“In addition to Apple’s rumored 12.85-inch tablet, Samsung Electronics has already launched a 12.2-inch Android-based enterprise tablet, while Asustek Computer is planning to release a 13.3-inch dual-OS tablet,” Jim Hsiao reports for DigiTimes.
“However, most of the large-size tablet projects face difficulties because of lack of support from related platform developers and ecosystems,” Hsiao reports. “Apple has also been said to shelved its large-size tablet project.”
“Samsung flooded the market with several tablets of different sizes and specifications in January and is pushing its 12.2-inch tablet with a new user interface and multi-tasking ability, features that are designed for the enterprise market,” Hsiao reports. “But Samsung tablet has a weaker price/performance ratio compared to notebooks of the similar price range. Worse still, most of Android’s enterprise applications are inferior to those on the PC platform. The Samsung tablet’s new user interface also deviates much from the usual Andriod experience, to the dismay of Google. Therefore, Digitimes Research expects Samsung’s new 12.2-inch tablet to only achieve shipments of around one million units in 2014.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz,” “Dan K.,” and “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]