When you think about the iPad, you think about quality and performance. The iPad is certainly not the first tablet PC of its kind when Apple first released it, but, without a doubt, it changed the field completely. It can do so much more than what the other tablets at that time could. Not only was it capable of staying on longer, but it performed smoothly, efficiently, and had unbridled access to the ever-growing Apple App Store. That basically allowed it to do virtually anything.
The iPad’s Influence
The iPad could run games, play movies, and facilitate web browsing and document-creation—virtually anything you could do with a PC including creating graphics (that’s what tablet pens are for). It can communicate via VoIP service or phone service, and do so with clear voice and video; this is especially true in its newest incarnations. Apple’s iPad figuratively forced the rest of the tablet industry to shape up or be left behind.
And do so, they did-these days, a lot of the tablets on the market can perform just as well as an iPad can. The Samsung’s latest version of the Galaxy Note (10.1), for instance, has proven itself as more than capable of performing for even the most particular of users. It has already been touted as the Android Tablet to get for the season. Even Google has gotten in on the action as people laud its efforts with the Nexus 7 and the Nexus 10, both of which fall within user budgets while still performing very well.
But beyond all that, iPad still is the top name in tablets. Why is that?
Why the iPad has such a strong hold
People might be thinking that the iPad is on the downward slope. After all, market shares back n Q3 took the first major blow from the slew of high-performance tablets running on Android or other OSes. However, the experts at Strategy Analytics beg to differ: they project that the dominance of the iPad would continue for another six years.
One of the reasons why this is true is because of the App Store. Without a shadow of a doubt, the App store is the de-facto major App market to go to. True, the number of apps for Android is growing, and Microsoft has thrown its hand in, but users have already begun complaining about Microsoft’s horrendous App store performance, and Android simply can’t hold a candle to the pure vastness of the Apple App Store. Google Play also cannot quite match up to its major competitor due to the fact that Apple has a unified store for movies, podcasts, music, and ebooks, along with the apps. The only other service capable of competing with that is Amazon, but the Kindle Fire is yet to perform the way an iPad can.
The analysts believe that the power of the store as the gatekeeper of all the excellent performance apps that can only be used with an Apple product will ensure that the iPad will keep dominating the tablet market for at least five or six years.
