Lucian Armasu
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12 years ago @ 9 to 5 Mac | Apple Int... - New iPad's A5x chip be... · 0 replies · -2 points
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12 years ago @ asymco - The Verizon small bang · 0 replies · -2 points
Android's total user base is 39% in USA and keeps growing (to reach parity with the 50% quarterly sales), and iPhone's user base is 29%, according to the recent stat from Nielsen.
12 years ago @ asymco - The Verizon small bang · 0 replies · -3 points
I find it very amusing how everyone now thinks that i was so OBVIOUS Android would get this kind of market share. Perhaps the people commenting now about this aren't the same people commenting about 1.5 years ago, but I remember very well that the odds against Android were huge against Android and it wasn't a very popular opinion at all to say Android will overcome iPhone with 100k apps and 25% of quarterly sales for smartphones in USA, when Android had in the hundreds of several thousands of apps and like 2-4% market share.
In fact the sentiment about Android tablets right now is very much like the sentiment about Android smartphones back then. I imagine 2 years from now, people will say it was so obvious Android tablets will overtake iPad, too. Maybe I should save these posts somewhere for reference later :)
12 years ago @ asymco - The Verizon small bang · 2 replies · -2 points
But even if they simply fork it, and they actually successful doing that (also one of the reason oPhone failed), it will only be for the China market, which granted is a huge market, but it won't really corrode Android in any way. Also, the China market is not the whole Asian market. So Android will remain at 50% market share instead of the potential 70% - what can I say, I'm not even sure I'd want them to go to 70%. That's too big for one company to have (just look at all the problems Microsoft created in the past by having 90% market share).
But Aliyun corroding Android in a big way is VERY optimistic of you, either way.
12 years ago @ asymco - The Verizon small bang · 12 replies · -7 points
12 years ago @ 9to5 Google - Beyond G... - Survey: Buyers want su... · 0 replies · +1 points
The quad core Tegra 3 tablet should also be $400. $450 is nice, too. But $400 would be the sweet spot. You need a significantly smaller price than iPad even for high-end similarly specced Android tablets, because iPad still has a big advantage in branding and in number of apps. So at least until Android tablets become more popular, they should take advantage of lower pricing, while still being well built and having high quality displays, and with good processors. The rest of the specs are pretty irrelevant.
Motorola got it backwards with Xoom. They thought all the other specs ARE relevant, so they just wanted to make a huge bullet point list of features, and they also thought price is irrelevant. Huge mistake, which was proven in the market. Consumers only care about the tablet being priced right (especially compared to iPad right now), well built and nicely designed, having a gorgeous screen, and for tech influencers, to have a cutting edge chip in them, too (depending on price level). All the other specs matter much less, so they can cut into them almost as deep as they want.
12 years ago @ ConceivablyTech - WebGL Security - Kill ... · 1 reply · +1 points