Android users buy the iPad over Google-powered tablets

By on Jul 11, 2011 at 10:21 AM
Tablets July 11, 2011

Apple’s market-leading iOS tablet isn’t just the slate of choice for iPhone users according to a recent report. According to checks performed by Canaccord Genuity analysts T. Michael Walkley, Charles John and Matthew D. Ramsay, Android smartphone users are purchasing the iPad over Android alternatives like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Motorola XOOM. Canaccord notes that Samsung, Asus and Amazon likely pose the biggest threat to Apple’s strong global tablet position, but early iPad adoption among Android users could pose a problem for these competitors. The firm speculates that the high price points for tablet apps will likely lock these users into Apple’s iOS ecosystem, making it less likely that they will switch to an Android-based tablet in the near future. ”Our smartphone and handset checks indicate iPads are selling better to Android smartphone users than the current Android tablets,” Canaccord’s report states. “As a result, we argue consumers purchasing a tablet are more likely to remain in that ecosystem given higher price points for tablet applications. With our checks indicating Android smartphone consumers are choosing the iPad versus Android tablets, we believe this is a powerful trend for Apple’s growing iOS base. Therefore, we anticipate Apple should maintain dominant share of the tablet market in C2011 and C2012.” Canaccord also notes that Microsoft’s Windows 8 tablets could do well when they become available next year, though the firm notes that Microsoft’s success could come mainly from the enterprise market. While Walkley and his team expect Apple’s share of the tablet market to slide significantly over the next two years — from an estimated 82% in 2010 to 56% in 2011 and 51% in 2012 — Canaccord sees Apple selling 35.8 million iPads this year and 55.1 million units in 2012, well ahead of its closest competitor Samsung, which is expected to sell 7.5 million tablets this year and 12 million tablets in 2012. Canaccord’s tablet unit and market share estimates follow below.

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  • Anonymous

    Android phone owner and also have a Nook Color (running CM7) as well as an iPad.  I much prefer the size/feel of the Nook (still think Apple’s missing a huge opportunity with a tweener iPad Mini or iPod XL device) but prefer the iPad for day-to-day use of the two tablets.  If Amazon’s tablets are compelling there’s a chance I may sell the Nook and get one of those.

    Ironically though as much as I like the iPad it still doesn’t really make me want an iPhone (at least in its current flavor.)  There’s a lot of little things I like about Android in the phone space that I just couldn’t give up right now.

  • Anonymous

    Im still waiting for the Galaxy Tab II TO come out. Same price as the ipad. Why would i want to buy a ipad when a third one is on its way out? N Pretty soon a fourth. I usually wait a year or two before buying any portable hard ware before wasting my money. I never rush out n buy something new just because everyone wants one. Its always best to wait.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_N4NYE4UM3Z4KCLKWRZXUJDYSGY Henry Bailey

    I paid $32.67 for a XBOX 360 and my mom got a 17 inch Toshiba laptop for $94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again pay expensive retail prices at stores. I even sold a 46 inch HDTV to my boss for $650 and it only cost me $52.78 to get. Here is the website we using to get all this stuff, LiveCent.com

  • Anonymous

    No surprise here.  People know I’m an outspoken about my dislike of Apple products and I love my DROID, but the simple fact remains that right now at least, Apple’s product is better.

    That will change.

  • zps

    I would have bought a Samsung Android tablet if those dumbasses had either (i) increased the internal storage or (ii) offered an SD or microSD slot.  32GB is a joke.  an SD slot gets you 128GB.  get a clue, Samsung, and differentiate your product based on storage.

  • Chris

    When my professor told me before “Statistics is the most misused Math of all time.”, he wasn’t lying…

    What I want to know is:
    1. How many were polled when this “research” was done?
    2. How many were actually “Android” users – not just people who have used Android and toss it away?
        The latter will change the research point of view because then if the so called Android users only used an Android device once then they weren’t really Android users to begin with.
    3. How many came from iPhone to Android then back to iOS? 
    4. a lot more questions that I couldn’t possibly type here.

    You could turn any type of number into what you want to believe in.

    Like my prof always say “Numerology is different from Math.”

  • http://www.seodiscovery.org Kurt Layne

    ipad is just the best… ^_^

  • http://twitter.com/theopizza Theo Pizza

    This isn’t a surprise.  There are too many trash Android tablets being pushed.  If it’s not at least running Honeycomb, they’re shit.

  • Anonymous

    Bull Shiite I have an I-phone and a Xoom. So F’in what!!!!!!

  • Chargerman165

    I had the iPad 1 and the iPhone and didn’t like either. I now have the HTC Thunderbolt and the Motorola Xoom and love them both and my Xoom is productive for me and way more so than the iPad. I thought the iPad and iPhone was going to be the end all and from all the comments not laggy. That was not the case and both lagged. If this makes me a hater then so be it. However I guess the reason most people like the Apple products is because they are simple to operate and maybe they like simple.

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