Android 4.0 ‘still not strong enough’ to compete with iPad, vendors fear

I think this article badly formulated. It’s not like Androd is behind iOS in any way on tablets. Android is technically superior to iOS is pretty much every way. The problem is however that users don’t care much about this superiority. Users doesn’t care about OS underpinnings, they care about apps and hardware quality. With a competitive price and a huge app selection iPad is an obvious choice for a consumer and I don’t know what it would take for other OEMs to dethrone it. The problem is that Apple priced iPad really competitively.

I truly hate ready drivel like this. Seriously now. “vendors reportedly believe Google’s new OS lacks the innovation needed to bolster Android tablet sales”. “Vendors”. That’s like watching Fox News and hearing people report that “some say” Barack Obama is a Muslim. “Some people think” evolution isn’t real. “Some might argue” the US never landed on the moon. 

Regardless, Google’s OS is never at a loss for innovation. Are they at a loss for apps? Sure. Do vendors need to rethink their price structures? Absolutely. Cloud storage. Universal messaging. Streaming music player. Turn by turn directions. Voice command. All was there in previous versions. Now they bring even more “innovation” to the table with ICS. Innovation is not the problem that “vendors” are facing.

If Windows 8 on ARM has the wide peripheral support and ease of installation/IT support/software install that Windows users are accustomed to, expect it to win. 

Google should have made a nexus tablet to silence these analyst. 

Perhaps we shouldn’t worry about who is winning the war for a transitional product that is not quite good enough to be a true computing unit, and too big to enter the phone market.  When the Tablets reach a non-retarded-pc status of performance then we can discuss “winners” and “losers.”  Until then, Tablets won’t make a company sink or swim, so there are no real winners or losers, everyone can play.

I just rather buy an Apple.  I hate the other tablet makers. Just cuz they are copy cats.

All I know, is that once Siri comes to the iPad 2, it’s all over.
So, you’ve about a month. Maybe less.

The tablet market and the phone market have almost nothing in common.

Tablets are not subsidized by carriers, so the consumer carries the entire purchase price. Millions of people elect to spend discretionary income on the iPad2 every month. They are not choosing the Android product in any meaningful numbers.

It’s also funny to see anyone touting Android “technological superiority.” Android will get quad cores first no doubt because they NEED them to offset their crummy hardware optimization, which is mostly reflected in their laggy graphical response and suckish battery performance to date.

There is nothing technologically superior about needing more virtual horsepower to keep up with purpose built devices that don’t require the hardware overhead in the first place.

Curiously, WP7.5 is a comparative race car on lighter spec hardware too.

Yup.  Makes sense.  Wife asked to use the Samsung Tab 10.1 versus iPad but the Tab’s battery somehow drained from 60% to zero overnight.  She went back to the iPad.  Old reliable.

No custom roms, just stock mind you.  Android is not ready to compete.  And anyone that says to load a custom rom just doesn’t get it.  Compete means to compete without manipulation.  I feel like Google is using as a lab rats sometimes.

Oh yeah, Apple doesnt have a thing to worry about, that is for sure.
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