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Samsung Halts Galaxy Tablet Promotion In Germany
An anonymous reader writes "Samsung Electronics said Sunday it has pulled its latest Galaxy tablet from the IFA trade show in Berlin, after a German court approved an Apple-requested injunction — the latest move in a wide-reaching patent dispute between the two firms."
Apple: Think different, or we will sue you!
The only way someone this late in the game is going to buy an Android tablet is one of three ways:
1) Integrated as part of an ereader (B&N, soon Amazon, etc)
2) Potential customer has never used an iPad before
3) Potential customer bought online without test driving one in a store first
Don't get me wrong, I love android (and my android phone), but until Google sorts out Android on the tablet, Apple's product is still light years ahead of Android in the tablet market (i.e. for the average consumer, don't tell me about App Launcher X for the power user please). Android has a long ways to go to be competitive in this market, and I suspect the only reason corporations/manufacturers are being dragged kicking and screaming in to this market (how many CEOs have flat out gone on the record to denounce the tablet market in slashdot stories in the last quarter?) is that stockholders want a piece of that Juicy iPad Market despite android not being ready. If I was being forced by the board and stockholders to produce an Android tablet, I'd be making the same cautious remarks about sales figures, and doing premptive damage control now rather than after the Christmas retail season where retailers are sitting on mountains of unsold non-iPad tablet stock.
The hardware is amazing, but until Android catches up, tablets are going to be a non-starter in the retail sector unless you can dramatically improve the software by ten-fold, or get the price of a full-featured 9" tablet under $150
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