Sentences with phrase «said tablet vendors»
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Buying Motorola will enable Lenovo to join Apple Inc. as the only major technology companies with global product lines in PCs, smartphones and tablets, putting Lenovo in a better position to become a one - stop shop for companies to buy all their devices from the same vendor, said Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett.
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Major vendors are pushing the boundaries of all three major mobile operating systems and hardware configurations to transform the tablet into a content creation device,» said Smith.
«One of the greatest opportunities this year is for development, manufacturing and marketing of tablets on a regional and even local level, which shakes up the vendor ecosystem of the past four years,» said ABI Research analyst Jeff Orr while speaking to TabTimes.
It knows that combining its own app store with its content and storage would allow it to compete extremely well with Motorola, Samsung, RIM and all of the other tablet vendors, since its offering would be pretty close to what Apple has,» he said.
«Tablets are no longer the focus of the (PC) market but have become low - pricing products, helping vendors increase market shares,» TrendForce notebook analyst Kou - Han Tseng said in a media advisory.
Leading Taiwanese computer vendor Acer on Monday unveiled the industry's first 8.1 - inch tablet running on Microsoft's Windows 8 software, a move which analysts said highlighted the software giant's bid to make inroads into...
«With media tablets offering more functionality, e-reader vendors need to target avid readers who may see the value of a stand - alone device that performs particularly well,» said Allen Weiner, research vice president at Gartner.
IDC said Apple remained the largest tablet vendor with 16.4 million iPads sold in the first quarter.
«Most impressive about Apple's 17 million tablet shipments in the second quarter was it nearly matched 2010 total worldwide shipments of 17.3 million for all vendors,» says Jeff Orr, an ABI analyst.
IDC said Amazon, which does not provide its own sales data, delivered some six million tablets in the quarter to retain its spot as the number three vendor.
«Most impressive about Apple's 17.0 million tablet shipments in 2Q» 2012 was it nearly matched 2010 total worldwide shipments of 17.3 million for all vendors,» said ABI analyst Jeff Orr.
New product launches from the category's top vendors, as well as new entrant Microsoft, led to a surge in consumer interest and very robust shipments totals during the holiday season,» said Tom Mainelli, tablet research director at IDC.
«The introduction of detachables from traditional smartphone vendors is only beginning and pose a real threat to traditional PC manufacturers,» said Jean Philippe Bouchard, research director for tablets at IDC.
«The market is all over the place on OS versions of Android and device hardware, so an online store with a Google - branded tablet could give Google a chance to establish a reference [design] that other vendors would have to move toward to reduce fragmentation,» Gold said.
Finally, Gold said an online store would help Google get «major numbers of tablets sold to compete head - on with iPads... this [online store] could stimulate market interest and get more devices sold from all the Android vendors.»
«Assuming that competing tablets from other vendors do arrive in the second half of the year as expected, we believe that the iPad will account for a significant portion - but not all - of the projected 11 million units,» ABI Principal Analyst Jeff Orr said in a statement.
Interestingly, Gartner says many PC vendors were banking on media tablets to boost their growth in the second half of 2011, but given the collapse of the non-Apple part of the media tablet market, most have refocused on getting PCs into retailers.
Strategy Analytics says that cheaper tablets from Google, Amazon, Samsung and white box vendors have all been surging lately while Apple has struggled to make a low - cost tablet capable of competing in high - growth emerging markets.
He wouldn't provide a specific timeline, but Shin said that Samsung will soon surpass Apple to become the top tablet vendor in the world.
«Desktop and laptop vendors, like HP, continue to prioritize Windows, but tablet vendors, such as Samsung, are prioritizing Android at the expense of Windows for now,» said Strategy Analytics» Neil Mawston.
«Many vendors have introduced media tablets, but none are separating themselves from the pack to pose a serious threat to Apple,» said Jeff Orr, ABI Research mobile devices group director, in a statement.
«De-featured, low - cost media tablets are being introduced by more than 50 vendors in 2011,» Orr said.
«Strong holiday sales of media tablets were in line with IDC projections and strong consumer interest in the category while device vendors scrambled to offer products competitive with Apple's iPad and now iPad 2,» said Loren Loverde, vice president, Consumer Device Trackers.
First, consumers are keeping their tablets, especially higher - cost models from major vendors, far longer than originally anticipated,» said IDC analyst Tom Mainelli.
«Not every tablet vendor can afford to utilize this business model,» he said.
Even the success stories among tablet vendors are exhibiting less - than - stellar sell - through, with companies like ASUS, creator of the popular Eee Pad Transformer, said to have left nearly 30 % of the 700,000 tablets it shipped between May and July on store shelves.
«The introduction of detachables from traditional smartphone vendors is only beginning and pose a real threat to traditional PC manufacturers,» said Jean Philippe Bouchard, Research Director, Tablets at IDC.
Analyst Jeff Orr says, «Many vendors have introduced media tablets, but none are separating themselves from the pack to pose a serious threat to Apple.»
While most vendors say they can offer their products for use on a tablet, there aren't a lot of tools to manage in - house work from an iPhone, even though there are customer relationship management tools that are now available as apps.