Of course, that’s 2010. The real battle will be this year: Gartner says that the market will grow to $US29.4 billion in 2011, cannibalising PCs and getting into the enterprise in full force. But Honeycomb and Playbook fanboys, don’t get your hopes too high: Gartner says that Apple will grab 70 per cent of that market in 2011, and pretty much be the only game in town. Whatever. The only game in town I care about is.
Nath
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 11:47 AMStill a little too partial to apple, arent we Gizmodo?
Roland
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 12:18 PMI think the number speak for themselves rather than what Gizodo is partial to ;)
Kris
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 12:57 PMI find those numbers a little hard to believe. I have seen just as many cheap touch tablets around as iPads.
Dean Mandareen
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 1:08 PMlike what? i havnt
Nads
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 1:36 PMI don’t think Ive EVER seen any other tablets in the wild other that the iPad. I have friends that work at JB-Hi-Fi they said they sold about half a dozen Galaxy tabs since release in their store and about dozen Telstra cheapo tabs compared to hundreds and hundreds of iPads.
Simon Reidy
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 1:31 PMWhy is that whenever Giz posts an Apple story, people immediately accuse them of being “partial to Apple” or “Apple fanboys”. It’s absolute BS. There’s been a ton of focus on Android products lately and you don’t hear Apple fans accusing Giz of posting too many favourable Android stories.
The numbers speak for themselves. Giz is simply reporting a story. If you don’t like the stats that’s your problem.
Butters
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 4:28 PMAgreed. I don’t personally own a single apple product, however whenever they are in the news – where there cleverly place themselves often – I am interested in finding out about what’s going on in that world and keeping somewhat in the loop. Other companies i.e. HTC, Samsung etc. get equal attention based on how fre
Butters
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 4:31 PMquently they release worthy products or relevant updates. Enough of the hating. Let Apple have their day in the sun and get over it.
Kenny Brodie
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 6:22 PM+1 for truth.
aimless
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 10:46 PM+1
These Apple-haters are getting way more annoying than Apple fanboys. They just keep throwing some senseless accusations
DeeMar
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 9:35 AMCertainly refreshing to see a comment on the internet from someone who is reasonable and not a troll…
Ben Evans
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 1:07 PMI’m not an apple fanboy at all, in fact I really don;t like their hype at all. However, having been an iphone owner for 2 years and also an ipad owner I have to admit that do have the market stitched up. I borrowed my mates HTC Legend for a few months and it was pants in comparison.
Whitey
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 1:32 PMNo doubt apple have better massive market share in tablets and will for a while now.
Would like to see how the numbers match up with the netbooks, convertibles and hybrids (small portable computers). Probably still about 95% or something.
James
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 2:04 PMI agree ben, whilst Apple aren’t very consumer friendly, their products are quality and the app service is second to none. If they’d just fix the mess that is iTunes and make it less convoluted to use, I’d be a fanboy myself.
Anonymous
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 2:07 PMDon’t you think Gizmodo has been comparing too much since Apple fanboys start jumping out?
I don’t Microsoft being compared to Apple years ago. I don’t see Samsung’s flexible look through AMOLED being compared to Retina display. I don’t see Quadcomm chip being compared to A4.
Are you guys on Apple’s payrole?
Simon Reidy
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 3:01 PMDid it ever occur to you that the market has changed (as it always does rapidly in the tech world) and that people are genuinely interested in the types of comparisons you mentioned?
The retina display is still the gold standard for smartphones and nearly one year on is yet to be matched by any other manufacturer (the new QHD 960×540 Android screens are close, but still don’t have the same pixel density). Of course comparisons to the best display available are inevitable. Just as the iPad is the reference for tablet comparisons, given it’s market dominance.
I own a mixture of Apple, Android and Microsoft products by the way. I have an HTC Desire, an iPhone 4 and a Windows 7 based PC, but I recognise quality when I see it, and Apple produces some awesome hardware.
Anonymous
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 6:04 PMAMOLED Showcase in 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY_ADCTBKVE
They are not genuinely interested in comparison. They want to know how cool they are using an iPad. They are telling themselves they are the cool nerd. Everyone else without an iPad are poor or just another idiot.
Why didn’t Gizmodo compare the number cannon vs nikon camera? The only comparison I see is Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple.
Oddie
Friday, April 1, 2011 at 8:02 PMAnd everytime the word Apple is mentioned you Fandroid trolls swarm the page. If you compared Qualcomm to the A4 you would know just how poor Android is. I have both an iPod Touch and a Huawei X5 (both for around $350) and I will never buy an Android again.
Android lags on an 800MHz processor and doesn’t come with a task manager. I got the same game on each, Reckless racing to compare the performance. It runs smoothly with great graphics on the iPod while the X5 runs it poorly and sometimes struggles to run at all. The only advantages Android has are widgets and more customisation.
I prefer the simplicity, speed and having apps that work but I am not going to troll Android articles and try to force my opinion on others. I acknowledge that people prefer different things.
matt
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 2:25 PMthere were tablets that weren’t the ipad?
Abs
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 2:41 PMDon’t you just love senseless comments especially against apple…
- As a technology strategist, as day-to-day task… – I have an open mind, I have given fair chance to every Mobile OS in Desktops, Smartphones & tablets
- You have to hand it to apple… If a 2yr old Kid can master iPad, it really says something about the User Friendliness doesn’t it? Try that with a Honeycomb or BB OS or even Web OS
- I have noticed that its usually the ‘geek community’ who have an issue with Apple products
- Honestly how many of you ‘Apple haters’ have parents or even grandparents who are far more comfortable with iPhone than with Galaxy S or HTC desire… really be honest..
- From a geek perspective, I do feel Apple lacks certain features that I enjoy on my Galaxy S (Widgets anyone?) but I put myself in “Technology challenged” common person’s shoes and think I’m sure I can do without all those battery hogging widgets for Simple UI and Long Battery Life…
So next time you say Giz is partial to Apple think twice there are Facts and then there is Fanboysm..In this article it is the earlier
Cheers
Ha
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 8:00 PMWhen I was a 2 yr old kid I mastered windows 95.
Just recently, I borrowed a friends iPhone and couldn’t find calculator.
Shows just how intuitive it is.
aimless
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 10:54 PM” I have noticed that its usually the ‘geek community’ who have an issue with Apple products”
I totally agree with this. It’s true that on Android you could do unlimited amount of tweaks as long as the hardware support it and it has some features which are not available on the iPhone. But most average consumers DON’T care about those at all. From a normal consumers’ standpoint, I’d say the only feature that really matters on the Android is probably the flash support and the widgets
Abs
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 2:46 PMAnd by the way Gartner says it will capture 82% of Global market as of March 19th report… which is seems accurate…
1. Long lines still for iPad 2
2. OEMs revisiting drawing board to redesign their tablet offerings (Samsung Anyone?)
3. Educational Institutions and other enterprises rapidly adopting 1 manageable ecosystem (even the otherwise conservative Banks)
4. 65k original apps for iPad as opposed to 17 for Honeycomb (to be fair Honeycomb tablets are yet to fully launch globally)
De Patronizer
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 5:58 PMApple needs to come up with a miracle against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
http://www.rajas-techworld.blogspot.com
DeeMar
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 9:36 AMBecause of what one guy says? Did you not read the article?
Steve
Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 4:26 PMI couldn’t hear the story over the sound of Jesus gargling Steve Jobs’s balls.