Sentences with phrase «consumer tablet market»

A new report issued Wednesday by J.P. Morgan Chase paints a sad picture for companies like Samsung, Motorola, RIM and ASUS as they look to make headway in the emerging consumer tablet market.

Dell's other tablet PC, the 5 - inch Streak, was evidently just the beginning of the company's push into the burgeoning consumer tablet market: In a Sept. 14 presentation at the Intel Developer Forum, company executive David Zavelson showed off the 10 - inch Inspiron Duo, which can be used as either a tablet or a netbook.

When the Apple iPad ignited a super-charged consumer tablet market, other manufacturers saw their chance to create a new line of products.

A report on Monday suggested that Android tablets — namely the Samsung Galaxy Tab — had finally put a dent in the iPad's consumer tablet market share, causing it to drop from 96 % to 77 % last quarter.

«Given Apple's recent system and software announcements, it is clearly moving beyond the basic consumer tablet market and targeting the remaining personal computer users.»

Lead by the impressive sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab, the Android platform is finally starting to gain momentum in the emerging consumer tablet market.

So the whole exercise of Surface RT is to reduce prices in the consumer tablet market while Microsoft keeps the iPad 2 / 3/4 etc out of the enterprise market, replacing it with its own Surface Pro / HP / DELL / Lenovo Win8 tablets.

Other competitors, including Nokia, could follow suit as they roll out their own wares throughout 2010; but as one analyst warns, the consumer tablet market is still in its infant stages, and still as a whole in need of general acceptance.

Apple's iPad sold 300,000 units by the end of its first day of general release, perhaps proving the viability of the consumer tablet market but also setting a bar for its competitors and their own upcoming tablet PCs.

In response to the Apple iPad's massive success, other manufacturers have rushed into the consumer tablet market.

By deciding not to target the consumer tablet market — dominated by devices such as the iPad — and instead focusing on the consumer notebook market, albeit with tablet sensibilities, Microsoft created an interesting product category for itself.

Android is already well on its way to overrunning the consumer tablet market as it did with smartphones.

As the consumer tablet market gets more saturated, sales may be more dependent on upgrades.

Even as the consumer tablet market is contracting, there is still growth in the business tablet market with devices like the Surface Pro 3 and two - in - one hybrid slates.

Rubin has made it clear that Google intends to make another run at penetrating the consumer tablet market this year — a market that Apple utterly dominates by every metric — and in order to do that, it's going to need a game plan.

Hewlett - Packard re-enters the consumer tablet market with its Slate 7, an Android - based device with a 7 - inch screen with pricing that starts at $ 169.

HP quit the consumer tablet market in 2011 when it killed off its WebOS - based TouchPad, but it's now back to take another swing.

Apple sold nearly 15 million iPads in 2010, supercharging a consumer tablet market in which other competitors, including Samsung and Research In Motion, desperately want a substantial presence.

It has only been a year since Apple's iPad breathed new life into the consumer tablet market and we're already seeing reports that manufacturers are starting to come to their senses after the chaos that ensued following the iPad's launch.

They have shown plenty of interest in the iPad, but with only one other confirmed success story to date — Samsung's Galaxy Tab — it remains to be seen if the consumer tablet market as a whole will indeed be the next big thing, as analysts still predict, or just a bunch of DOA slates that will gather dust in warehouses.

The Galaxy Tab could be the next device to make a substantial dent in the consumer tablet market, in other words, but it will likely be far from the last.

Until today, the consumer tablet market has been defined by the battle between iPad and Android.

Arriving roughly a year after Microsoft's first major foray into the consumer tablet market, the Surface 2 delivers on most of its promises.

The iPad shaped the consumer tablet market.

The company's first own - brand tablet is intended to help Android take a bigger bite out of the consumer tablet market Apple's iPad revived in 2010, but it may also end up pushing some of Google's Android partners out of the picture by undercutting them.

Near the end of the earnings call, one analyst asked Jobs about Apple's competitors - specifically, how those companies would attempt to compete with the iPad in the consumer tablet market.

The increasing popularity of the phablet, a low tablet replacement rate and saturation in the consumer tablet market are thought to be the main reasons behind the slump in sales.

It's not that the new 10.5 - inch iPad is boring, it's just that the consumer tablet market hasn't really been exciting since Apple first gave it a shot of adrenaline with the original iPad back in 2010.