Android smartphone users prefer iPads

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor

Hey you Android smartphone users? What’s your tablet?

Tell us on our Facebook poll: Android users: Which tablet do you own?

Personally, I’m an Android user, (starting with a beta G-1), yet I bought myself an iPad not long after they first came out (that’s my mobile stack in the photo). So I was not surprised by today’s article by Zach Epstein, Android users buy the iPad over Google-powered tablets on BGR.

See the chart below, but Apple’s early lead just keeps widening. “Canaccord sees Apple selling 35.8 million iPads this year and 55.1 million units in 2012, well ahead of its closest competitor Samsung, which is expected to sell 7.5 million tablets this year and 12 million tablets in 2012.”

 

This theme continues in Rob D. Young’s article, comScore: iPad Obliterating Android Tablets. “A new comScore report, known as “Device Essentials,” is taking a look at numerous elements of non-computer traffic – including device, OS, carrier, and mode of access for tablets, smartphones, and other Internet-enabled devices. Initial data shows iPad obliterating Android in the tablet market, with Android and iOS competing closely in the smartphone market.” Seems that there is often a country bias. (Along the lines of the “pizza wars” or “soda wars.”)

Also in support of these growing numbers, IDC reports that tablet shipments fell 28% in Q1 after the strong 2010 holiday season, but IDC still revised their 2011 projection upward by 3 millions units to a total of 53.4 million units worldwide.

If you have an Android – tell us about your tablet!

Tags: Android, iPad