Comments on: The Definitive Guide to iPads vs. Android Tablets http://www.pcmech.com/article/the-definitive-guide-to-ipads-vs-android-tablets/ Tech Powered Life... Simplified Tue, 14 May 2013 18:56:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Saverio http://www.pcmech.com/article/the-definitive-guide-to-ipads-vs-android-tablets/#comment-95058 Saverio Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:11:20 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=18013#comment-95058 Samsung has neither the financial nor the political power Apple has, and I believe that’s the only reason why people buy more Apple than Samsung. Not because the former is any better than the latter. Acting as a patent troll has also helped Apple at maintaining its market supremacy.

]]> By: Frank Llenas http://www.pcmech.com/article/the-definitive-guide-to-ipads-vs-android-tablets/#comment-95056 Frank Llenas Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:10:16 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=18013#comment-95056 You forgot to mention the beauty of how iOS mesh with the iPad and its applications. Unlike the crazy world of android and its hit and miss upgrade path.
You well know that android devices could be left running an old android version because the makers of androids phones and tablets ( Samsung anyone? ) don’t care about users just about the next hardware release. So your shiny six months old tablet could be left out of the next google upgrade because by then, Samsung has introduced another half a dozen models.
Samsung strategy: spaghetti tablets. Throw and hope one sticks. And after more than a dozen tablets brought to market, Samsung market share is a “grand” +-4%. Even lower than the kindle fire with just two models. For your information, last year Samsung introduced over 30 phone models, Apple, 1. And still Appe gathers 74% of all profits. Not a bad business model I suppose.

Face this fact. There is a core of buyers, small, that buy android. The other 95-98 %, are what I call price buyers. They prefer an iPhone or an iPad, but when they will give you one for free, they take it. I have done that myself.
In the UK, Samsung throws in a galaxy tablet when you buy certain phone and plan. Still, that has not helped Samsung tablets market share. Or the spiff, cash, Samsung is paying phone and tablet salesmen all over the world to push their products. If you ask anyone in the third world, and that is what everyone is talking about for new growth nowadays, what phone or tablet they want, they will tell you iPhone, iPad. Go ahead, do some traveling instead of writing just behind your desk, check it for yourself.

So in fact, there is a lot more that differentiate the iPad and android tablets. Customer service, steady upgrades, non-early obsolence due to years of support, superb resale value, you can finish it for me…but android has none of that. And last, manufacturers integrity.
Apple does not have to bribe anyone for their products to sell.

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