iPad Remains World's Most Popular Tablet as Apple Outsold Samsung and Amazon Combined Last Year

[Piggie]

You’re trying really hard to diminish the fact the iPad dominates.

Not as all, just pointing how BOLD HEADLINES can be misleading.

Like I sell 100 plates of fish and chips.
20 other people sell, each 30 plates of spagettie

And I put out a statement saying My Fish and chips outsells all others and I dominate.

Yes, I alone, sell more that any of the 20 other people.
but far more people are buying other people's spaghetti than my fish and chips.

 

[ericwn]

That's because there was never any consistency in Android tablets. There were so many tablets with different Android versions, screen sizes, resolutions, performance levels. Who would be able to make a tablet app that could run on all the possible devices.

But that argument can also be made for all the different phones that run Android - but there are still people out there making Android phones.

 

[ericwn]

And will always be that way. Android make terrible tablets in comparison

Android is not a company.

 

[The Game 161]

Android is not a company.

No where in my post did I say it was

The topic is ANDROID TABLETS and all companies who run android make terrible tablets

 

[ericwn]

No where in my post did I say it was

The topic is ANDROID TABLETS and all companies who run android make terrible tablets

Oh, sorry, I get you now! My bad. Thanks for clarifying!

 

[neutralguy]

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You should have a look into the iPad Pro line, you'd be surprised by how much you can get done these days on an iPad.

And then you will ask.. "what's a computer?"

 

[imola.zhp]

Selling the trusty iPad Mini 2 LTE this week, have had it since it was new in December of 2012. Hoping for an iPhone X like iPad mini to be released this year.

 

[sofila]

Just so tired of winning.

Market doesn't respect Apple's pure dominance.

pardon, what are you winning?

 

[Matz]

I didn’t buy the first generation iPad, as I couldn’t see a need for it in my life. Seemed like an almost frivolous purchase, as I had my trusty MacBook Air for portable computing.
Don’t recall when I took the plunge, but I have several laying about now, which I really need to donate or sell. I’m on an Air 2, which is pretty impressive. Fingerprint recognition and a Retina display is a great combination.
I use it far more than my new MacBook Pro, purchased a couple of years ago. I do all my browsing on the iPad, read news, email, buy stuff from Amazon, and make travel reservations. I also write, using Word, and occasionally Pages.
I have a few spreadsheets, in Excel, I use for various purposes. Like budgeting, and comparative pricing on a newer car.
And occasionally I’ll watch a video.
I like the integration with my iPhone. Messages and emails appear in both places, synced. Anything I create on the iPad I can save to Dropbox.
There’re some limitations to what it will do, but it is far more capable of doing useful work - for me- than I would have imagined.

Occasionally I think about the 12” pro model, but am not sure I’m willing to give up the convenience of a smaller size. We’ll see. I’ll reconsider when the Face ID version comes out.

Oh, and I’ve looked (briefly) at a couple of other tablets. Can’t say much about them, really. I chose the iPad because of its fine UI and integration with my other Apple stuff, not because I thought the other ones were crappy.

 

[Baymowe335]

pardon, what are you winning?

My AAPL cost basis subtracted from the share price.

 

[BWhaler]

Software, software, software.

That is my advice on how to keep and explode marketshare. Software has been keeping the iPad back for years.

 

[meboy]

Basically all the tablets I see around airports are iPads. In general, a lot less laptops than before, many more tablets.

And so many people use it for work.

Consumerism is increasing and intelligence is decreasing.

 

[Keirasplace]

To my way of thinking, the system that has 75% of the market is the one dominating and that would be Android. And the companies whose growth is almost 30% (Huawei) and almost 40% (Amazon) in a shrinking market would appear to be the ones making the right product at the right price.

Yet, Apple makes 90% of the profits in the tablet market; and that's what counts. The right price is the one giving you the most profits possible in a market, not the most sales. It is rarely the same price (or even close).

Not only that, those high demo people also spend more on the services, apps and on other devices Apple offers.

With those high value people routinely keeping their tablets 5-6 years, So, the total capacity to generate revenues of those people in the ecosystem increases every year.

Clients are not interchangeable; Apple has cornered the top of the market.
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Consumerism is increasing and intelligence is decreasing.

And the quality of comments on this site are also decreasing and becoming more and more irrelevant regardless of where they were entered... let me guess, you're using a IBM PC from 1982 you found in a dumpster.

 

[meboy]

Yeah, in a sense. But at least with phones the size differences could be negligible. A 6-7" tablet vs a 10-12" tablet was a huge difference, whereas a phone app on a 5" vs a 5.5" screen is hardly noticeable.

It also helps with phones that there's only one really huge vendor, and that's Samsung, so I imagine that most developers target their devices, which will work for a good majority of devices in the wild. As for tablet apps themselves, I think there are so few Android tablets out there that they just don't bother will proper support (usually, obviously there are some good ones out there).

Resolution scaling on iOS is a total joke!
At least android apps are all pixel sharp.

Hardware wise, Tab S3 is excellent and competes or beats the iPad pro.
The IPS LCD in the pro starts to shift and glow with the slightest off axis. OLED is superior.

 

[PickUrPoison]

Resolution scaling on iOS is a total joke!
At least android apps are all pixel sharp.

Hardware wise, Tab S3 is excellent and competes or beats the iPad pro.
The IPS LCD in the pro starts to shift and glow with the slightest off axis. OLED is superior.

Sounds like the Tab S3 is what would make you happy. You should buy what makes you happy.

 

[mi7chy]

Phablets have made tablets redundant but Amazon's new 2017 Amazon Fire HD 10 is the reason for its 38% YoY tablet growth which will only get better in 2018. Currently costs $120 for 32GB version but have been on sale for $80. It has excellent hardware with high end ARM A72+A53 hexa core SoC, HEVC and VP9 hardware decoding, quality 1080p display, stereo speakers, long battery life, micro SD card expansion, etc. It's more of a computer replacement with true background multitasking of apps and services, mouse support, unix shell with installable packages using Termux, etc. than iPads. Google Play Store is easily side loaded. It's better and at about a third to a fourth of the cost of 2017 iPad. Was gifted one and it's so good I picked up a second.

https://www.amazon.com/All-New-Amazon-Fire-HD-10-Inch-Tablet-32GB-Black/dp/B01NBIKAXU

Specs
https://developer.amazon.com/docs/fire-tablets/ft-device-and-feature-specifications.html

 

[deanthedev]

To my way of thinking, the system that has 75% of the market is the one dominating and that would be Android. And the companies whose growth is almost 30% (Huawei) and almost 40% (Amazon) in a shrinking market would appear to be the ones making the right product at the right price.

Yeah, Eric Schmidt said that waaaaaay back in Dec 2011. He claimed that developers would start to favor Android because developers go where the market share is. He said it would only take 6 months.

Here we are in 2018 and that prediction still hasn't come true. Developers go where the money is, and there's no money in gazillions of users with $50 phones/tablets that never buy anything.

28% growth for Huawei? 38% for Amazon? Sounds impressive until you look at actual numbers. Only 2.7 million tablets for Huawei and 4.6 million for Amazon. Over the entire year. Not much of an increase. And neither of them make anything people would actually buy to do anything with, because they're still stuck in an ecosystem with lousy software.

 

[pjp1]

I've always wanted an iPad, but haven't been able to justify the cost. I have a MacBook Pro and I do livestreaming and video editing. But I'm really happy for the people who can get everything done on a tablet.

Not trying to be harsh(I wish I had a Macbook pro), but it sounds funny that you can't justify the price of an iPad($329) but own a Macbook pro which likely costs at least 5 times that

 

[jonnysods]

I'll never be able to get as much done on an iPad as I can my macbook pro, but my mini is a fun consumer/delete a few emails device.

I'd love to get my hands on an iPad pro, but I can't justify it!

 

[nahkampfwombi]

Maybe I am going to buy an iPad in the future. But not until they are waterproof.
And iOS ... I mean. .... Jeah its nice. But its not a full OS. Sorry. You cant even open up the same app twice.
Browsing in 3 foto-albums the same time in split-screen. Impossible. Sucks

 

[pratikindia]

Android Tablets went for being too cheap.

It went competing for price than performance. Hence, the category died itself for Android.

Only Google can revive i.e. build their own, like it’s Pixel Phones. Samsung and others would follow suit with the same approach.

Even if Google (re-)releases Pixel/Nexus tablets, they won't be as successful as iPad due to quality of apps optimized for tablets. iPad has tons of iPad optimized apps where as Android has very few and Google can't force the devs..

 

[JackieInCo]

I still have my iPad Pro and iPad Mini 2. I just have no need for them these days with my iPhone and Android phones.

I bought my iPad Pro a year ago and it has only 26 battery cycles on it. That's how little I've actually used it. Tried selling it on CL but got too many low ball offers so I just kept it and some people were interested till they found out I never bought the pencil or keyboard for it.

I doubt I'll buy another iPad or tablet again.

 

[BvizioN]

Amazon has made some amazing growth since 2016. The article fails to point that out, instead touting Apple's measly 3% growth contrasted with an overall 6.5% decline? Amazon had 38% growth and Huawei had 28% growth. I'd say Apple's measly 3% didn't help that -6.5% much.

I'd never buy an expensive iPad for media consumption when for much less money an Amazon tablet allows you to read books, watch movies and basic tasks like email and browsing for significantly less than an iPad.

According to Apple ads I've seen, the iPad Pro is for those who don't know what a computer is.

I love Amazon's service (buying stuff from their site) but when it comes to tables I have only once bought their trashy fire and man, what a terrible terrible messy tablet I honestly do get it that people are attracted to cheap stuff for one reason or another and that is fine by me but for me on most scenarios cheap have translated to trash. I would rather pay more for a solid product. I use the iPad far more then my computer for which I find less and less reasons to have it. And this brings me to the last point, which is pretty clear that you did not get the meaning of the iPad add "What is a computer" If you are over 15 years old you must remember the time when people had to buy computers for most basic stuff, such as sending an email, browsing an web site or watching a video. These times have gonne. From what I see, computer (traditional PC's) are only used for power hungry professional programs that are yet not possible on tablets. And believe me when I say it, not for long.

 

[cardfan]

Ipads are babysitting devices basically. I've seen preschools with them but that stops once the kiddos get in elementary and apple becomes totally irrelevant in education. I still have a couple of old mini's for the almost 4yr old. The 12yr old likes to draw on the 9.7" ipad pro which is basically all it's used for.

I'd pony up for an OLED ipad for kicks but even then it's more for the eye candy and still probably wouldn't get much use.

 

[eltoslightfoot]

Why is it people think that because they don't need something, then no one must need something. I use my iPad Pro every day. I have tried a number of Android tablets, and they are terrible.

Now I do think that for an iPad to truly replace a MacBook/Laptop, it would need mouse support and external monitor support. But to say that iPads aren't useful? That may be true for you.