Amazon Fire tablets are like $100, marketed toward kids and come with a one year subscription to their Amazon Kids service which give access a bunch of games, apps and videos. I would guess that’s the majority of Android tablet sold.
I not long ago got off an international flight. The seatback screen rebooted randomly during said flight. According to the text displayed during the reboot sequence It was running android. Extrapolating that out to however many planes have a seatback entertainment system, that’s a lot of in-use android tablets.
Damn Google forever for not continuing tablets. I love my Nexus 7 and I still rock that little guy. Relatively easy to repair, great size, just all around great.
I think the gap was just too damn large. I had both a nexus tablet and an iPad at the same time and even as a (then) android user it was clear the iPad was just better in every conceivable way.
I absolutely want there to be market competition, Apple having a stranglehold on anything is bad for everyone, but I get why they would just give up.
I owned (sold it back to bestbuy) the pixel tablet. It didn’t do half the stuff it was supposed to be able to do (mostly to do with smart home integration, and multi user integration), and I got tired of trying to make it work for my family so I sold it back to bestbuy for store credit.
Nah. They literally billed the tablets to have features/functionality that didn’t work or wasn’t implemented not just at launch but a full year after the fact. I love tablets. Had both versions of the nexus 7.
But they keep trying to make tablets be other things instead of just making a tablet that’s useful for tablet things.
I loved reading on my nexus 7. The pixel tablet is a bit big for that. I like using it to watch movies or even just videos. Its pretty okay for that.
But all the effort went into smart features that would have been useful if they worked. But they didn’t work and google doesn’t seem to have even made strides to make them work. Finger print reader? Only useable with the primary account holder (so if you share this tablet the person or people you share it with can’t use the finger print reader to unlock their profile). Smart home features that were half broken because it doesn’t know whether it wants to use Gemini or google assistant. Smart home hub features that their own smart home hub from a previous generation far outpaces.
Google can’t just make a tablet and let it be a tablet and they aren’t trying to make a tablet that has feature parity with what IOS provides. I have never personally owned an iOS device but the ones I have used have apps that aren’t just scaled up phone apps.
That is unexpected since its felt like Google gave up on Tablets since the Nexus 7 and iPad just went to go to.
Amazon Fire tablets are like $100, marketed toward kids and come with a one year subscription to their Amazon Kids service which give access a bunch of games, apps and videos. I would guess that’s the majority of Android tablet sold.
I not long ago got off an international flight. The seatback screen rebooted randomly during said flight. According to the text displayed during the reboot sequence It was running android. Extrapolating that out to however many planes have a seatback entertainment system, that’s a lot of in-use android tablets.
And a ton of taxis also seem to have jumped on seatback systems.
Ahh then that would definitely explain it, since Apple would appear to be dominating on the consumer end.
Depends on the market you are in. In the US? Yes. In the EU? Very dependant on the region. And in south(east) asia? Android wins by a large margin.
Amazon Fire tablets are cheap, especially during sales.
Do foldables count as tablets?
Damn Google forever for not continuing tablets. I love my Nexus 7 and I still rock that little guy. Relatively easy to repair, great size, just all around great.
Agreed it was a fantastic tablet.
Nexus 7 form factor is so good. I still don’t understand why Google just abandoned any further attempts of resurrecting it.
I think the gap was just too damn large. I had both a nexus tablet and an iPad at the same time and even as a (then) android user it was clear the iPad was just better in every conceivable way.
I absolutely want there to be market competition, Apple having a stranglehold on anything is bad for everyone, but I get why they would just give up.
I still have mine too. I’ve used it a few times when I’ve lost my phone, but it’s more or less retired rn.
What makes you say they gave up on tablets?
I owned (sold it back to bestbuy) the pixel tablet. It didn’t do half the stuff it was supposed to be able to do (mostly to do with smart home integration, and multi user integration), and I got tired of trying to make it work for my family so I sold it back to bestbuy for store credit.
Okay so “Google gave up on tablets” = I don’t like Google tablets?
Nah. They literally billed the tablets to have features/functionality that didn’t work or wasn’t implemented not just at launch but a full year after the fact. I love tablets. Had both versions of the nexus 7.
But they keep trying to make tablets be other things instead of just making a tablet that’s useful for tablet things.
I loved reading on my nexus 7. The pixel tablet is a bit big for that. I like using it to watch movies or even just videos. Its pretty okay for that.
But all the effort went into smart features that would have been useful if they worked. But they didn’t work and google doesn’t seem to have even made strides to make them work. Finger print reader? Only useable with the primary account holder (so if you share this tablet the person or people you share it with can’t use the finger print reader to unlock their profile). Smart home features that were half broken because it doesn’t know whether it wants to use Gemini or google assistant. Smart home hub features that their own smart home hub from a previous generation far outpaces.
Google can’t just make a tablet and let it be a tablet and they aren’t trying to make a tablet that has feature parity with what IOS provides. I have never personally owned an iOS device but the ones I have used have apps that aren’t just scaled up phone apps.