Sentences with phrase «tablet upgrade cycle»

Apple released iPad Air and iPad Mini with Retina display in October last year, following the traditional tablet upgrade cycle of the Cupertino company.

Not exact matches

Analyst firms have previously attributed the spiraling tablet market to factors like the rise of oversized smartphones known as phablets, a lack of innovative products, and longer upgrade cycles for consumers, if they upgrade at all.

E-Readers are for the most part, immune to the same sort of upgrade cycle we see with smartphones and tablets.

A longer upgrade cycle will also hurt shipments, since many consumers prefer to spend their money on new smartphones or laptops instead of tablets, which are mainly used for social networking, web browsing, and other lightweight applications that don't require a better processor every year.

Android tablets have very short OS life cycles and have on average 1 1/2 years of OS upgrade support from the manufacturers, though there are some notable exceptions... more...

Unlike smartphones, tablet owners may hold on to their devices longer and may not follow the annual or bi-annual upgrade cycles.

Assuming that Apple maintains its tablet - upgrade cycle, we can expect to see the new slate in the spring (the iPad and iPad 2 each shipped in the spring).

Hopefully, of course, that's just an outside estimate: after all, ASUS isn't known for saddling its tablets with heavily customized skins, which can bog down the upgrade cycle.

With the introduction of the iPad, nobody was sure how often users would want to upgrade their tablets — would the pattern be closer to a smartphone or an elongated cycle, more reminiscent of laptop usage cycles?

In addition, Microsoft has faced challenges and its earnings are impacted by the slower upgrade cycle and substitute demand for tablets.

Instead of following phone upgrade cycles, tablets may more closely mirror PC upgrades, which are often more than two - year cycles.

The recent slump in tablet sales also makes sense if you accept that older people have longer upgrade cycles than younger people.

Tablet sales aren't in the doldrums, exactly, but their growth has evaporated in the face of a range of factors, from bigger smartphones to longer - than - expected upgrade cycles.

With the tablet market slowing down, and upgrade cycles being so long, Apple could perhaps have been forgiven for focussing mostly on its laptop - challenging Pro series.