Comments on: Android Grabbed 26.9% of Global Tablet Market in 3Q11, iPad 66.6% http://www.gizmolovers.com/2011/10/21/android-grabbed-26-9-of-global-tablet-market-in-3q11-ipad-66-6/ TiVo, Slingbox, Android, Blu-ray Disc, and whatever other tech I feel like blogging about... Fri, 18 Sep 2020 20:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Fanfoothttp://www.gizmolovers.com/2011/10/21/android-grabbed-26-9-of-global-tablet-market-in-3q11-ipad-66-6/comment-page-1/#comment-28464 Fanfoot Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:12:00 +0000 http://www.gizmolovers.com/?p=8346#comment-28464 http://gigaom.com/mobile/1-in-4-tablets-from-last-quarter-run-on-android-hmmm/did the usual analysis and suggests the 4.5M Android tablets is more likely 3.4M or so if you only count 'sold' units rather than shipped, which would drop the percentage a few points.  Doesn't really change anything though.Does look like we're going to have some problems in this space soon in terms of how to count OS's.  The current numbers for example include the Nook.  And Chinese knockoffs running forked OS's.  And will presumably include the Amazon Kindle, which don't have access to the Android marketplace.Should they?  What should count and what shouldn't?  Should the Kindle Fire be listed separately?  What about if they really really fork it and it starts to support API's that aren't compatible with Honeycomb etc?  http://gigaom.com/mobile/1-in-4-tablets-from-last-quarter-run-on-android-hmmm/

did the usual analysis and suggests the 4.5M Android tablets is more likely 3.4M or so if you only count ‘sold’ units rather than shipped, which would drop the percentage a few points.  Doesn’t really change anything though.

Does look like we’re going to have some problems in this space soon in terms of how to count OS’s.  The current numbers for example include the Nook.  And Chinese knockoffs running forked OS’s.  And will presumably include the Amazon Kindle, which don’t have access to the Android marketplace.

Should they?  What should count and what shouldn’t?  Should the Kindle Fire be listed separately?  What about if they really really fork it and it starts to support API’s that aren’t compatible with Honeycomb etc? 

]]> By: Fanfoothttp://www.gizmolovers.com/2011/10/21/android-grabbed-26-9-of-global-tablet-market-in-3q11-ipad-66-6/comment-page-1/#comment-28436 Fanfoot Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:40:00 +0000 http://www.gizmolovers.com/?p=8346#comment-28436 Yup, surprisingly good numbers actually, given how much crap Android tablets are taking in the press.  Looks like Apple has good reason to fight Samsung in the courts now, and can reasonably say there is a real risk of market impact if Samsung's 'clones' are allowed to continue.  Certainly as Android improves, this competition is going to get more fierce.  And as you say I would expect the Kindle to ship a seriously large number of units the holiday quarter unless Amazon has some kind of supply issue... Yup, surprisingly good numbers actually, given how much crap Android tablets are taking in the press.  Looks like Apple has good reason to fight Samsung in the courts now, and can reasonably say there is a real risk of market impact if Samsung’s ‘clones’ are allowed to continue.  Certainly as Android improves, this competition is going to get more fierce.  And as you say I would expect the Kindle to ship a seriously large number of units the holiday quarter unless Amazon has some kind of supply issue…

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