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.
0.01% for Windows tablets is pretty weird. I’m sure Surfaces are more popular than that. Maybe they are counting those as laptops, which kind of makes these statistics useless.
So they sold 21 android tablets. Wow.
I haven’t considered a tablet in ages and I don’t know a single person that owns one.
Given how thin laptops have gotten, the tradeoff of being small for using a mobile os isn’t worth it anymore.
I do appreciate that they put BlackBerry in the stats.
Sent from my BlackBerry Playbook
I use mine as an ebook reader and to watch netflix et al. especially when I’m traveling. It was only 200€ for a very good 10" display, good sound and decent speed. Pretty good value for money and a lot more comfortable for me than a laptop for these use cases. It’s not the most important device I own but it has its uses.
They’re still super common in the enterprise space. If you leave your house, you’ve probably interacted with an android tablet based payment kiosk super recently. Several restaurants near me have devices they use for digital signage at every table that are really just android tablets. There’s this great sushi place near me that has like 4 different types for signage/payment/ordering and they don’t even put them in weird cases to hide that it’s a tablet. Most restaurants using door dash/GrubHub/ubereats will likely have an android tablet for it, maybe even a separate one for each. Lots of other uses in spaces where a basic computing device is needed but the expense of an iPad or standard computer doesn’t make sense.
I use mine as a reader for my ebook/comic collection and for pulling up recipes when I cook. Buying a whole ass laptop for that would be overkill and my phone screen is too small. Haven’t bought a new tablet in a long time though.
It’s weird how everyone knows what an iPad is but they are still a very very small part of the iOS market. I manage a large global app and it hovers around 1-2% of our iOS user base.
Yeah, tablet hype died ages ago, but I think it is handy to have at least one (not the best or more expensive model for sure) at home because it can be handy from time to time.
I had an Internet outage at my gf’s place and I could download a lot of shit from my Plex Server to the iPad, something that would have been more annoying to do in the TV or the Mac (or even the phone as I pretty much never use it to watch media).
Also it is quite good as a comic/manga reader (and decent as a book reader).
That is how I see it, I know a lot of people might use it in a more productive way, but for me it is just the backup device that is handy to have (and use in travels too).
At school, they are wildly common. As you can imagine. Digitizing all your work can make searching for it easier. I still can’t let go of old pen and paper for that to happen though
Om sure they are at some schools. However, my kids have had macbooks or Chromebooks for the entire time except kindergarten where they were given iPads.
I’m more talking about colleges and university level. Something in the maths and sciences
And yet snotty iOS devs won’t bring their apps to Android. Looking at you Procreate and Adobe Fresco.
Don’t blame the devs. If you’re an iOS dev you’re just an iOS dev, period. It’s the most important platform and it’s very quirky. It is not a simple matter to republish on Android, especially when it means doubling the complexity of the code you manage to increase your user base by 20%, which is realistic in many cases. App developers just see an enormous amount more engagement from iOS. Yes there are a lot of Android phones but many of them are dirt cheap and may never even see a single app install because it’s just a phone to its owner.
You should get out of the US more
I manage a large and global app. We are everywhere. And since you bring it up, the US is far and away our largest market. Over half the business all on its own. India has over a billion people and is like 95% Android but good luck making a dime there. Business stats don’t always mirror demographic stats. Nice try at an insult, though.
Android users are less likely to pay for apps.
Which Android tablet even has the equivalent to an Apple Pencil? That’s what drawing apps like Procreate are designed for from the ground up.
Where’d you get that info?
Wacom EMR is used in the mid+ Samsung tablet line which is superior to the Apple Pencil and many other brands like Lenovo and even Google’s Pixel tablet use variations of USI styli, granted they aren’t that great for art and are more for note taking.
Once again Apple is really good at marketing because the Apple Pencil isn’t really as good as its popularity would make it seem. It still struggles with line wobble with some iPads not having the issue and others having very noticeable line wobble.
Common knowledge, my friend.
Yeah I don’t think that counts…
Okay ;)
If you know, you know. When you don’t know, it shows.
It sure does.
