Android 4.0 clears up the fragmentation of OS and app versions for Android smartphones and tablets and has the task of making Android tablets much more attractive than they are today.
DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim voiced concerns that Android 4.0 may not be enough for Google and tablet makers to achieve the breakthrough they are hoping for. In the end, Android does not solve Android's most pressing problem: Differentiation.
"The main challenge in the tablet market continues to be differentiation," Shim wrote in a blog post. "There are still too many tablets offering similar usage experiences, making it difficult to compete with the entrenched player, Apple and its iPad, and leading to a price-driven market."
So far, we have seen the iPad control the $500 and above tablet market, with Android and other competing platforms making waves only with heavily discounted products. Shim's expectation is that this environment will not change unless Google will give tablet makers as well as application developers tools that will specifically leverage capabilities in Android that Apple cannot match with iOS. In previous Android versions, Google leveraged this capability on smartphones and offered exclusives such as the Sky app to create an incentive to buy an Android phone.
Yea I have seen many people who use iTunes, not cause they like it cause they HAVE too to use their iPods or iPhones and all told me they did not like it. When a few got rid of their Apple product and I showed them how to use WMP or another Media Player to organize music and they saw the speed boost getting rid of iTunes gave they were astounded. Moral of story, 36 million people are forced to use the software, do not confuse that with them being happy to use it.
Anyway, Windows could have those same advantages, but closed development ain't gonna cover that much market without some serious help to the manufacturers. The rapid development of Android is it's biggest strength IMO.
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iOS 5 doesn't need iTunes. It can do everything over the air, though 36 million happy iPad users says your iTunes hate is overblown.
Yea I have seen many people who use iTunes, not cause they like it cause they HAVE too to use their iPods or iPhones and all told me they did not like it. When a few got rid of their Apple product and I showed them how to use WMP or another Media Player to organize music and they saw the speed boost getting rid of iTunes gave they were astounded. Moral of story, 36 million people are forced to use the software, do not confuse that with them being happy to use it.
WRONG! I ain't buying any tablet with such price and rather wait for "discounted products".
If Android does not offer such products I might just live without a tablet on my hand.
For me, PC, laptop, and smartphone are necessities but tablets are merely toys.
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Apple has the higher end and Amazon will own the lower end (pre-orders for Amazon's new tablet suggest iPad numbers for sales). There just isn;t much room left over for the umpteen other tablet makers to carve out any reasonable piece for themselves.
've been satisfied with my tab7 android and with netflix and hulu and expandable memory (and samsung market) personally I do not see any reason to have neither apple nor amazon cloud access
I develop web apps for apple and android devices and that's how I had to do it.
To me they are just target platforms.
My beef with Itunes is that it's MASSIVE, very slow, and doesn't work as intended very often. I wrote a program that took 5 years of work, and it's about 40MB. Does many things related to manufacturing, reporting, entering orders, tons of stuff. How big is Itunes? like 300MB +
I have no idea how that is even possible for such a trivial thing like a media player with a couple extras, especially when IOS images are NOT included in all that. It's slow as a dog and messes with wifi by installing some bojour crap.
But worst of all is that, if I discover winamp tommorow and think it's amazing, i'm pretty much screwed without resorting to hacks.
Amazon's tablet runs Android
iTunes music transfer to DoubleTwist, to my Galaxy S2. Some of the tags are messed up no thanks to the AAC format. Ironically DoubleTwist (and EVERY other media player) have the appropriate tags before transfer.