In what must come as a surprise only to the babbling Android fan-boys, a new study from market researcher Gartner forecasts that Apple iPads will continue to lord over the tablet market into 2015.
The number-crunchers at Gartner see Apple commanding a market-share of over 50% until 2014.
For the current year, the iPad is projected to account for 73.4% of worldwide media tablet sales, down from 83% in 2010.
According to Gartner VP Carolina Milanesi:
We expect Apple to maintain a market share lead throughout our forecast period by commanding more than 50 percent of the market until 2014. This is because Apple delivers a superior and unified user experience across its hardware, software and services. Unless competitors can respond with a similar approach, challenges to Apple’s position will be minimal. Apple had the foresight to create this market and in doing that planned for it as far as component supplies such as memory and screen. This allowed Apple to bring the iPad out at a very competitive price and no compromise in experience among the different models that offer storage and connectivity options.
Worldwide media tablet sales to end users in 2011 are projected to hit 63.6 million units, a 261.4% increase from 2010 sales of 17.6 million units.
Apple iPad – Far Ahead of the Pack
Gartner predicts tablet sales will continue to experience strong growth and reach 326.3 million units in 2015.
Apart from Apple iOS and Google’s Android operating system, Gartner does not expect any other platforms to win over 5% share of the tablet market in 2011.
Lower Forecast for Android
Android tablets are projected to ship 11 million units in 2011, accounting for 17.3% of media tablet sales compared to 14.3% last year.
Gartner has lowered its forecast for Android OS tablets by 28% from last quarter’s projection. The researcher said the reduction would have been higher were it not for the success of lower-end tablets in Asia, and the expectations around the launch of Amazon’s tablet.
Android’s appeal in the tablet market has been constrained by high prices, weak user interface and limited tablet applications.
On Microsoft’s prospects, Gartner expects the software giant’s platform will find its biggest opportunities in the enterprise segment, where IT departments could benefit from smoother integration with existing Microsoft software.
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Here goes my first comment from iPad the sole and absolute monarch of tablets empire!!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
That was one smart move, sweetie-pie!
No, whatever you may have just seen on your monitor we’re not sloshed! 😉
Class is something few Indians have. The rest of the tablets are junk!
Sweetie, no matter what the Android schmucks say, Class is given to only a few Indian Souls!
Which was it 16GB, 32 or 64GB and how much was it in Mera Bharat Mahaan?
It is 32 GB, WiFi + 3G version, white one.. I am just loving it. 🙂
Class is given to Indians at a greater cost always. As I showed you the price comparison the other day, it was 41900 rubaai 🙁
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SearchIndia.com Responds:
We have the 32GB WiFi, blackie. $599 at Best Buy (a retail store chain here).
BTW, Amazon is likely to launch its Tablet on Wednesday.
Don’t worry, there’s no chance in hell they can match the iPad 2.
As for your question, No, we ain’t drunk…just a little high!
Dreaming about Sonam Kapoor!
Oh, yeah, baby, Blame it all on Sonam, one of the few Bollywood actresses with class. 😉
off I-pad2: I was at B&N today and was looking at the Nookbook device and was wondering how it would compare to kindle,what does SI say?
Was thinking about getting one for Diwali
SearchIndia.com Responds:
We’ve played with the B&N Nook a few times at the store. Not a bad deal if all you want to do is read.
A Best Buy store rep (yes, this one seemed sincere unlike the other *****) once told us he had the Nook Color (for several months) and was happy with it.
Biggest difference between Nook & current-generation Kindle is that the Nooks are touch-screen (the Kindle is not) and can do a few more things compared to the Kindle.
Let’s see what Amazon is gonna announce with its new Tablet on Wednesday.
We suspect the Amazon tablet will have Kindle functionality embedded in it.
Ahem.. SI, how would you compare iPad the ruler of earth, which, ahem, only few wise men in the universe like us get, to those aforementioned things? 😉
SearchIndia.com Responds:
If by “aforementioned things” you mean Kindle, Nook, Kobe, the Android devices etc, there’s just no comparison.
iPad 2 is way ahead of the pack, except for the low-resolution camera.
In any case, who uses a Tablet to take photos. For photography, we have the more-than-adequate 5-megapixel camera in iPhone 4.
Steve Jobs has class.
But between Sonam Kapoor & the iPad 2, we’ll take Sonam any day, any hour, any minute, any second, any nano-second. Fuck Steve Jobs. Fuck Apple. 😉
Does the I-pad 2 have an app. for Tamil blue movies? Just curious
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Not currently.
But we’re sure some vice Tamil souls are working on it as we type! 😉
Mabe Trish Krishnanji would be the first to release a “Shower-Cam app”? Now THAT would be a reason to fork over 599$!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Now, now, that’s no way to speak about a good Brahmin gal en route to matrimony. God forbid that she reads your comment. She might organize a special homam to curse you to eternal damnation.
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
Thomas Paine
We were going over Paine the other week in History class and thought I’d read some of his works,yesterday I read part of his “Age of Reason” and enjoyed it a lot.The above quote is from that masterpiece and BTW [Deleted]!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You can’t write such stuff without at least a semblance of proof.
And here we were thinking Bacchus was playing games with us.
And all this while, Bacchus was busy in Ohio!
thanks for the Greek lesson! Here is my “Proof”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire_Club
Franklin attended frequently and was friends with Dashwood for many years
SearchIndia.com Responds:
We’re not talking of Benjamin Franklin but of another person, references to whom we deleted because you offered no proof.
Let’s see whether amazon has the balls to make a tablet in the first place.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
We’ll know by this time tomorrow.
Amazon tablet (if at all there is one) will be dead on arrival. There is a BIG change in the mindset of a tablet buyer post touchpad inventory flush. Everyone is waiting for the next flush out sale. No one wants to look like a sucker buying a toy for $499 when the same could be potentially sold for 99 bucks few weeks down the line. It’s already game over for tablet makers other than apple.
Just read a report that apple is scaling down production. iPad sales boom could continue after all the idiots surrender.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1, We too saw the news about Apple scaling down production of the iPad 2.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-26/apple-cuts-ipad-supply-chain-orders-jpmorgan.html
2. The U.S. is the major market for these gadgets and with the economy in the toilet here and getting worse by the day, it’s not a surprise that Apple is cutting production.
3. The Amazon Tablet’s success or failure will depend on price, state of the economy, quality of the tablet (all but certain the Amazon tablet will debut Wednesday), bundling of Amazon Prime streaming service, Apps etc. Overall, we’re pessimistic that the Amazon tablets are going to fly off the shelves.
“In what must come as a surprise only to the babbling Android fan-boys, a new study from market researcher Gartner forecasts that Apple iPads will continue to lord over the tablet market into 2015.
The number-crunchers at Gartner see Apple commanding a market-share of over 50% until 2014.”
It’s amazing, I am just 27 and I already feel like I am a Floppy Disk among the DVDs (Old man amongst the young). Inspite of working in the IT industry, I am yet to lay my hands on an iPad or iPod or even an iShuffle. Hell, I don’t even have one.
Can SI please educate Apple illiterates like me on the benefits of owning an iPad? Does an average job-goer like me really benefit using an iPad? What exactly do I gain by buying an iPad? Just curious to know…..
I can easily afford to buy an iPad or iPod, but I just wanna know what I gain by using one. Coz I don’t wanna join the herd and just buy one for the saking of owning one 🙁
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. You write: It’s amazing, I am just 27 and I already feel like I am a Floppy Disk among the DVDs (Old man amongst the young).
Well, then we must feel like the ENIAC.
2. You write: Can SI please educate Apple illiterates like me on the benefits of owning an iPad?
iPad 2 is a versatile entertainment & all purpose device.
You can read books/magazines either on browser or via dedicated Apps, watch movies, listen to music, play games, blog, watch YouTube videos, watch sports events like cricket, make Skype video calls to your Rambha, Urvashi and Maneka etc. There are over 100,000 apps from dictionary to medical records to National Geographic (Paid App) to Times of India to BBC to watching TV shows to health reference guides
There are countless Apps in the Productivity, Business and Sports categories. Mobile businesses can use it as a credit card machine and if you’re a pilot you can use it to store flight manuals etc. Via the iPad, you can even remotely connect to the PC and access your files.
Ardent Apple fanboys are also known to use it as ersatz girlfriends.
In short, you can do almost everything that you can do on a desktop in a smaller form-factor and on the go (mobile).
It’s not like sex with [Insert Your favorite Tamil Actress Here] but comes pretty close! 😉
“Inspite of working in the IT industry, I am yet to lay my hands on an iPad or iPod or even an iShuffle”
You’re way ahead. One of my colleagues asked me “Is it Tablet or iPad?”.
“Does an average job-goer like me really benefit using an iPad?”
I use it to study technical articles, find sample code-snippets, while replying business mails (it has options to include exchange / gmail apps / yahoo / others). I also pushed all the technical e-Books I had in hand into it. Saves you from carrying heavy technical books that can compete pillows. Apart from technical ones, if you’re a vivid reader, this is going to be exciting. I even copied e-books of Ponniyin Selvan (Tamil) and it looks great.
I used it to take notes during meeting, and tried to draw some stupid architecture diagrams. Have not yet tried FaceTime. But Skype is good. Productivity apps such as EverNote help you a lot. Transferred money and Booked travel tickets through it. User experience is unparalleled (having tried – Samsung Galaxy tab and Acer Android tablet)
Heck, there is even an app available to Remote-desktop into a machine, if you want to code / do other stuff 🙂
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/remote-desktop-lite-rdp/id288362576?mt=8
Other than remote-login apps, there are even options to connect to VPN (apart from default configurations under settings). Below is few of the SSL VPN clients! (Forti SSL and Cisco)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fortimobile-ssl-vpn/id345361028?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cisco-anyconnect/id392790924?mt=8
Simply put, Time does not exist in the space and with the people having an iPad!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
EverNote (mentioned above) is a great App. We’ve used the free version for over 3 years now.
People with taste cannot avoid products of Apple. It’s like heroin (No exaggeration). I suggest fellow readers to watch this video where Jobs (Henry Ford+Einstein of our lifetime) explains two dumbos on what makes iPad so special.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh2JTGjbGIA
SearchIndia.com Responds:
WTF!
Walter Mossberg (the guy in your video) is a dumbo?
Are you High on local hooch? No need to respond because that’s a rhetorical question.
We’ve been reading Walt’s columns and reviews in the Wall Street Journal for several years and he’s VERY GOOD.
You might want to read his reviews before you slander him as a Dumbo.
Folks, Walt is one of the most respected IT journalists in the world and there’s nothing dumb in his questions.
Even Steve Jobs respects Walt Mossberg greatly.
Evidence of Steve’s respect for Walt: Read second para in below link.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/08/25/how-apple-works-inside-the-worlds-biggest-startup/
Even a great reviewer is a dumbhead in front of a Creator like Jobs when such questions are posed.
iPhone 5 and/or iPhone nano on Oct 4 🙂
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. Our feeling is iPhone 5 or whatever the successor to the iPhone 4 is called will be more like iPhone 3GS. This means it’s hard to find compelling features that make you want to upgrade.
We got the iPhone 3G, but skipped the 3GS, upgraded to iPhone 4, and unless the Oct. 4 upgrade adds Sex, we’ll skip it and look at the following version in 2012 or 2013.
We expect a lot of people will do likewise.
There’s little you can’t do with the iPhone 4 – Talk, hundreds of thousands of apps, decent 5-megapixel camera (so good that we’ve stopped using our Canon S80, Nikon DSLR etc), Skype video, built-in iPod etc. We expect the processor will be beefed up in the coming upgrade. But is that good enough for an upgrade? We don’t think so.
One thing we won’t do going forward is update the software because Apple has a strong incentive to make it run slower on the iPhone 4. It’s in their interest to do so – Sell more units of the new iPhone.
2. Nothing dumb in Walt’s question because much ado has been made about the iPad’s inability to run Flash.
I think iPhone 5 will be significantly better. If it was just a better processor and camera inside the same old shell, it would have been released in WWDC 2011 itself. I expect a thinner phone with better battery,reception,camera and probably 4g.
I think Apple will come out with iPhone Nano sooner or later to grab the remaining pie in the mobile phone industry. It did the same when it released iPod nano and shuffle to achieve monopoly in mp3 player industry. Indian cheapos would love a $200 apple phone with touch display.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: Indian cheapos would love a $200 apple phone with touch display.
Yes, but Apple seems to be paying less attention to the iPod touch lately. Most of the attention is on the iPad or the new iPhone.
But we can’t imagine Indians ever paying 99-cents for a song/track on iTunes like we do here. At the end of the day, iPod, iPhone and iPad all feed at the iTunes trough.
Indians will buy if iTunes sells 99 songs for a cent ;). Indians will not pay for any product which they cannot touch and feel 😉
SearchIndia.com Responds:
True. 🙂
“You can read books/magazines either on browser or via dedicated Apps, watch movies, listen to music, play games, blog, watch YouTube videos, watch sports events like cricket, make Skype video calls to your Rambha, Urvashi and Maneka etc. There are over 100,000 apps from dictionary to medical records to National Geographic (Paid App) to Times of India to BBC to watching TV shows to health reference guides”
Thanks SI, gives me enough reason to be tempted to buy one. Although, I find the price tag of rupees 27600 a bit above my budget (An average desktop PC with high configuration in Chennai costs around 27k). Perhaps, I should buy an iPod instead of an iPad to enter into the apple family.
Thanks for the information again, I am saving money to buy an iPad soon 🙂
SearchIndia.com Responds:
http://www.apple.co.in/store/mainproducts/ipad/ipad.html
Apple devices cannot be measured by number of things they do or configuration compared to peers. It’s the overall experience which is way higher than the sum of its parts.
Certain things are inexplicable. They have to be experienced.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Well said.
Having used three Apple products iPod, iPhone & iPad extensively and the Mac on a few occasions we agree.
Steve Jobs may be an Asshole but he’s a Classy Asshole. 😉