back to article Fierce tablet fight to be rough for Apple's rivals

Here's a notion: there will be so many tablet wannabes fighting for market share in the second half of the year that rather a lot of them will be left with unsold stock on their warehouse shelves. Whether they are pitching Android offerings, Windows machines or both, "non-Apple" tablet sellers risk being stuck with excess …

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  1. thecakeis(not)alie

    A title?

    The lack of an Asus Transformer in my hands says that there is unlikely to be much overstock.

  2. yinch

    Choose your battles

    The market performance of the tablets by Motorola and Samsung tablets have been weak because they have (naively and foolishly) attempted to make a full frontal assault on the ipad segment.

    Specifically, they have tried to out-spec the ipad at the high-end price point.

    For THAT much money, people aren't buying specs, they are buying prestige. And there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that Motoroal and Samsung will be able to out-prestige Apple at that price point.

    Imho, the real growth will be seen in the mid- to low-end tablet market spaces. This segment has does not have an entrenched market leader. Also the volumes at this price point will be much higher (albeit at narrower margins). Look at how the smartphones have played out - the Android's growth has been huge - not because they have been stealing iphone sales (which doubled over the same period - while maintaining the same marketshare) - but because they tapped into a new segment.

  3. yella
    FAIL

    Demand vs Common Sense

    The main problem is that there is demand for these devices, the problem is they are either under spec'd over spec'd and the price for both are way off the mark.

    The only one that is on the honey spot so far is the Asus Transformer with the keyboard at 429 pounds.

    People are not going to pay over the top for either under or over spec'd devices, the consumer is much more savvy with there money especially in todays market place.

    Even if there is high demand, people are not going to pay over the top for any Apple alternative with the benchmark sat on a nice 399pound margin. No matter if it has that little bit extra than a iPad.

    Apple are well known for having the expensive hardware and that your buying into that prestige as mentioned in the post above. Any company trying to compete with this is bound to fail, especially on there first gen tablets.

    No matter what sort of spin they are going to provide, unless its cost effective to the consumer its bound to fail.

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