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Ice Cream Sandwich will not save Android tablets

• ChuckMcM 15y ago
  Not a lot here, Apple fan screams defiantly at new Android release claiming its not a threat to tablets.
  • mrsebastian 15y ago
    FWIW, the author, Ray Walters is one of the most Androidy people out there. He used to write for an all-Android site.
    • ChuckMcM 15y ago
      "Fascinating" as Mr. Spock would say. Perhaps he's screaming because he wants an Android release that will challenge the iPad but isn't getting it.
      • mrsebastian 15y ago
        That sounds likely :)
• Osiris 15y ago
  If I looked at all the tablets that were $399 or higher, I would get the iPad hands down each time. You know what you're getting, and you know you're getting 100,000 apps to do just about anything. Why would I pay the same (more or less) amount as an iPad for a non-iOS device? Look at the TouchPad and Playbook. Same price, but almost NO apps. The Kindle Fire will do well because it's $199. The fact that it'll have the Amazon AppStore and (presumably) run most Android apps will help is sustain itself, but people will buy because of the price and the Amazon name. Android is going to have to go a long way with a lot of great apps to make an Android tablet worth paying the same as an iPad.
  • latortuga 15y ago
    > Why would I pay the same (more or less) amount as an iPad for a non-iOS device? Because you don't want to support Apple, don't like the iPad, like Android, have a killer app on Android, or any of a myriad of other reasons. Until iOS5, "because I don't have another computer" was even a good reason.