Tablet War: Can Anyone Compete with the iPad?
By Rob Scott
August 15, 2011
August 15, 2011
- You’re probably tired of reading about it, but as the tablet wars continue it seems little traction can be made against Apple’s market leader. The Wall Street Journal offers the latest look at the iPad’s impact.
- HP announced it will lower its price on the TouchPad by 20 percent, only a month after the tablet hit the shelves. Motorola cut the price of its Xoom tablet following the February launch and offered a cheaper model, with little response.
- Samsung has stopped reporting how many Galaxy Tabs they are shipping — and is now stuck in a patent dispute with Apple that threatens its European sales.
- Motorola and RIM don’t say how many tablets they have sold and, as recently reported on ETCentric, RIM’s PlayBook is in carrier trouble since Sprint Nextel pulled its support.
- Meanwhile, Apple has sold some 28.7 million iPads since April 2010. According to WSJ, Apple “says it is having difficulty keeping up with demand and selling every iPad it can manufacture. Five months after its release, its iPad 2 can be hard to find in retail stores. The company said it shipped 9.3 million iPads in the June-ended quarter.”
- Despite price changes, many consumers seem to view the iPad as the tablet leader and others as imitators. As a result, the tablet market is essentially divided into two sectors at this point — Apple’s iPad…and everyone else.
- Do any of our readers have a different take on this trend? Does anyone recommend using a tablet other than the iPad?
2 Comments
Apple marketing is great, but the driver is that still after all these years of iPods and now iPads, nobody has figured out how to even come close in ease-of-use. Competition is good — we really need some CE companies to step it up!
Apple marketing is great, but the driver is that still after all these years of iPods and now iPads, nobody has figured out how to even come close in ease-of-use. Competition is good — we really need some CE companies to step it up!
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