Sluggish Android Tablet Growth May Give Microsoft an Opening

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday August 20, 2011 @01:11AM from the don't-call-it-a-comeback-or-a-slate dept.

theodp writes "In NASCAR, you can finish a race in the Top 3 by leading the whole way or by having spectacular crashes take out those ahead of you. The same may hold true for the tablet race, where Apple has led the whole way, but Microsoft could advance into 2nd or 3rd place as those once ahead of it crash and burn. 'Microsoft tablets based on Windows 8 won't be ready until next year,' notes SplatF's Dan Frommer. 'Unexpectedly, that might not be too late to matter.' Far-fetched as it may seem, Ars Technica's Peter Bright explains why the Windows 8 tablet invasion might work."

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Windows 8 - the new "Hail Mary" by tomhudson · 2011-08-20 01:17 · Score: 4, Insightful

Even Microsofties are now saying "Wait for the unified world of WP8".
In the meantime, Apple continues to sell every tablet they can make, no discounting.
And Android smartphones outsell everyone else.
The "Unified world" will be a divided one - Android smartphones and tablets, and Apple smartphones and tablets. There is no room for a #3 (just like on the desktop, or we would have had a "year of the linux desktop" already) unless you consider < 1% to be "success".