iPad Loses Ground to Android Tablets? I Don’t Think So - szaboswely1945

Android fans are grinning beamy today complete news that Android's global tablet share jumped to 39 percent in 2022, cutting into Apple's iPad market parcel lead. Should Apple start biting its nails? Hardly!

It's harmonious that Android lozenge makers shipped 10.5 one thousand thousand units in the parting three months of 2022, accordant to a study aside Strategy Analytics. But for Malus pumila to worry about Android pad dominance anytime soon would be absurd.

Let's peel back the headline and take a closer look.

Strategy Analytics' study saved that global Android tablet shipments were dispensed across individual manufacturers such as Amazon, Samsung, and Asus. By comparison, Orchard apple tree sold-out 43.1 million iPads in 2022, twice as many an as Android did, according to Malus pumila's business Numbers. Not too shabby.

But there's a solid difference between shipments, which means units sold-out to retailers, and gross revenue, as in how many people actually bought the tablet. Strategy Analytics estimates that 66.9 trillion tablets were shipped in 2022, of which 23.1 million units were Android tablets, while Apple actually sold 43 million.

So patc Apple sells all of its tablets, many an Android tablets could cost sitting on shelves waiting for buyers, because the canvass seems to compare the 15.4 million iPads actually sold-out in the one-fourth ending in Dec to the estimated 10.5 million Android tablets shipped to retailers during that period.

The Sojourner Truth is that Apple ISN't apprehensive.

"Apple shrugged sour the much-hyped threat from ingress-level Android models this quarter," explained Peter Tycoo, theatre director of Strategy Analytics. Orchard apple tree doesn't subscribe to the possibility that Kindle Flack is a direct threat to the iPad, either.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said during the company's earnings call this workweek that he looked at the data for the United States after the Kindle Fire plunge and didn't mark an obvious increment or lessen in iPad sales: "Looking at our data, in that location was no obvious modify in the data."

Neil Mawston, executive director of Strategy Analytics, suggested that Malus pumila perhaps ought to take the Android threat seriously. He said that if Humanoid can overcome nagging concerns about fragmentation of its OS and user interface, and about its app store ecosystem, Android will glucinium a force to be reckoned with. Those are a lot of hurdle race to clear, however.

Android's open-source nature could to work against it in the pill market. Though the Kindle Fire, e.g., runs connected Android, that fact is far from self-evident when you take the almost unidentifiable skinning of the drug user interface and at the replacement of the official Android Market with Amazon's own app store and suite of content services.

If the Provok Fire is so eroding lozenge sales, it seems to glucinium pickings them forth from other Android manufacturers, which have still to sell a tablet as laden with customized content, services, and apps as the Fire at its low terms.

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