Is this premium
tablet lineup still worth the money or has that shipped sailed like the Netbook?
Not exact matches
Samsung
still leads all iPad competitors, however, thanks in part to the variety of its
tablet hardware
lineup.
In an interview CEO Michael Tamblyn, he said that their
tablet lineup is
still very competitive with everything else available on the market, there was no need to give it a refresh.
The iPhone usually gets fancy new features (Siri, Touch ID) first, and
still has the best cameras, but with the iPad Air 2, Apple is differentiating its
tablet lineup from its smartphone
lineup.
This could have been solved by Apple launching more versions of the iPad's than just the current
lineup of iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina, but as we know, this has not been Apple's strategy, unlike Samsung who have launched 14 new
tablets this year already, and we are
still only half way through 2014.
Still, it's good that Samsung, one of the more aggressive Android
tablet vendors, has started to update its
tablet lineup to Android 4.0, which is the first version of the software that brings together separate versions previously designed for smartphones and
tablets.
With the expanded Kindle Fire
lineup Amazon is clearly reacting to the threat of the Nexus 7 and the
still yet to be confirmed iPad Mini
tablet from Apple that is supposed to make iuts debut next month following this month's launch of the iPhone.
ASUS's 12 - inch Eee Slate EP121 was the first
tablet in ASUS» 2011
lineup to be released, as expected and today's report from Digitimes confirms the rest of the Eee Pad... /
tablet lineup is
still on schedule, and with Honeycomb despite some earlier news reporting
Size wise, it's
still 7.9 inches when measured diagonally and it continues to be the smallest
tablet in Apple's iPad
lineup, which also includes the 9.7 - inch iPad Air 2 and the 12.9 - inch iPad Pro.
Furthermore, we might be witnessing the best in the Android
tablet lineup, but
still good enough to make Apple executives shake with utter fear.
Kindle slates are
still the second most desired
tablet series behind Apple's iPad
lineup according to one study, and while Samsung passed Amazon last year to steal the No. 2 spot in terms of global
tablet shipment volume, Samsung is stumbling right now and its new
tablets are anything but impressive.