A stunning lack of differentiation from rival offerings left Apple's iPad 2 as the only indisputable
tablet success story in 2011, but many analysts and industry watchers seem to think the tide will turn the coming year.
Skinniness is essential
for tablet success these days - though, as HP found, selling one for next to nothing is a good idea too.
Fielding a device that impresses above and beyond what's already out there, at a price point that turns heads is a basic requirement for
Android tablet success at this point, from HP or from anyone else.
While Windows is dominant in the personal - computer market, it hasn't extended
into tablet success yet.
Google's Android is another player that has been serving the anti Apple camp so far though apart from the Kindle Fire, there has been no
single tablet success story so far.
Google and ASUS» Nexus 7 has been one of the
budget tablet success stories of the year, and today it's an even more tempting buy for customers in the UK.
Barnes & Noble's been talking up
its tablet success without providing sales figures, but now there's at least one number behind the claims: the company says its overall Nook sales are up 85 percent to $ 220 million in its last fiscal quarter.
However, he expects
its tablet success to pick up with the Windows 8: «We are very aligned with Microsoft around Windows 8.