Michael Dell: Android tablets will overtake iPad

Android tablets will definitely surpass iPads eventually. The market will be huge soon and definitely be able to drive sales towards Android tablets. My favorite is the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Only problem is finding the best deals on tablets, but I got it covered.

http://www.androidtabletuniverse.com

And again... quantity doesn't mean quality.

Michael Dell is a MORON, and a follower/copy-cat!
He doesn't know WTF he is talking about.
Android will never overtake Apple, never in a million years!
Just look at the junk he produces!
I bought a Dell, Once... ...threw the PIECE OF CRAP in the garbage shortly there after!
SERIOUSLY, DELL ISN'T WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN ANYTHING! ESPECIALLY IT'S WORD!

Mike Dell is just trying to grab a share of the reality distortion field...

See, comparing the tremendous growth in the phone market to the tablet market growth isn't going to work.

The reason that the market grew so fast is that most of the Android phones we subsidized and subsequently given out for free, or 2 for one deals. That tactic works because people want free stuff.

When it comes to the tablet market, they have to, for the most part, stand on their own and the consumer has to pay full price. This is where the iPad is leading the pack. And even the iPhone is doing plenty good in a market where people have to pay for the phone .

It appears that, if given a choice to pay the same price for an iPad or an android tab, the consumer seems to gravitate towards the iPad.

I don't think that analyst CEOs or even analysts should compare the growth of android phones with the tablet market.

However as more and more clones come out, there may be a saturation of cheap tablets that will only hurt the android in the long run, and with cheap knock-offs you get what you pay for and if it leaves a bad taste in your mouth, you'll go to the iPad or none at all.

This still will mean apple will be outselling any other single manufacturer.

The other reason Android tablets won't overtake Apple's is because Eric Schmidt is no longer around in Apple's board copying their ideas.

Dell? Aren't they the same people who were including the price of a mouse in the total cost of an iPad?

Sounds like a real smart company...

Looking forward to see Dell's tablets with mice attached!

He forgets basic Business 101, It's not how many you sell it's how profitable you are. Apple will continue to generate more revenue and be more profitable than Dell so the rest is purely academic.

There are many reasons why tablets running Android won't overtake the iPad. The biggest one is: the manufacturers don't understand the tablet market. At all. They throw hardware specs, and form factors, and monthly updates of the OS at the wall just to see what sticks. That isn't research; it's monkeys in a cage.

Android did as good as they did partly because the iphone was restricted to AT&T. Android was on every other carrier. If anyone wanted a decent touch screen smart phone on another carrier they had android as an option. The ipad is available to everyone. To accurately make the comparison to the smartphones you would need to see what would've happened if iphone was available to everyone also. Would Android still have caught up?