I'm pretty sure I said I agree with you...yep, I did. Relax brother this ain't life or death. I'm simply pointing out that apple products are being adopted by enterprise faster and by a majority over android devices. That's a fact. I'm just happy we are adopting mobile tech in the workplace...I dont care who makes it. I get excited by new tech.
Where I work, yes doctors and researchers are using very specific apps from what I understand, but it helps them get their jobs done, that's what matters. I work in purchasing and have yet to see anyone from the 30,000 plus employees request anything except an iPad when buying a tablet. They are free to buy anything they want.
Again I agree with you that android offers more business like architecture and way more flexibility, and that's why the US Army is using Android devices in the field. I ain't your enemy, Mr 53 year old as far from a teenage girl as one can get.
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Well... you used the double negative version: You didn't disagree with me. And for that... you must die! ;-)
I think you're premature on your iPad over Android tablet announcement. iPad has a distinct advantage at the moment. They don't have anyone to compete against.
Let's be honest. The Android tablet market stepped on there you-know-what. The real kickoff was late 2010 with the 7inch Galaxy Tab, based on a phone-only OS.
Ouch! Then came the supposed game changer... the XOOM with Honeycomb.
Double Ouch!!! Honeycomb was awful! It was hard to love, even for the Android fan-boys.
Even today, the official ICS OTA upgrade
IS STILL NOT OUT for the XOOM!!! Worse, when you go to the Motorola site, they don't even list a date for the 4G XOOM to get ICS!
Luckily, there are a few developer ICS ROMs out there for those of us with 4G XOOMs. I'm running the Eos ICS ROM and loving it. The tablet is finally complete!!! Awesome... just awesome.
IMHO, ICS is the first true Android tablet OS that "just works" and can truly compete and beat iPad. The trouble is most Android tablets don't even have it yet.
Once the Tablet playing field actually has two players on it, then we can start discussing which is being adopted.
Even with only one player on the field, I don't see enterprise running toward iPad. I see them waiting for someone to answer their needs. iOS doesn't. Android can, but essentially hasn't yet and people are wary of the new promises of ICS. These are promises they've heard before.
My sector (semi makers) don't use iProducts. We overwhelmingly use Android. Our teenage daughters use iProducts. ;-) My company, in particular, will not allow iProducts on our net. They are not secure. Apple insists on controlling everything, including the levels of possible security/encryption their devices are capable of. This makes iProducts and non-starter for our industry. Of course, there may be some exceptions in my industry (don't know of any, but nothing is 100%). I travel for work visiting our clients, about 75 hotel nights per year. I meet with a lot of electronics companies. More than you can shake a stick at... and I'm sure you can shake a stick at many things. ;-) The overwhelming majority of the engineers and managers I meet in the electronics sector are Android based.
I've got to believe if your infoworld writer would have polled more than 400 people and included people from all sectors, his data would be quite different.
If you follow the World Wide Market numbers, you may have noticed that Apple no longer separately reports iPhones and iPads. They now include iPod Touch to bolster their numbers. They were shamed by the fact that the Android OS now controls more than 50% of the World Wide Mobile Phone and Tablet OS market with an incredibly steep growth slope. In contrast, Apple's percentage of the WW market has struggled to stay in the upper teens and has been flat, flat, flat! Adding the iPod touch turns the data into crap, IMHO. Heck everyone has an iPod Touch. It's the only game in town in that space. But it's not a phone. It's not a tablet. It's really just a toy.