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dallas on 14 February 2013
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famousringo said:
dallas said:
kowenicki said:
dallas said:
superchunk said:
Who didn't see that coming?

Once Google had an actual tablet OS coupled with solid hardware at reasonable prices, its obvious it would surpass Apple. Just like what happened when Android on phones became a solid OS. (~v2.0)

Now, just like smartphones (Samsung), in another year or so a single or two Android tablet makers will directly beat Apple on their own.


I dont know if it was obvious, but Apple has by far gotten the most prestiget and buzz for its tablet, yet it still has gradually declined ever since the first android tablets have came out.

Of course it's market share has declined. They were pretty much the only tablet that sold at one time.  They are still increasing their own sales at a massive rate YOY and they are still selling 3 times as many as any other manufacturer.

a falling market share in a massively expanding maket is to be expected. 

Yeah, and we've gone from apple having around 95% of marketshare when the first android tablets came out to around 40% now..... It's only pitiful bc they should be able to do better as they are a massive company and should have been able to quash the android attempts at teh begining. 

Why is marketshare so important? Android's marketshare hasn't made Google anywhere near the most profitable company in mobile, nor has it made Android the leading platform for mobile development. The 6 million estimated Kindle sales do nothing for Google, nor do untold millions of other "Android" devices that replace Google's services with competitors like Bing and Baidu.

The fact is that Google crows loudly about Android's marketshare because it is the only metric that makes Android look like a success, while iOS wins in revenue, profit, software sales, even Google's own search ad revenues.

We've seen this before. Remember back in 2008 when Wii fans like myself were certain that the console's breakout success would lead to a surge of third party development that would carry the console to historic lifetime sales? That never happened, because marketshare isn't the be-all, end-all of platform success. The monumental success of platforms like Windows and Playstation 2 have tricked us into believing market share is all that matters, but reality is more complex.

I've seen Android described as an unguided missile. It's taken off like a rocket, but Google has absolutely no control over where it will strike. It's proven to be just as capable of empowering rivals like Amazon and Baidu as it has Google, and it hasn't been particularly successful in stopping Apple.

Well, about your point concerning apple; you do realize that Apple has lost both market share and stock value lately, right?  The drop in stock price was seen as a  *result* of the loss in market share.