“In a striking sign of how the iPad dominates the tablet market, Android phone owners will likely bypass tablets powered by Google’s Honeycomb for Apple, one Wall Street analyst told investors Friday,” Ed Sutherland reports for Cult of Mac.
MacDailyNews Take: Once burned, twice shy.
“Cannacord Genuity analyst Mike Walkley said some Android-based tablets could compete against the iPad, but not until at least 2013,” Sutherland reports. “However, Apple is building a massive base of 250 million iOS users at the end of fiscal 2011 – nearly doubling by the end of 2012, Walkley writes. The growing iOS user base coupled with an expected 40 percent replacement rate prompts him to expect 50 million ‘iOS replacement sales’ in fiscal 2011, 100 million in fiscal 2012 and 200 million in fiscal 2013.”
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Sutherland reports, “In addition, carrier checks find the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 were top-sellers at AT&T and Verizon.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Make sense, After all, why settle for inferior simulations when you don’t have to?
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