Why Android Tablets Can't Raval iPad + Apple's Quad Core

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(1) Chris Nuttall, iPAd Is Leader of the Tablet Pack as Competitors Muster; Technology Hardware; News analysis; Rivals to Apple are banking on a new operating system to gain market share. financial Times, Jan 6, 2012.

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(a) Why Android tabletts are expensive--originally as expensive as iPad but forced to reduce price after poor showing.

(i) "Unlike smartphones, tablets do not generally attract subsidies from carriers and consumers seem unwilling to pay more than 4250 for a non-ipad tablet, according to a survey by the comsumer electronics site retrevo last month.

(ii) "'while Apple can command a premium price for the iPad with its apps and content, the likes of Samsung and Toshiba are only able to sell the hardware--they don't make any money from [app] sales in the Android market--so they are stuck with trying to make money by charging a higher price for the hardwaree,' he [Andrew Eisner, Retrevo content director,] said.

"Makers of ereaders, especially the retailers Amazon and Barnes & Noble, have squeezed the established manufacturers with tablet versions under $250, made possible by their own ability to sell content and services. these have been relatively successful with amazon's Fire tablet leading Kindle sales of more than 1m a week in december.

(b) 'jen-hsun huang, chief executive of Nvidia, whose Tegra chips have powered leading Android tablet models, says their [Android tablets] progress has also been dogged by the immaturity of the operating system and a lack of apps--the release in 2011 of an Android 3.0 version, codenamed Honeycomb, specifically designed for tablets, did not get the [app] developer support it needed.

"'It was such a different operating system, it split the Android platform into phones and tablets. There was a small installed base of Honeycomb tablets and as a result there weren't that many applications developed for it,' he says.

"That should change this year with 4.0 Ice Cream sandwich--a unifiesd operating system that first appeared on Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone in November. Android developers will now be encouraged to develop for both smartphones and tablets at the same time, Mr Huang predicts.


My comment: There is no need to read the rest.

(2) Mark Gurman, iOS 5.1 Beta Reveals Apple’s Plan to Soon Ship iPads, iPhones with Quad-Core Chips. 9tofMac.com, Jan 6, 2012.
http://9to5mac.com/2012/01/06/io ... th-quad-core-chips/

(3) Chun Han Wong and Patrick Barta, Singapore Loses Nokia to China. SouthEast Asia Real Time, Jan 5, 2012  
http://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime ... ses-nokia-to-china/
("But at the end of the day, it’s hard to beat China, whose costs are still a lot lower than places like Singapore, and whose expanding consumer market dwarfs the smaller countries of Southeast Asia")

(4) Steve Stechlow, Lawmakers Ask State Department to Probe Huawei Business With Iran. Wall Street Journal, Jan 5, 2012
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 40700603637204.html
("Six US lawmakers have asked the State Department to investigate whether Chinese telecommunications-equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. has violated US sanctions on Iran by supplying it with sensitive communications technology that has been used for censorship")

My comment: Non-subscribers are allows to read the first two paragraphs. But it is enough to read the first (above).