Strange but true, too much bla bla bla and nothing concrete has surfaced that can rival the iPad, a tablet that can match the easy to use, power and price of the iPad, a Windows, Linux or Android Tablet that change the game completely, but bringing something that only match the iPad usefulness or hardware specifications is not enough to capture marketshare away from the iPad and in the end marketshare is the less important thing for Apple while it keeps selling like hotcakes.
Microsoft is taking too much time to make Windows 7 usable in any tablet and hardware makers are expecting for the next mobile processor from Intel, while Apple is hoping to increase its iPad production from 2 millions to 3, in the other side is Android with too many flavours of the same OS available for manufacturers to include in their tablets, but none of them is ready for primetime, maybe expecting for the next holiday season, but holiday season could be the time customers are waiting to buy the iPad and make the situation a little difficult for Android-based tablets that in order to have access to the Android Market needs a 3G connection, something tha increase the price a lot more and the monthly bill will make it pleasurable for most people.
Until now, I haven’t seen any real rival to the iPad, it’s not harware, software or a market place with thousands of applications, it’s availability of those products right now. This too much talk and nothing to show or usable enough to make people pay for it and Google is guilty in part because is not pushing Android as tablet OS, because Android is not meant for tablet, Google tablet OS chrome and not all users know that, so maybe putting Android into those devices is a smart move and then replace it with Chrome when it’s ready, but in the mean time, Android fan will have a non-tablet OS into forced to act like a tablet OS. Good Lord.
While fandroids may justify the uncompetive prices for some Android-based tablets in the end the availability and price will determine which one is or will be the most acclaimed by customers and the iPad is only getting better.
