Marco Arment, the author of Instapaper, put together this fabulous graph: Android tablets and the tablets of other manufacturers (e.g. BlackBerry Playbook) are selling at rates comprable to failed video game systems from the 80s. In other words, you are likely not to get a single new customer by developing a tablet app for a non-iPad platform. Even if the cost … Read More
iPad outselling Android tablets 24-to-1
Thanks to John Gruber’s clever arithmetic, we now know that the iPad is outselling Android tablets 24-to-1. It’s easy to forget in the marketshare battle that Apple’s dominance is much larger than phones. iOS software runs on three platforms: iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, with a combined install base of over 200 million units. Not to mention Apple’s 11% North … Read More
