Apple's Lead in Tablet Market Share Shrinks as Consumer Satisfaction Slips Slightly

[PracticalMac]

If you don't know by now,

Windows proves that people are willing to use crappy, inferior, bug ridden and highly vulnerable OS just to save a $1.

In the long run record sales mean nothing if every quarter one looses %10~15 customer base.
Eventually Devs will produce Apple OS second, then not at all.

History repeating itself.

 

[I am Andy]

No satisfied

Once I bought a Kindle Fire and sent it back after a few days.
The first day it crashed with a message asking whether I want to reset it to factory settings or just trying to reboot.
Well, I bought it for my mother. The text was in english (I'm live in Germany) and very small.
The UI experience was a disaster.
She was not able to handle it.

Customer satisfaction equals ZERO.

Afterwards I gave her my old iPad 2 and she is more than happy with it.
Don't tell me anything about such stupid market researches.

 

[Pknowq]

You forget that Apple doesn't just sell "a tablet", it sells the integration of all devices together and that's something that others can't really offer because of fragmentation.
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I used to think the same. However is not true. I've had every iteration of iPhone from 2 to 5s, every iPad from 1 to air, as well as Mac air, mini and imac. I'm a power user.. I few hundred paid apps, I used to rely on jailbreaking my iPhone to get the tweaks I want, then I'd wait hoping that a new ios release would bring the tweaks to native ios. As apple started making it harder to jb I started looking at alternatives. My main worry was that I was so heavily invested in the ecosystem that it'd be hard to switch.

I bought the Samsung S5.... and it's as easy to manage in the Apple ecosystem as the iPhone. You can't use safari, but chrome is available on all devices. The big relief is I haven't needed to jailbreak or root because every tweak I want is available. There's a new os coming out, Android lollipop... But I don't really care, because I can do everything I want now as well as things I didn't even know I wanted... Like control my home theatre with the infrared blaster and have a file system of documents.

Now I've seen how easy it is to go out of the Apple system I'm now looking at getting Samsung tablets, the 8.4 S is far superior to the iPad mini 3. I'm also changing phones... But sticking to Samsung, I've had the iPhone 6 plus for 2 weeks and it doesn't get close in functionality to the Note 4.

I've seen alot of friends make a similar switch, I was definitely an apple fanboy so it was hard, but I slowly grew disillusioned with Apple..... Until they came out with the imac 5k which restored my faith.

 

[Keirasplace]

I used to think the same. However is not true. I've had every iteration of iPhone from 2 to 5s, every iPad from 1 to air, as well as Mac air, mini and imac. I'm a power user.. I few hundred paid apps, I used to rely on jailbreaking my iPhone to get the tweaks I want, then I'd wait hoping that a new ios release would bring the tweaks to native ios. As apple started making it harder to jb I started looking at alternatives. My main worry was that I was so heavily invested in the ecosystem that it'd be hard to switch.

I bought the Samsung S5.... and it's as easy to manage in the Apple ecosystem as the iPhone. You can't use safari, but chrome is available on all devices. The big relief is I haven't needed to jailbreak or root because every tweak I want is available. There's a new os coming out, Android lollipop... But I don't really care, because I can do everything I want now as well as things I didn't even know I wanted... Like control my home theatre with the infrared blaster and have a file system of documents.

Now I've seen how easy it is to go out of the Apple system I'm now looking at getting Samsung tablets, the 8.4 S is far superior to the iPad mini 3. I'm also changing phones... But sticking to Samsung, I've had the iPhone 6 plus for 2 weeks and it doesn't get close in functionality to the Note 4.

I've seen alot of friends make a similar switch, I was definitely an apple fanboy so it was hard, but I slowly grew disillusioned with Apple..... Until they came out with the imac 5k which restored my faith.

Your use of fanboy basically just disqualified your whole statement. Try again... Also the Iphone 6 versus Note 4 with the note 4 supposedly vastly superior. Are you for real, total invention? If you had said they're close but I prefer one I'd maybe think that your not trolling.

So, hey! Integration between devices can't exist at the level of Android because you need to run it on a massive amount of hardware, simple as that; its simply physically impossible.

 

[jaison13]

GOOD!!!
I hope it continues to fall and they continue to lose market share. They keep putting out the exact same thing over and over with tiny upgrades. They make fun of surface but I wish apple made a omparable tablet. Instead we get the same screen resolution, and some faster guts. WooPie!! Other tablets have higher res. the have card slots and usb, better cameras, pressure sensitivity, more buttons, run an actual os with real apps, not watered down ones. I could care less about thinner make one a bit thicker with more stuff. Innovate because right now apple may own the market but they are the worst tablet makers when it comes to giving us more!!

 

[mackinmike]

IPad is an expensive toy.. If u just want a content consumption device get something cheaper. Surface 3 is where it's at if u want to do real work.

 

[the-msa]

Well. Safari crashes every time and a lot of apps simply close out of a sudden without an error message. Ipads are just not reliable tablets.

I'll buy the nexus 9 and be happy.

 

[dannys1]

Well, we've got 3 iPads in our household so.

I had a little play with some of the Samsung Tab's the other day, my god, why anyone would buy one of those I have no idea. HORRENDOUS pieces of plastic crap. I'll let them get away with the phones but you'd have to be out of your mind to buy one of those tablets, or just not care about quality at all.

 

[yakapo]

If Apple doesn't eventually release a tablet that runs OS X, I'm eventually going to buy a windows 10 tablet next year. I'm hoping this ipad pro dual boots ios and OS X. I'll sell my MacBook Air and my iPad air and get one.

The latest iteration of ios is frustrating me. I hate how often my iPad freezes. Every so often, I have to tap on a link half a dozen times for it to register. OSx is 100x more functional than ios.

 

[SuperMatt]

Well. Safari crashes every time and a lot of apps simply close out of a sudden without an error message. Ipads are just not reliable tablets.

I'll buy the nexus 9 and be happy.

Every Nexus 9 review I've read says that it's less than stellar. They cut corners to meet a price point. It's thicker, slower, lower pixel density, weird aspect ratio, etc. It maxes out at 32GB - iPads go up to 128GB. Plus it's suffering from performance issues including major lag in the UI. You are totally wrong about iPads not being reliable. Sorry your current iPad (you didn't mention what version) is not operating at peak efficiency - but frequent crashes are very rare in iPads. You might want to try restoring the iPad to factory settings and slowly add apps back to see if things improve.

And this also just in about the Nexus 9 (via Daring Fireball): http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/11/a-day-after-launch-htc-sold-the-nexus-9-for-50-off/

 

[Septembersrain]

I feel that this isn't necessarily due to the tablets themselves. As phones are beginning to reach pre-tablet levels, they can end up being used as both devices. It shows a bigger decline with Apple as they are generally the leading contender with the largest volume sold. I could be completely wrong though.