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“Though Samsung, LG Electronics, Acer, Hewlett-Packard, Asus, Research In Motion, and Dell have announced or hinted at touchscreen tablets that will arrive between now and March 2011, they’re way late to the party,” Ogg reports. “Since the iPad’s debut in April, Apple has built a huge lead in this category–in terms of actual devices sold but also in many consumers’ minds.”
“The category is new–a large touch-screen device bigger than a smartphone and running a lightweight operating system wasn’t widely available to consumers prior to the iPad’s introduction–but Apple got out of the gate and hasn’t looked back,” Ogg reports. “The company is selling about 1 million iPads per month and has not noticeably slackened its pace since.”
Ogg reports, “Six months from now, just after the yearly Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the tablet landscape is going to look a lot different than today–expect to hear many iPad wannabes announced at the show. But for all of the new products introduced, there are a few key things that need to happen if they’re going to make a dent in Apple’s lead: find a tablet-oriented operating system, pull together great hardware and get app developers on their side.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]