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I just bought an Android tablet and wasn't even in the market for one...because of the price.
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I think we have barely scratched the surface regarding the TOTAL number of tablets that will be selling over the next few years and 2012 looks to be the BIG year for sales. 2012 should see the "average Joe" and the enterprise buying into the space. Right now we measure tablet sales in the 10s of millions... I'm talking about 100s of millions of sales. Of course I'll be dead wrong if the prices don't drop like I think they will. On a side note, I'd like to point out that I appreciate all the debate in this thread. Most people have put forth well constructed logical arguments. Now I still think you're all idiots to disagree with me but logical idiots nonetheless. |
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#1 yes, I admitted to being wrong on the Gemini #2 I was RIGHT, HTML5 is STILL not a standard .. far far from it, so thank you. I stand by the fact that I can do more on my phone or my Win7 tablet than you can on an iPad simply by the fact that they ignore FLASH and the "magic bullet" of HTML5 is still not here yet. #3 Again I was right, Android 2.2 came out and the early Tablets followed soon after... they sucked.. and they were still better than iPads because they actually worked. MISQuote sales all you want...(it's been 15 million iPads sold)but back then I wasn't predicting market share. I was talking functionality #4 I'll admit I was wrong here... for now.. I still think web standards is going to be the way to go and "apps" aren't the long term solution... I was dead wrong on the time frame. #5 Again I was right... nothing I said in that post was wrong.. WebM IS YouTube's video standard now.. they haven't turned off h.264... but they are moving more that way and still could turn it off completely if they wanted to. The bankruptcy part was a long long long term prediction if Jobs and Apple don't adapt to the market and instead stubbornly try to dictate. #6 Again I was correct... tons of sites STOPPED converting to h.264 based html5 video because they are waiting for a standard now that WebM is out there... Google even dropped h.264 support from Chrome... the biggest hurdle right now is waiting for the hardware vendors to catch up on optimization. Ok so let's recap... I make a prediction that the Gemini tablet would be out in a few months...so did EVERYONE by the way... and I was wrong.. I already admitted that. I also dogged on the app model and I was wrong on it's longevity.. I still hate the model but it's gonna take awhile to get rid of it unfortunately. So score 2 wrong predictions. Pretty much everything else was right... and that's not even counting a multitude of posts on the Flash vs HTML5 debate where I was right as well. |
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How about this... we take the bet ... we put forth our respective figures at the time and then WE both decide if there is a clear cut winner. How does that sound? Don't worry, if I am wrong I am perfectly willing to admit it and pay up! I truly think it will be close... I think you are looking at about 50 million iPads sold by then. Which puts the total of tablets sales needed for me to win at 320 million. You are starting at 15 million right now... I am starting at considerably less... (I'll have to see if that figure is even available right now) Oh and we ARE talking worldwide sales.. the figures are much easier to find... Last edited by AustinChief; 03-30-2011 at 12:34 AM.. |
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Some standardization will have to be established, sure. Maybe we can choose a website we agree on that calculates market share that will likely be around in 21 months...
Dammit this is getting complicated.. I wonder if there is an app for this.....
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