Comments on: Should we wait for Windows?

By: Dave Heywood

Dave Heywood — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:43:00 +0000

i’ll wait for Apple to do a dual boot option, then bite their hand off – need Win for work, but love simplicity and usability of IOS for getting things done and entertainment…

By: Jon Butler

Jon Butler — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:18:00 +0000

Thanks for including those stats — when I hear someone say “the inability of Android to gain any serious traction” it makes me wonder if it’s a local concern, because here in the States the rise of Android tablets is happening quite quickly.

With that said, the iPad has an enormous way to go before serious adoption in enterprises, mainly because of incredibly poor integration and security features. The support for Exchange ActiveSync alone is buggy enough to make most support folks despise it with a passion (as does my employer, a Fortune 75 company with 100k employees) and the poor security/encryption support makes it an almost certain no-no for the time being for many American companies.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:50:00 +0000

The tablet market seems to be going the same way as it did with phones. Initial slow adoption for a year, then a crazy acceleration curve. Android accounted for 39% of tablets vs 58% for iPad last quarter. Most of that 39% is shared between Samsung and Amazon it seems.

http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Android-Gains-Tablet-Market-Share/story.xhtml?story_id=13200CZCKKDO&full_skip=1

By: Lauhakari [mikko]

Lauhakari [mikko] — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:50:00 +0000

Why isn’t anyone questioning the market for tablets, especially in enterprise, with Ultrabooks now popping up from every manufacturer. Do Tabs & Pads really have a future with these so called Ultrabooks packing so much more power with the same kind of form factor.

Sure a.t.m. a Tab is smoother in some ways, but when the classic flip tablet makes a return, like Lenovo’s Idepad Yoga, won’t enterprise users prefer this kind of machine over an ordinary pad any day? I would!