Are you kidding right?
https://www.apple.com/pr/pdf/040714datasum.pdf
They only sell $1 billion of Surfaces...
Less than Apple back in the PowerPC days, 11 years ago...
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iPad Market Share Falls Below 25% as Tablet Market Continues to Decline
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Are you kidding right?
https://www.apple.com/pr/pdf/040714datasum.pdf
They only sell $1 billion of Surfaces...
Less than Apple back in the PowerPC days, 11 years ago...
Dunno what you mean by "properly," but I do read on my iPad for hours, all the time. Kindle app, iBooks, etc.
In my opinion the iPad prices are out of the market now
tablets have always been a fad, coming and going. Been like this for years, even before capacative/multi touch screens and such.
I got rid of my iPad mini because my 6+ did everything faster and better, and if i need to do actual work I just use my nMP. No need for a superfluous 3rd device to fill in the non-existent grey area between a phone (which gets more and more capable each year) and a traditional computer
I got rid of my iPad mini because my 6+ did everything faster and better, and if i need to do actual work I just use my nMP. No need for a superfluous 3rd device to fill in the non-existent grey area between a phone (which gets more and more capable each year) and a traditional computer
we have 7 iPads between the 4 of us, haven't bought a new one in 2 years though... for movies and games they just don't need upgrading for the kids, still have a gen 1 iPad for movies, it works just fine and is bulletproof.
They were just a fad, with limited usage no doubt more people have just reverted back to other devices.
I am surprised the iPad still sells as well as it does. It's severely overpriced and I think people are realizing that.
I'm not going back through 11 pages, but the reasons why the tablet will ever replace a PC for me are simple. It doesn't do anything better than my phone, laptops, and desktop and does a lot of things worse.
Touchscreen keyboards are useless for any kind of extended typing and a tablet does not include a keyboard. Yes, you can buy one. But they are never as good as the keyboards on my laptops for extended typing. Plus, it's additional cost to get back functionality a laptop provides anyway.
Portability isn't really any better with a tablet. If I need something with me all the time, I have my phone because it fits in my pocket, but tablets don't. If I want to bring a tablet, I need a bag or backpack. If I'm bringing one of those, I can just put a laptop in it.
Tablets don't offer the array of ports that my laptops do. I like to use a USB mouse and often need to use a USB drive as well. I'm sure there are USB hubs I could buy for the tablets that actually include a USB port or I could buy a bluetooth mouse, but again, that's more stuff to buy just to make the tablet do what a laptop already can. Touchscreens are frustrating on anything, and I tolerate them on my phone only because it can fit in my pocket. A trackpad or trackpoint is much better.
On top of this, the hardware is locked down to the point where I can't run the OS I want. Most tablets don't stand up on their own, so I'd need a stand if I wanted to sit it on a desk and type on an external keyboard. A laptop will do everything I mentioned without the need to buy extra accessories and assemble the thing every time I want to use it. There are literally no advantages to a tablet for me.
YMMV.
Touchscreen keyboards are useless for any kind of extended typing and a tablet does not include a keyboard. Yes, you can buy one. But they are never as good as the keyboards on my laptops for extended typing. Plus, it's additional cost to get back functionality a laptop provides anyway.
Portability isn't really any better with a tablet. If I need something with me all the time, I have my phone because it fits in my pocket, but tablets don't. If I want to bring a tablet, I need a bag or backpack. If I'm bringing one of those, I can just put a laptop in it.
Tablets don't offer the array of ports that my laptops do. I like to use a USB mouse and often need to use a USB drive as well. I'm sure there are USB hubs I could buy for the tablets that actually include a USB port or I could buy a bluetooth mouse, but again, that's more stuff to buy just to make the tablet do what a laptop already can. Touchscreens are frustrating on anything, and I tolerate them on my phone only because it can fit in my pocket. A trackpad or trackpoint is much better.
On top of this, the hardware is locked down to the point where I can't run the OS I want. Most tablets don't stand up on their own, so I'd need a stand if I wanted to sit it on a desk and type on an external keyboard. A laptop will do everything I mentioned without the need to buy extra accessories and assemble the thing every time I want to use it. There are literally no advantages to a tablet for me.
YMMV.
I still have my iPad 2. Do i want to get another iPad yes. It's just to pricey for me!!
I suspect it will be a pressure sensitive pen enabled device for artists and designers. That will be its main target audience and possibly a few other tricks,
Lol,
1) the Suface is NOT a PowerPoint ONLY machine
2) the Surface is doing horrid
3) did you have a point, or just wanted an opportunity to be sheepishly shown how pointless your post was?
Don't forget... market share specifically measures new sales/shipments over a 3 month period.
They add up all the sales/shipments in the entire tablet market... then they see how many came from each manufacturer.
They said 44,700,000 tablet were shipped/sold last quarter... Apple had 10.9 million... so that means Apple had 24.5% market share for the quarter.
(I'm not saying I necessarily trust these "analysts"... but that's what market share is supposed to measure)
But you are describing usage share... which is another thing entirely. Usage share measure ALL tablets that were USED over the last 3 months.
There are something like 200 million iPads in people's hands today... and they tend to get used more than other tablets... so iPads have a high usage share.
Well,
As I said, a LONG time ago, and I mean years.
Pick anyone here almost and say, well guys, we have this large 10" screen, with a 2000x1500 is screen rez, amazing, size and pixel density.
It now up to you to design the most amazing user interface for it.
How much do you think you'd have gotten paid, if after a few years of work, you emerged and said, ok, well we have a background image, and put some large icons on it.
Whilst I'm not saying Msoft have things perfect, I do agree that, there is a bit plus to having things you wish to see on the screen instantly. Without needing to pen apps to check things.
Split screen, or windows, but there is always the 4:3 problem, which is not really ideal for cutting in half in the 1st place.
I guess the inevitable is, what you suggest.
If it's fast enough to run OSX then it should be an option, perhaps it will do 2 modes?
The problem is...... If you are going out for the day and might need your laptop, then why carry an iPad also.
Or just carry an iPad and worry you may be limiting yourself too much.
There really is little need for a Tablet and a Laptop to be two devices.
They are the same thing, in reality, only difference is one has a bolted on keyboard, the other has a optional/removable keyboard, and one is faster.
It's natural for, eventually there to be just the 1 product.
It could not happen in the past due to power of the device, but every year the argument will get harder and harder
This is true as well. Ever since the iPhone Apple has spat in the face of professionals.
Exactly. And Microsoft got it already.
Tablets can survive if they'll become more powerful and useful like laptops are but in a lightweight touch screen tablet form.
The tablet is a luxury. A phone and laptop aren't.
The laptop/tablet categories could merge like we see happening on Windows with laptops that are tablets and the Surface, but those still seem like the worst of both worlds for most.
I think Apple needs to make an IOS laptop. could be a hybrid tablet/laptop if they can conker that divide. But a $600 iOS laptop would dominate I think.
Yeah they might cannibalize the Mac, but they don't mind doing that because if they don't then someone else will.
I think MS dropped the ball by discontinuing the SurfaceRT or at least the idea in general of a faster lighter weight less baggage OS.
The laptop/tablet categories could merge like we see happening on Windows with laptops that are tablets and the Surface, but those still seem like the worst of both worlds for most.
I think Apple needs to make an IOS laptop. could be a hybrid tablet/laptop if they can conker that divide. But a $600 iOS laptop would dominate I think.
Yeah they might cannibalize the Mac, but they don't mind doing that because if they don't then someone else will.
I think MS dropped the ball by discontinuing the SurfaceRT or at least the idea in general of a faster lighter weight less baggage OS.
Are you perhaps forgetting Apple's largest-by-far revenue generator that also happens to run iOS, the iPhone?
The iPhone has killed camera sales. Could the same thing be happening with iPads? Are the large screen phablet phones from Apple and Samsung "good enough" for many people? My son has a laptop and two large screen TVs, but he watches NetFlix on his phablet.
I'm now using a late 2009 27" iMac and an iPhone 4s. I hope to replace them with an iPad Pro and an iPhone 6s Plus. I dislike large screens, the 27" iMac was a BIG mistake. I'd have been much happier with a 21" iMac. I want the best camera available, so Apple is forcing to buy the over-sized plus model (Meh!). The iPhone 6s Plus may turn out to be large enough, that I'll never buy an iPad
I'm now using a late 2009 27" iMac and an iPhone 4s. I hope to replace them with an iPad Pro and an iPhone 6s Plus. I dislike large screens, the 27" iMac was a BIG mistake. I'd have been much happier with a 21" iMac. I want the best camera available, so Apple is forcing to buy the over-sized plus model (Meh!). The iPhone 6s Plus may turn out to be large enough, that I'll never buy an iPad
You can't be serious, are you? And cannibalize the iPhone, their biggest seller by-far?I'm telling Ya, if Apple wants to revitalize this market....all they have to do is rebrand the iPod touch as an iPad nano, offer it in 4.7 and 5.5" sizes and add cellular data just like an iPad. Boom. There it is. Sales would sore. Problem solved. Thank you Apple.
iPhone sales would be sore indeed.
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Could the 6+ and its successors kill the tablet market? Perhaps. Then again, New Apple (1997-present) seems bent on devouring its own before someone else does. The fact that iPad sales have been falling for 18 months is kind of a big deal because iOS has had no reason to differentiate between the smaller iPhones (all below the 6+) and iPads. Now that iOS9 is coming with that split screen, there is a compelling reason to buy that iPad Air 2. The iPad Mini, on the other hand, is probably done, especially given the 6+ and its successors.
BTW: Why do you dislike big screens? The 21" iMac looks smallish, whereas the 27" iMac (especially the Retina screen) looks fabulous. There is no substitute for a larger screen. Nobody's eyes are getting any younger.
Well, I don't see the iPad as a personal device. (That's my iPhone) I see it as a household appliance, like a toaster.. It's the itunes/spotify player, the second screen when we don't want to watch the same thing, something guests can use and so on.. It would be a great device for iMessage, FaceTime, social media and email but now we almost never use it for any of that because it's only one person who can be logged in to all of it and logging in and out all the time sucks.. I understand that Apple want us to buy several iPads but I think a lot of people don't use them enough to motivate the cost just to save a minute on logging in to stuff every time you pick it up. So, with multiple account we would be 2x happy, use it 2x as much and probably replace it 2x as fast.. Win/win
"Nobody's eyes are getting any younger." That's the problem! The four corners, of the 27" screen, are un-readable for me. Therefore, running many programs (FCPX, Pixelmatr, Affinity Photo) is a PITA.
Also the 27" iMac is too large/heavy for me to move (getting old sux).
Also the 27" iMac is too large/heavy for me to move (getting old sux).
think you could argue each IOS update people see that as like upgrading your ipad anyway
IOS 9 for one with spilt screen multitasking.
IOS 9 for one with spilt screen multitasking.
