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Most likely tablets are dead: no room between large phones and ultrabooks.
by cft 12y ago
Most likely tablets are dead: no room between large phones and ultrabooks.
- retroafroman 12y agoI think more likely the market is somewhat saturated. There's not a lot of compelling reason to upgrade if you have one from the past 2-3 years.
- ceejayoz 12y agoWe ditched our iPad pretty much as soon as the kids got iPod Touches.
- kenshi 12y agoAnd there are few compelling reasons to develop sophisticated iPad apps anymore. App prices are low, the platform is buggy, and building a good iPad app is a more complex and expensive endeavour than building an iPhone app.
- kstrauser 12y ago> the platform is buggy, and building a good iPad app is a more complex and expensive endeavour than building an iPhone app. Citation needed? What do you find buggier about iPads than other iOS devices, and what makes them harder to develop for?
- bsder 12y agoiOS as a general platform tends to blast API's more quickly than most platforms--take a look at all the top-line games that needed special versions for iOS 8. In addition, Apple has it's own "private" API's that app developers aren't allowed to use which makes development more complicated than it has to be. Finally, iPad's have way more screen size than iPhones. Little things that you might get away with on a 5 inch screen suddenly look really bad when blow up to 10 inches.
- moeedm 12y agoI wouldn't say they are dead. The decline of the sales for iPad can be attributed to its wildly successful launch. People just hang on to their iPads a lot longer than they do their iPhones. The numbers should stabilize soon.
- sp332 12y agoThey haven't stabilized for 5 years and the trend is accelerating downward.
- grecy 12y agoThey sold 12.6 million iPads.
- damon_c 12y agoI wish something I sold could collapse like that!
- FigBug 12y agoAre android/surface tablets seeing a similar decline or are they taking market share from the iPad?
- guelo 12y agoOverall tablet sales are still going up with low-end tablets (mostly Android) eating up market share.
- geoelectric 12y agoI think this is probably the key. The rise of $200 90%-as-good-as-iPad tablets is capturing a bunch of the market. And really, if you're not already on iOS, they're >90% as good.
- jsight 12y agoThe Surface Pro is growing very well, though I don't think it would be accurate to say that it is signicantly taking away share from the iPad. As far as I know, the SP3 sold ~800k units last quarter, as compared to the iPad's >12 million. It's really hard to say how Android tablets are doing because the market for them is so diverse.
- dataminded 12y agoI bought an ipad 2 at release and I'm just now getting to a point where I need to think about replacing it.
- makeitsuckless 12y agoOr simply on a slower replacement cycle. There's room, but it's not for essential or daily use, like a phone or a notebook, and the things it's used for don't require the latest shiny hardware. So many people that own one don't replace it until the battery starts dying.
- geoelectric 12y agoPhones are also typically on multi-year contract (or a multi-year payment plan depending on your location and/or carrier), so you get "prompted" to upgrade on a regular basis when you finish a cycle. I only really upgrade my tablet when there's a serious tech jump, like going to Retina or cutting 1/3 weight or whatever.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoNote that is true only in America and some richer western markets. Phones in mich of the world are bought just like tablets, but are used often and so still get replaced every coupke of years.