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To be fair, very few people buy Android tablets nowadays.

Not every region follows the trends of the USA/Anglosphere.

In Germany Apple has like 44% tablet market share; Samsung has 33% [0]. (Presumably the rest are all Android tablets, too.)

[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/tablet/german...

True, I was wrong. In my region (Norway) Apple has 76% of market share according to your source, but it even feels higher. It's indeed not the case everywhere.

This counts throwaway Kindle devices that have something like 5% of the performance of an iPad and nothing like the capability, however. Apples and oranges.

The fact is that there isn't a serious Android tablet market. Not really.

And very few will if this support cycle continues.

Samsung will sell you a device they claim can replace your laptop [1] for >700$ and then add the external keyboard and that can go close to a 1000$

The next generation one can cost over 1000$ [2]

I just don't see how they expect to sell these with 3 years of updates.

[1] https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/tablets/tab-s6/ [2] https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/tablets/tab-s7/

Regardless of how many sell, you are still paying for a $500-800 device which has a very short support life.

what do you mean by very few?

In the UK, Apple market share for tablets seems to be ~65%

So that’s how it looks on the surface...

Of the remainder, how many are the Amazon tablets? They are Android but are specifically designed for content consumption.

It is a growing market from 13% to 18% (compared to Desktop and laptop) https://www.statista.com/statistics/276635/market-share-held...

OS support will be a problem, they are going in the right direction though.

It will be interesting to see if consumers follow.

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