No question about it: the Amazon Kindle Fire is the one non-iPad tablet that is gaining considerable traction in the tablet market against the Apple iPad.
The narrative on the iPad tablet mirrors that of the I-Phone.
Following the March 11 Earthquake in Japan, Apple was not only forced to both delay the release of the iPad tablet in the country, but was also hit with potential supply shortages.
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Samsung, which competes with Apple in the market for smartphones and tablets, supplies Apple with processors and memory-chips used in its mobile devices, as well as the displays used in the iPad tablet.
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The iPad Mini does none of this, it just takes all of the existing iPad tablet UIs and shrinks them down with the result of smaller touch targets and smaller text to read instead of adjusting the content shown.
Not long after the introduction of the first generation of iPad tablet, the HyperDrive from HyperShopoffering up to 750 GB of external storage through the Apple ipad proprietary external interface became available.
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Chip vendors have indicated that the white-label tablet market could grow to be 50% of the non-iPad tablet market, writes BMO.
Still, Rubin conceded, it was a tally far behind that of the 30 million cumulative units of the iPad, which broke open the modern-day tablet category, extended its lead with the iPad 2, and will likely see another revision this coming spring.
Going back to my original theory, I predict the iPad Mini will jumpstart many more enterprise tablet deployments than the iPad has to date.
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He also says that Apple (AAPL) has set the stage for mainstream adoption of Flash in SSD applications, a reference to the lack of a hard drive in both the iPad tablet and the new versions of the MacBook Air notebooks.
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Although the iPad dominates tablet sales now, research firm IHS iSuppli estimates that by 2013, the iPad's market share will decline to less than 50% of the overall market.
At the same time, Samsung has also asked the court to delete an injunction on its Galaxy Tab 10.1, after the jury in the recent court case found it did not infringe Apple's design patent for the iPad tablet.
And when the App syncs with the Blu-ray Disc through a connected player, users can "sling" select content from the Sony Tablet or iPad to the television screen to watch it in full HD, for a greater viewing experience.
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Thirty-five percent of respondents said they found the iPad the most visually appealing tablet and 48% said they would buy the iPad if cost were no issue.
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For me, the big question is what market the iPad mini will compete in: tablet or iPad.
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Apple exceeded the guidance for its margins in the fourth quarter, a nice add-on to the sales of its slim touch-screen tablet the iPad, which increased by 3 million to 7.3 million in the fourth quarter and the increasingly globally popular iPhone, which increased 86% from the year-ago quarter.
Likewise, iPad traction continues within the enterprise and 97% of US tablet web access came from the iPad.
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In the non-iPad tablet market, Texas Instruments commands the leadership position with 47% unit shipment share.
Earlier this year Jobs was asked what consumer research Apple had conducted in developing the iPad tablet.
The move was part of a "productivity initiative designed to simplify business processes" and comes as rival products such as the iPad tablet computer eat into HP's sales.
No one has made the perfect tablet yet: the iPad is a great product, but it's limited and I find myself having to use a computer to perform certain tasks.
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The iPad tablet accounts for about 20 percent.
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Since taking over as CEO in August, Cook, a longtime operations executive who was hired by Jobs in 1998, has successfully steered the company as it capitalizes on skyrocketing demand for the iPhone and iPad tablet.
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Apple sent out invitations to a special event on Oct. 23 feeding speculation CEO Tim Cook will finally introduce a smaller-screen version of the popular iPad tablet and make it available in time for the holiday shopping season.
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The Cupertino-based company is expected to unveil the latest version of its tablet, the iPad 3.
The majority of those respondents believed the iPad or another tablet would take that spot.
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Its relative success not only inspired the launch of devices such as the Google Nexus 7, but it likely nudged Apple into the new midsize tablet market with the iPad Mini.
Despite the money, time and expertise put into crafting these devices, it was rival Apple that made the breakthrough with the iPad and reignited the tablet market that Microsoft could arguably say it started.
Frank Nuovo, a former designer at Nokia, recently told the Journal that Nokia had prototypes which anticipated the iPhone and tablet computers like the iPad well before Apple brought either product to market.
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