![]() The 12.9 inch iPad Pro starts at $800 (32GB model) and the 12.3 inch Surface Pro 4 at $899, both without must have accessories like the keyboard.Īn entry level Sony Vaio Z Canvas Windows 10 tablet will set you back $2,200.įor the price of an entry level iPad Pro or a Surface Pro 4 tablet from Microsoft, you can get a 55-inch LED 3D TV from Sony or a 60-inch Vizio LED TV plus one full year of Netflix streaming.Īs tablet screen sizes and prices increase, consumers will likely view large screen, smart TVs as providing better entertainment and gaming value. Third, tablet prices still remain at high levels while the cost of other consumer electronic devices like TVs have fallen sharply. Tablets remain largely a consumer entertainment play. Second, businesses have never been a huge driver of tablet sales.īarring retail POS and a few high profile orders at airlines, tablets have not made a huge impact in the business arena. Our four-year-old iPad 2 is going strong and we have no plans to replace it. Most users are content with their existing iPad or Android tablets. Tablet vendors seeking to drive growth face multiple problems that larger displays will not fix.įirst, tablet owners are not in a hurry to replace their devices. In our view, larger screen tablets are unlikely to provide a fillip to tablet sales.Īpple, Samsung, Sony and others are chasing a chimera with their large screen tablets. It’s as if tablet vendors together believe that a bigger display is the silver bullet to galvanize sales. Samsung’s new Galaxy View tablet has a whopping 18.4 inch screen while the company’s older line of Galaxy Note Pro and Galaxy Tab Pro sport 12.2 inch screens.Īsus, Sony, Dell and several other vendors also now offer tablets with displays of 12-inches or more. Bigger ScreensĪmidst a drought in tablet sales, comes a wave of 12-inch tablets.Īpple’s iPad Pro has a 12.9 inch display while Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4 and Surface Pro 3 come in at 12.3 inches and 12 inches respectively. The picture is bleak for Samsung, Asus, Sony and scores of other tablet vendors too. According to IDC’s tablet market share estimates for the third quarter of 2015, Surface was not even among the Top Five vendors and had less than 1.8% share.Īpple’s iPad tablet sales have fallen for the last seven quarters. Still, Surface/Surface Pro continues to struggle and Microsoft’s share of the tablet market remains pitifully low. Over the last three years, Microsoft has put out multiple versions of its Surface and Surface Pro tablet line (not including the Surface Book laptop with a detachable screen for use as a tablet). It’s no secret that Microsoft’s Surface tablets have been a disaster costing the company nearly a billion dollars in losses. Tablets have not been on anyone’s hot, must buy list for the last couple of years.Īnd it shows in the poor performance numbers of major tablet vendors. ![]() Will large screen tablets from Apple and Microsoft spur growth in the flagging tablet market? ![]() As the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro goes on sale at Best Buy, Apple stores and Amazon, a big question looms on many minds. ![]()
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