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So far what is the biggest threat to the iPad’s largely unchallenged supremacy in the tablet market? The answer has certainly got to be Amazon's Kindle Fire, which sports a very enticing $200 price tag. Even though the Kindle Fire is probably the only non-iPad tablet to have generated iPad-like buzz, it's not the only affordable tablet on the market. The ranks of sub-$300 tablets are constantly swelling. And if NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is right, soon there will be a number of Tegra 3 tablets in this price range.
But exactly how soon, you ask? Well, in a couple of quarters according to Huang. He made this claim while talking to media persons in New York on Friday. Apparently, he was in a mood to flaunt his predictive faculties. Huang foresees a "shocking" rate of improvement in mobile chips and believes a five-fold annual increase in the power and efficiency of mobile chips is in the realm of possibility.
According to the NVIDIA honcho, the biggest challenge facing Android tablet vendors in the U.S. is the fact that they have to sell their devices through retailers - unlike Apple which has its own stores. "Apple stores have an advantage over anything sold through Best Buy," he said. "Everything sold through Best Buy has to pay Best Buy a margin."
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furiousdc
November 21, 2011 at 10:10am
too many vendors putting out too many tablets. No one knows if what they're getting without extensive research. Same reason so many people end up eating at McDonalds.
That's not a knock at Apple saying Apple is as bad for you as McDonalds just saying with Apple you know exactly what your getting. A good solid tablet that's the benchmark for all others.
ABouman
November 21, 2011 at 12:04pm
We try - when we crank up the captcha then legit commenters have issues trying to post (even with where it's set now, we receive A LOT of complaints about the captcha). When we relax the captcha, we're just over run with spam. I'm working with our web team to try to institute a spam report system, but since they're responsible for multiple websites, they've got a pretty sizeable to-do list. Which means in the meantime, it's just me manually deleting spam as quick as I can.
Caboose
November 22, 2011 at 9:10am
Why not adopt a commenting system similar to that of Gizmodo (and their sites), where you have to be an approved commenter before your posts show up or something? Or "hire" some of us on a volunteer basis to help moderate the comments, banning/deleting accounts that are spamming, etc.
Most forums have a team of volunteers that moderate for the staff. Heck, lock down account registrations in the meantime.
Wingzero_x
November 20, 2011 at 2:04am
Well thats fine and dandy, but what he is forgetting is asking why the iPad is so successful at a premium price. Lets face a solid facts here;
First tablets are no way shape or form "Max PC" hardware! Tablets are an extention of all those OEM PCs from Dell, Acer, Gateways.... that are sold in mass at all those big box retailers.
These devices don't center around the hardware, but by the user experience, and that comes down to the software. If an Android device is going to dethrone the iPad it's not going to be because of the hardware. This fact is the reason why you can't count Windows 8 out.
Holly Golightly
November 19, 2011 at 11:21pm
Wow, this is something I am really looking forward to. Power at a reasonable price. I hate Best Buy... But it is really the only way to get your product out there. Heck, they even sell iPads at Best Buy. You want a successful product? Reach out the the consumer. Things like price, performance and specs are very important, and in that order to many people.
