Just in time for Xmas, Apple is about to launch their latest iPad. It better be great because iPad sales are falling. While the Apple’s pad has 32 percent of the market, last year it held 40 percent. Samsung tablets, which run Android, have gained ground this year with 22 percent of the market, up from 17.5 percent, according to IDC.
The competition from Microsoft is slowly snaking up, After an aggressive but failed introduction of the Surface as the machine that did everything but function as a dildo, MS has retasked the Surface as a “2 in 1″*_ .. a single machine that can replace both a table and a notebook. As a surface use who owns an iPad .. I would second that description. The Surface is awesome, Redmond housed a marketing guru Mr. Blamer might still be the Microsoft’s CEO. Sadly for Apple, none of the rumors about the new iPad suggest this level of innovation.
The Apple event also arrives as Google is taking more control of Android, the most widely-used operating system in the world for smartphones and tablets, with 80 percent market share, according to IDC. By comparison, Apple’s iOS, which powers iPhones and iPads, has around 17 percent of the market.
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