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This trend, along with the decline of the netbook market, helps to explain why Windows sales were soft in Microsoft’s most recent quarter
There was no must-have toy of Christmas 2011 — for youngsters, anyway.
For adults, tablet computers and e-readers were the gifts of choice, judging by a new report that indicates the number of adults in the United States who own tablets and e-readers nearly doubled from mid-December to early January.
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The increased ownership of tablets was especially pronounced among highly educated people with household incomes of more than $75,000. Almost one-third of people with college degrees now own tablet computers, the report… Continue reading: Tablet and E-Reader Sales Soar – NYTimes.com
Perhaps these tablets will be available at the same stores offering “the majority of televisions” by summer 2012 with embedded Google TV capabilities (and/or perhaps Eric Schmidt should reconsider talking with the European press)
Google chairman Eric Schmidt said this week that the company will produce an Android tablet of "the highest quality" in the next six months to better compete with Apple’s market-dominating iPad. In an interview published Monday by the Italian-language Corriere della Sera, Schmidt praised the late Steve Jobs as "the Michelangelo of our time" but promised a "brutal competition" between Google and Apple in mobile communications and the smartphone market.
Google Promises ‘Highest Quality’ Tablet in 2012 | News… Continue reading: Google Promises ‘Highest Quality’ Tablet in 2012 | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
Another Android tablet contender (that’s also like a skinny Chromebook in some respects)
I’ve been testing the Transformer Prime, and I found it to be the best standard Android tablet I’ve used. In my tests, the Prime had snappy performance, and decent battery life, though less than the iPad’s (more on that later). It is a tad lighter and thinner than the iPad 2 and has a sharp, pleasant screen.
The Transformer Prime tablet starts at $499. Keyboard dock is an extra $149
Personal Technology: Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime Review – Walt Mossberg – Personal Technology… Continue reading: Personal Technology: Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime Review – Walt Mossberg – Personal Technology – AllThingsD
Check the article link below for a snapshot of the extent to which the tablet market is a disaster for vendors other than Amazon, Apple, and Barnes & Noble
Why is it so hard to make a successful tablet? Companies are failing for the same reasons that a string of tablet devices flopped before the iPad came to market, says Sarah Rotman-Epps, an analyst with Forrester Research. Lack of content and capability are the key reasons.
“It’s the same story as it has been from the beginning,” Ms. Rotman-Epps said. “They’re all trying to sell tablets as if they were PCs. Verizon marketed all these tablets with 4G and gigabytes of storage. What… Continue reading: Flops Pile Up in the Tablet Market – NYTimes.com
From the brief description of this article, I thought perhaps it was the latest marketing angle for the RIM PlayBook…
Available in time for the holidays, it starts up in Kid Mode — a password-protected gated community of sites, apps, music and videos of your choosing. Unlike an iPad, this tablet runs Flash, so your bookmarks can include sites like PBS Kids. There’s a front-facing camera that can be used to Skype with a grandparent, and accelerometers that let you steer a race car in Need for Speed Shift — one the 15 apps that were preloaded on the unit I tested. The sound is so-so; stereo headphone jacks supplement the audio.
… Continue reading: Hands Off, Mom and Dad. This Tablet Is for Children. – NYTimes.com
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