Comments on: This Week Is a Coming-Out Party for Android Tablets

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[...] investors. High sales of the iPad have resulted in lower PC sales, and as Android tablets are poised to appear on the market in great numbers the impact should be even greater. These tablets use less DRAM than [...]

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By: Rdx

Rdx — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:05:53 +0000

You have never seen flas on a obile device and you want to “stick” to your iDevice, please go ahead.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:08:30 +0000

Scott, you’re absolutely right, but there’s a few key differences. Back then, Android 2.1 was just hitting. A number of tablets running Android 1.6 have been produced but they’re not selling because 1.6 isn’t even close to what Android 2.1 (and now 2.2) offers. Another variable – most of the tablets that actually came to market after CES were from smaller players. Now the “big boys” are getting involved: Samsung, LG, and Toshiba to name a few.

Simply put: the time wasn’t right for viable Android tablets this past January. Now that the software has matured and we have solid hardware (think 1 GHz or better processors) to run the platform, I expect we’ll see viable Android tablets as opposed to the poor attempts of the past.

By: HG

HG — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:00:40 +0000

I also picked up the iPad when it was released and so far it is filling the gap between my Macbook Pro, and Netbook. I can see these newer devices trying to get some of the tablet market, but Apple is ahead so far. Mainly in my opinion is the App Store. I don’t need flash so I will be sticking to my iPad for now.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:53:10 +0000

Kevin, there were Android tablet *announcements* at CES eight months ago – as you well know, since you were there. I don’t see how additional announcements for not-yet-available hardware is any more of a “coming-out” than we’ve already had.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:29:48 +0000

That’s the rumor – which I tend to believe. Right now, it’s Verizon-Android and AT&T-iOS in terms of major U.S. mobile strategy, so it definitely fits. And I agree with you: not everyone wants a mobile device that’s tied to a carrier for 2 years, so here’s hoping there’s a Wi-Fi version.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:51:10 +0000

Isn’t the Samsung tablet tied to Verizon Wireless? If there isn’t a wifi only version then it’ll be a huge FAIL.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:36:43 +0000

Good point, Les, but if consumers didn’t want or buy apps, there would be no revs for the devs. ;) Definitely a case for both consumers and creators to drive the mobile app economy.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:35:13 +0000

I hear you, but we actually haven’t changed from the full RSS feed that I know of. However, I think I see what happened as I just went to our network-wide feed.

This story was originally published here on GigaOM and in the RSS feed, the full text shows. We thought the post might be of interest to jkOTR readers – clearly it is, because that’s where you saw it! ;) The feed for a crosspost only shows the excerpt, because that’s what you also see on jkOTR. Complicated, but I think that’s why you didn’t see the full post in RSS. Had you been looking at the GigaOM feed, it’s all there. Hope that helps explain…