Online Learning Update

April 17, 2011

Google tablets expected to challenge iPad

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor, eCampus News

Android-based tablets will make up 39 percent of the market in 2015, Gartner predicts. Apple’s iPad will maintain tablet supremacy for the next four years, but higher education soon could see an influx of tablets that operate with Google’s operating system (OS) during the same period, according to an April 11 report from IT research company Gartner. After changing the tablet market the way the Apple iPhone “reinvented” the smart-phone market, the iPad and its iOS—Apple’s operating system—account for almost 70 percent of media tablets, while Android-based tablets account for 20 percent of the market, according to Gartner.

http://www.ecampusnews.com/technologies/google-tablets-expected-to-challenge-ipad/

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