“Apple’s dominance of the tablet market may be on the wan, as Android-based tablets are said to make up nearly half the market,” Electronista reports.
“This according to a Pew poll out recently showing that, among US tablet owners, 48 percent own a tablet running some version of Google’s Android operating system,” Electronista reports. “Between July 16 and August 7 of this year, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism asked 1,096 US adults about their tablets. Among tablet owners, 52 percent said they owned an Apple iPad. Twenty-one percent of respondents said they owned a Kindle Fire from Amazon. The rest of Android’s 48 percent share was made up of an assortment of other manufacturers, with Samsung’s Galaxy Tab the next largest contender at eight percent.”
Electronista reports, “The survey was conducted before the introduction of Google’s Nexus 7 or Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HD, both of which have reportedly been seeing brisk sales. The numbers from this newest poll show a considerable reversal from last year, which found Apple with an 81 percent share of the tablet market, compared to 15 percent for Android and four percent for other manufacturers.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Pew poll, indeed.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Joe Architect” for the heads up.]
They call the fire a tablet – all most people do is try to read books on them as they think that is all they are for.. Still no threat..
Here we go. The clueless iHaters army are gonna run with this one like a bunch of nut jobs!
All I can say is if 48% have androids, and yet 98% of mobile web traffic comes from iOS devices, they must be being used as doorstops.
What it comes down to are two factors.
First, 48% don’t have Androids, since the Kindles aren’t Android(TM) as per Google Legal … they’re forks in the code. The above numbers state that only 21% are Android(TM).
Second, the above distinction is important, because they represent two different use cases that are being aggregated into a single category because of similarities in hardware: there’s iPad-esque multimedia devices, and then there are Kindle-esque book reader devices …and this distinction becomes more evident when one then looks at the differences in consumer behavior of bandwidth consumption (ie, web traffic).
As such, there’s a very obvious “Apples vs Oranges” comparison happening here, even if the ‘market survey’ people don’t themselves identify the presence of this consumer-centric market segmentation. We may as just be talking about dump trucks vs. motorcycles 😉
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Eloquently put!
Like the name, it stinks to high heaven.
Muahahahahahahahahahaha!
Oh no! Did I hitch my wagon to the wrong star??? Should I have lit the bonfire of my vanity with Kindling instead?
They made a mistake. What they meant to say is that android had 48% of the leftovers.
Yeah 1000 people equal whole market. Stupid FUD
Google fan boys will buy any neg bull shit published about Apple, they are one bunch of stupid mothers.
And iSheeps are dangerously stupid.
@Gary J.
The plural of sheep is sheep, so what the f*@#k is iSheeps? Oh, don’t tell me, as an iHater you are probably not very literate anyway.
Chill.
Actually, I thing the Tablet honors go to the Big Chief.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Chief_tablet
I thing. Jeez, I can’t believe I did that.
Huh? Is it just me or is the media just a huge joke nowadays? I mean, I can’t hardly read anything without noticing some sort of spin or agenda behind it.
Maybe it’s just that I’m getting older and wiser, but holy crap… So much nonsense out there, so many gullible people eating it up, spreading it around. People actually get paychecks to misinform other people.
This planet is going to collapse in on itself becoming the “Bullshit Singularity” of the universe.
According to a Pew poll, it’s just you.
It’s not just you. Many of us out here agree.
The news media is a joke.
No honor, truth, scruples or research. They would stab their child for a buck and put their mother in prison for two bucks. They are almost as bad as lawyers.
They think ‘scruples’ are Russian currency and ‘morales’ are paintings on a wall.
48% of people with an Android tablet use an android tablet.
You got that right M.
the other 52% of those who own an AndyBot-Tablot
keep them turned off… finding them useless and a waist of money.
Caller ID said “Gallup Poll” so I answered (yesterday).
“Hi this is Nathan with Gallup, we’re conducting a survey about adult beverages. Do you have 10 minutes?”
“Sure,” I said.
“Is there a female between the ages of 27 and 40 in the household.”
“No,” I said.
“Thank you. This concludes our survey.”
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I no longer believe in the outcome of surveys, as they are clearly designed to derive the answers someone is looking for.
Instead of “No” you should have said “As often as possible”
That would have given them a real conundrum.. hehehe
These polls numbers come from the people actually dumb enough to answer the phone – Oh thats right they use Android….
Just go on Craigslist and Kindle Fires with the description “barely used” are selling for under $100. You can’t give them away.
1st Joke…a Company named Pew.
2nd joke…the rest of it…Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism (a Center for Excellence in Journalism??? The name suggests that there is no excellence in journalism, hence the need for one.
3rd joke…’They were asked about their tablets’????:What was the question put to the recipients? Did you originally have an Android but dropped that POS for an iPad? Yes? ok thanks. Ok, mark up another android owner. Thanks,
While I understand that the Fire is considered a tablet, I think a classification of type of tablet needs to be clarified. I don’t think the Fire is used for engineering and medical records like the iPad is. So while it may sell really well, I’m wondering why they are counted in the same class.
A supposed tablet left in a drawer somewhere is like a tree falling in a forest. If no one sees it, does it exist?
Don’t deceive yourselves into believing that Android tablets aren’t selling – they are! And they’re getting much better. As with phones, they will overtake the iPad very soon in volume. The iPad mini will slow the trend, but the trend will continue due to the low price point of Android tablets.
But don’t confuse volume with quality. iPad is clearly winning here.
Yes, they are selling. In Canada there are 3 cable TV networks that are giving away Android Tablets and Blackberry Tablets for a 2 year sign-up.
Then you have Amazon selling Kindles for less than cost.
How long will they lose money on this crap before they give up?
98% of tablet web traffic can’t be wrong.
We know the PEW poll is flawed because of empirical sales data that includes Android Channel Stuffing. Anecdotally I’d say it’s about 20 to 1 iPad to Android
> 1,096 US adults about their tablets. Among tablet owners…
It’s not even 1,000 people surveyed, because they asked “1096” (supposedly random) adults. Most “US adults” probably do not own a tablet computer at this point, so the number of people surveyed who actually owned a tablet computer is probably well under 200, maybe even less than 100.
And if it was not a random sampling of 1096 adults (it targeted people who already own tablets), then the survey’s methodology is biased, based on whatever the “Pew” wanted to find as the outcome.
One interesting note: Amazon Kindle-21%. So even in this survey Google has been forked out of 40% of its own ecosystem.
“…on the wan…”?? As in ashen, gray, waxen?
Okay, Pew, I believe you where a thousand others wouldn’t. For example:
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/27/apple-ipad-dominates-tablet-based-web-browsing-with-98-share-report-says
“A study released on Thursday claims the iPad accounts for nearly of all web traffic originating from tablets, and 54.5 percent of all traffic from mobile devices, to sites running the touch-centric Onswipe platform…Apple’s tablet represented 98.1 percent of 29.5 million unique impressions over 1200 sites from Sept. 13 to Sept. 20.”
But who is using them?? most of the web traffic generated from tablets are from ios devices!!! Cant understand why people would buy an android tablet if they dont use them.
So you buy an OtherPad and you don’t use it. What is the ‘status symbol’ here versus the functional device?
“I have a tablet computer and you don’t!” says the Android buying sucker. “Unfortunately, it sucks”, thinks their subconscious.
Meanwhile, the iPad users are busy doing stuff:
Study shows Apple iPad dominates with 98.1% of all tablet web traffic
Why rely on a survey when we have actual sales numbers in which to measure marketshare?
CONCLUSION: Sell stuff at a LO$$ so you can BUY MARKET SHARE. Old story. Enjoy your junk OtherPads kiddies…
…Until the iPad envy sets in.