Punters favour Amazon to block Apple tablet flood So you don't want an iPad, but you are keen on taking hold of a tablet. Which one are you going to go for? If a survey of fondleslab-fond shoppers is anything to go by, it'll be an Amazon job. US price comparison site Retrevo asked a thousand website browsers about their tablet buying plans. Beyond Apple, Amazon was the clear …
this kinda sucks for all the other manufacturers then.
over half the people asked would rather wait in the hope that a future, rumoured product will be better than the current ipad, instead of buying one of the currently available alternatives
wasn't there a similar survey last year about how most people were going to wait for the RIM Playbook - and we know how well that turned out!
"it asks "Are you planning to buy one this year" and **all** the answers are variations on "Yes".
Credible?"
The original version of the pie-chart has a little disclaimer at the bottom indicating that they have only used the "Yes" answers. If you go to the source you can see the original chart but the survey was "Of people who want a tablet this year, who will buy what".
What a daft question.
It seems to imply that if a lowly ranked manufacturer brought out an awesome product in the next year, nobody would buy it. In reality, people would reassess their plans because of the newly available product - just like people reassessed their plans to buy RIM Playbooks when it turned out the product was underwhelming.
Some are dumping their iPads for Android tablets - had someone get upset with me the other day when I turned another someone on to the Acer Iconia tablet (Staples had a $100 off coupon for any tablet other than Hp - good through the 30th) because he had already arranged for that person to buy his iPad2 - he wants an Android tablet.
Go figure, eh? What does that say?
:)
Oh I already know someone who has Apple Everything as far as "real" computers are concerned. That much will probably not change.
However, for him the iPad is way too big, way too expensive and a complete disappointment when we both thought it was going to be a tablet computer rather than a really big iPod. He seems to like the 7" form factor of this Galaxy Tab though, not to mention the iPhone4 owner I know who asked me "why can't I do that" when I started playing with alternative app launchers. I do try to keep any bile to a minimum outside of Register comment sections and other online fora, but I just couldn't think of any more tactful answer than "because Apple won't let anybody make one".
And yes, those survey questions are really, really poor. You don't buy Samsung gear from Samsung, but you might buy it from Amazon!
It's just plain nonsense to put Amazon and iPad in the same chart. The Kindle is meant to read books whereas the iPad is a mobile computing device.
Of course you can read books on the iPad, but it's painful to the eyes (especially if you've already spent the whole day working in front of a computer) and those who've tried to bring their iPad to the beach (or the park) to read a book on a sunny day have clearly understood the benfits of the Kindle e-Ink technology.
As far as the average consumer is concerned your distinction is completely artificial. To the average consumer a tablet is a monolithic computerized device with a touch screen taking up most of one side. IOW it's the way the thing looks, not what they choose to do with it that matters. If all they want to do is read then where's the beef?
I just don't see the point of the ipad and it's ilk. Or rather I can't see that I would ever have a use for such a device. I can see the point of the Kindle, but think the media is overpriced.
Basically when FORCED to choose among non apple choices, the best of the rest is amazon but note, through they also note they will NOT pay more than 250 for a non iPad which pretty muhsaysnothing since no one can create a 10" tablet and make money other than apple. Amazon sold kindles for 4 years - apple outsold kindles after 3 months -amazon has NEVER -announced sales numbers for kindles, why? They are humble? Bwahaha ... Amazon is a great company but asking them to compete with apple is like comparing an suv to a fighter jet ... They are two entirely different companies.
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