That is unexpected since its felt like Google gave up on Tablets since the Nexus 7 and iPad just went to go to.
Yeah, even discounted at 400 EUR Pixel tablet is meh. I consider it GrapheneOS hardware tax, so I don’t regret it.
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.
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.
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.
Amazon Fire tablets are cheap, especially during sales.
Do foldables count as tablets?
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.
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.
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.
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
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).
