Subject | Re: Asus shows an updated Transformer Prime & beats Apple to the punch w/higher res HD display |
From | Sandman |
Date | 01/12/2012 17:35 (01/12/2012 17:35) |
Message-ID | <mr-37C766.17355412012012@News.Individual.NET> |
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Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.advocacy |
Follows | flint |
Not really, no.flintflintSandman
Will this be sustainable? I seriously doubt it. Apple was first to market, and has enjoyed a two year lead on everyone else, granted. But they've hardly 'locked it up', especially since Windows 8 hasn't hit yet, and looks to become a more cohesive OS ecosystem strategy out of the gate than OS X/iOS. IOW, the real competition in tablet space hasn't even really begun yet.
Which begs the question; why can't Android be a serious contender in this space?
Android is growing in this sector
but this isn't the point. Win 8(ARM) is on its way, and even AMD's procs have been demo'd in a few models of upcoming Android and Win 8(x86) tablets at CES this week.Which has nothing to do with what I just wrote. Do you ever read?
While you're busy making a habit out of trying to obfuscate yourself out of every corner you paint yourself into, the real world is just on another bus.flintIn tablet space in general, perhaps. I haven't seen actual sales figures for the Kindle, have you? In 10" tablet space, Asus is easily #2, however. But if you're taking tablet space in toto, are you trying to say 7" = 10" now? Although I know a lot of guys would like their women to believe that, comparing Apple's iPad to a 7" tablet just makes as little sense as comparing notebooks to desktops.Sandman
How so? Isn't the iMac 27" and the iMac 21" in the same market segment. Isn't the Macbook Pro 15" and the Macbook Pro 17" in the same market segment? Are you seriously dividing up the market by size?
Oh yes, and the iMac 21" comes in at ~>1/2< the price of a 27" model too, right?
Oh wait...
Not even a link? What's this, amateur hour? Stop making claims! Just stop! You're no good at it! :) 2 million would be pretty pathetic, really. So there virtually is no '7" market.'flintBesides, technically, it's the #1 tablet in the 7" tablet space (for the moment), but somehow I think Asus is going to upset that cart. Their track record so far in tablet space (in general) is pretty respectable.Sandman
What are their sales figures? "respectable" is just another weasel word, you know.
Last figure I read was around 1.8-2 million units by the end of 2011.
Crickets...Until then, Apple has no entry in 7" tablet space ->that's< the significant factor, regardless of its current iPad sales.Sandman
And the funny thing is that many trolls want to make it seem like Apple advocates invent silly metrics to put Apple in a good light. :-D
Crickets...Either way. This way - Apple is owning the 3.5" tablet space with the iPod touch.
Whomever they may be.Haha :) Yes, trolls in csma have a good track record of what suggestions that would be "good for Apple" :-Dflint
No more so than Apple cultists who justify everything Apple does.
So you think Apple will never consider a smaller, less costly iPad?I think they have considered it since day one, and you're seeing the result of that consideration. I have made no claims about whether such a size would be good or bad, but in your fanboy mind, I'm sure I'll be remembered as some "mac cultist" who claimed that all 7" tablets suck and if Apple ever would release one and I would make a favorable claim about it, that would further cement your simplistic view of the world.