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Android Beats iOS As the Top Tablet OS

Posted by Unknown on from the gnu-feeling-left-out dept.

sfcrazy writes "Linux is on a roll. After conquering the smartphone space, Android is now dominating the tablet space. According to a new study by Gartner, 'the tablet growth in 2013 was fueled by the low-end smaller screen tablet market, and first time buyers; this led Android to become the No. 1 tablet operating system (OS), with 62 percent of the market.'" Also, everyone is buying tablets.(~200 million sold in 2013 vs ~115 million in 2012). Microsoft still only has 2% of the tablet market.

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  1. ANDROID != LINUX by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't believe.

    There is NO Posix userspace on Android.
    Posix kernel land is locked/limited.

    Why does it take 16 GB RAM to compile the Android tarball? That's some BEAUTIFUL community inclusion!

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    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."
    1. Re:ANDROID != LINUX by marcello_dl · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Gentlemen, to clear up the terminology confusion, I suggest to:
      - call the kernel "Linux"
      - call the kernel + GNU userland GNU/Linux
      - call the linux based Google's operating system Android/Linux

      The reason nobody else came up with this classification before is beyond me.

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  2. Re:And yet apple sells more tablets than anybody by amiga3D · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What are you smoking? Those shitty tablets have one thing in common and that is a shitty screen. The touch screen is by far the most important part of the tablet experience and a shitty screen makes for one bad experience. That's the first thing I noticed when I picked up the Samsung Galaxy tablet. A screen to rival the iPad. That was the beginning of actual competition. Before that it didn't exist. I see those crap tablets on Craigslist all the time at giveaway prices.

  3. Re:The year of the Linux Tablet by DJRumpy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They do this every time. Gartner left out almost 4 million Apple sales. Those were actual sales, rather than 'shipped'. This happens every time, and we always find out later that Shipped from folks like Samsung != Sales from Apple.

    Apple reports Sales. The others do not.

    http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/03/03/gartner-ignores-apples-sales-numbers-reports-android-marketshare-doubled-ipad-in-2013

  4. Re: The year of the Linux Tablet by kthreadd · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Too bad almost no one uses AOSP, but relies on the Google Play services which are non-free. Almost like saying that OS X is open because Darwin is.