While Windows is dominant in the personal - computer market, it hasn't extended
into tablet success yet.
Not exact matches
Where one ‑ to ‑ one
tablet use is concerned,
success or failure will be measured by how well the new technology is integrated
into the daily business of teaching and learning.
Here's the skinny on how big that market actually is, who's buying what, how apps and 4G connectivity figure
into their
success and much more, courtesy of research firm Mintel, which released a study on the
tablet industry.
That Samsung is
into making a
tablet device has been in the news since a few months after the iPad was launched and went on to become a raging
success.
Amazon will continue to sell their monochrome E Ink Kindles, but with the huge
success of the Nook Color from last year, they are looking to expand
into the color ereader /
tablet market for those wanting to add some color to their reading experience.
With the
success of
tablets and e-readers, many students are scrapping their physical textbooks and moving
into a most cost effective digital frontier.
The Xoom is pivitol to the
success of Motorolas foray
into the world of next generation
tablets featuring the newest iteration of Google Honeycomb.
LG admits that its first foray
into tablet computing wasn't exactly a roaring
success.
The popularity and
success of the iPhone in launching a new wave of smart phones is considered a prime example of why rivals need to get
into the
tablet market before Apple comes out with a device that could have consumers thinking any other
tablet is second - best.
The company had successfully broken
into the Android
tablet market with the Kindle Fire
tablets, but unfortunately that
success did not follow the Fire Phone.
For Android to continue its
success and for Android
tablets to match the iPad, Google and its OEMs need to get
into a room and hash out the upgrade situation — not just for
tablets, for phones, too.
While it might not have been the first
tablet computer, Apple's iPad certainly breathed life
into a category that had previously found
success in the business world and certain niche markets.
On Wednesday, Amazon announced it was pushing to get its Kindle e-readers and
tablet computers
into the education sector, a move that will bring it
into even stiffer competition with Apple, which has seen some
successes in getting schools to look to its iPad as an educational tool.
Amazon's Kindle Fire... blew
into the
tablet market with a strong measure of
success as a low cost 7 inch
tablet.
Add
into that the benefits of the
tablet's integration with Amazon services and you have a recipe for ongoing
success.
Apple's first foray
into the seven - inch sized
tablet world has been a great
success from a product standpoint, with a limited amount of issues reported for the device.
LG admits that its first foray
into tablet computing wasn't exactly a roaring
success.
The world's largest online retailer has definitely had its ups and downs trying to branch out
into several divisions of the consumer electronics industry, failing miserably with the Fire Phone while selling millions of Kindle e-readers back in the day and carrying that
success into the
tablet market.
The claim appears in an interview in today's Wall Street Journal, in which Dell traces the meteoric rise of Android over the past 18 months and predicts that the platform's entrance
into the
tablet market will achieve similar
success.
Adding new Chrome OS
tablets and detachables
into the mix could expand the market for the OS, and therefore Android apps as well, especially in the education market where Chromebooks have already been a solid sales
success.