The iPad is Apple’s strongest answer to the Android platform. That’s the word from a firm looking over the web analytics results of some 4 million online users. Although the Google platform has a sharp lead over the iPhone 4, “iPad is outgrowing the entire Android ecosystem so significantly [that] it more than makes up for the iPhone deficiency plus some,” a search engine expert reports.
As for Android’s lead over the iPhone, it is slight and requires the full resources of the Google mobile operating system – both smartphones and tablets – to pull ahead of just one Apple iOS product. “Android has never come close to passing iOS as a whole,” according to Jeff Trimble of ROI365.
Despite Android sales lead in handsets, Apple still ranks as the No. 1 mobile Application store. Although Android’s Market produced 861 percent year-over-year growth between 2009 and 2010, the large gain overlooked Android software revenues rising by just $91 million. Apple’s App Store, while posting only 131.9 percent year-over-year growth, increased revenue reportedly by more than $1 billion.
Still uncertain is how Apple will compete with the growing number of tablet options being offered consumers. Alternatives include Motorola’s Android 3.0-powered Xoom, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab and RIM’s Playbook.
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
4 responses to “iPad Keeping iOS Ahead of Android on the Web”
Take that Android… but then again, there is more to this than total numbers.
1000 Androids don’t = one iPhone… sorry, its true.
It is so interesting to see how much credence is given to vaporware in the tablet market, compared to the overwhelming demand for ipad2. The timing of ipad2 and the significant hardware upgrade and attractive pricing make it the overwhelming choice of millions. While the new arrivals want to compare hardware specs and cling to the continuing need for standard computers, the new apps just keep coming for Apple, and the competition has no infrastructure to complement their yet to arrive offerings. There is a paradigm shift underway. The question of what makes the ipad tablet so desirable? It is so intuitive and simple to use. It is attractive to young, old and all ages in between. It is the software that is being developed that differentiates the marketplace that is exploding.