’m tied into Apple’s ecosystem for hardware and apps, my e-book loyalty lies with Amazon. A big reason for that is that when it comes to e-books, I like the flexibility that comes with a vendor that makes it easy for me to read my books on any device. And that’s a bi...
