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Originally Posted by KC Fish
But I still disagree with the tablet market. If Apple ever drops below 50% in the tablet market in the next few years, I'll be very surprised. Despite tablet app or specification differences, Apple's rep and marketing is too strong to slip to a bunch of Android devices for quite some time.
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In the next year.. maybe not.. in the next 18-24 months I could easily see Android passing iOS in the Tablet market... it's only a matter of time... now we are just debating on how much time.
Think of it like this... Android didn't steal many EXISTING customers away from iPhone.. they just got a massively higher share of NEW customers. The same will happen with tablets as more and more of the big players get on the market. As many tablets that have been sold, it still represents a very very very small percentage of the potential market. The dark horses here are WebOS(HP) and Windows tablets. Windows has a real shot at changing the entire landscape. If so, Apple will still drop far below 50% but it just may not be Android alone that eats up the remaining share.
Also don't forget that the Nook Color counts as an Android tablet... 3 million sold vs 15 million iPads.. that's a 15% to 75% share if you don't count ANY other tablets... cheap Android tablets will end up bringing in the largest share of new tablet buyers.