A new study by market researcher Strategy Analytics estimates that the Apple iPad accounted for 80% of tablet shipments (i.e. 6 million units) in North America during the second quarter of 2011. The Boston researcher reckons that despite Apple’s tight grip on the American tablet market, it’s not impossible for Amazon and other tablet vendors […]
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 […]
Research in Motion, maker of the Blackberry phones and the PlayBook tablet, disclosed its PlayBook shipments today for its fiscal second quarter (ended August 27, 2011). And they are HIDEOUSLY UGLY. RIM said it’d shipped 200,000 Blackberry Playbook tablets into the channel. Yes, a piffling 200,000 PlayBooks were shipped into the channel in the entire […]
Sony told the world today its keen desire to ritually disembowel itself by pricing its new S tablet (based on Android) at $499 (16GB version), same as the market leader Apple iPad. The 32GB version of the S tablet will cost $599. Sony said the 9.4-inch S tablet would be available in stores next month […]
After enduring the earthquake and Irene, yours ‘battered’ truly really needed a good laugh. Thank God for those bozos at market researcher Forrester. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha. ROFL 😉 Listen, guys, Forrester is predicting that it sees Amazon ‘easily selling 3 million to 5 million units in Q4 alone.’ Sure, Forrester adds the […]
Whoa, get ye ready folks. Sony’s tablet challenger to Apple’s iPad is expected to hit the market next month, well in time to tap into the lucrative holiday shopping season in North America if all goes well. But all’s not likely to go well for the Sony S1 tablet if the experience of the other […]