Android vs. iOS: What is the reason behind Apple’s success in tablet market? – Part 1

Apple, Inc.’s iPad has been the undefeated champion of the tablet market since the dawn of such culture, which was set by none other than Apple itself. To this date, there have entered many competitors in the tablet market but none have succeeded to fight a good fight with iPad.

Google, Inc.’s mobile operating system Android, which ironically tows the line of Apple’s iOS, is considered one of the major competitors in the market or the only foe for that matter. However, one of the successful operating systems in smartphone category has failed to follow the same suit in the tablet market.

Last year saw a slate of the tablets pouring into the marketplace but none to touch the apex where Apple has planted the winning flag. The likes of Motorola, Samsung, Dell and HP failed to humble a single competitor only because of two major reasons; smoothness and features.

Apple boasts a smooth and stutterless operating system and a web browser that fill all the cracks left in the smartphones and other mobile devices. Although there is no Adobe Flash support in iOS but that is aptly addressed by HTML 5 and QuickTime.

On the other hand, with Android, the web browsing experience is even worse than the operating system itself. The mobile version of the websites are usually not support and surfing better left at the desktop versions, which any person who has used internet on a mobile device would understand is quite cumbersome at best.

However, the only player in the market, who has neared the competition between the iPad and Android, is Amazon’s Kindle Fire, a company that is not even remotely related to hardware business, let alone the mobile devices.

However, there are two reasons why Kindle Fire became a success out of the slew of tablets showered in the market last year. First one is the price and second is the operating system and its features.

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Posted by Usman Khalid on Feb 17 2012. Filed under Sci-Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.