Slashgear estimates that, out of approximately 190 million Android devices, just 3.4 million of them run Honeycomb, the tablet version of Android.
In other words, there are less than 4 million Google-certified Android tablets out there. For comparison, Apple sold 9.25 million iPads in the last quarter alone.
Ouch. This is why Dell was smart to abandon Android tablets in favor of Windows 8.
Of course, the Amazon Fire tablet is coming out soon, but you can’t even consider it an Android device at this point. That thing is all about Amazon’s ecosystem.
Why the hatin’ on Android tabs?  What’s the basis  of your assessment of Dell being smart to go to Win8?  Or are you just turning into MG Siegler and oPad fanboy? C’mon Ben! I have a 7″ Galaxy Tab and love it.  Tons of apps, very fast, long battery life, much more portable than the 10″ tabs, incl. iPad.
He’s not hating, he talking pure sales numbers.
Yes, it’s too easy to tell if Dell focusing on Win8 is a smart choice. Will people pick Win8 tabs over the iPad? Who knows.
The sales numbers speak for themselves, Peter. I prefer empirical evidence over anecdotal evidence. And the empirical evidence says Android tablets are a failure.
Microsoft’s got the best chance now because Windows is a stronger brand and it has found a way to merge the tablet and the desktop OS into one.Â
Ouch is right :-/
In its first year iPad sold 15M. In its first 9 months Honeycomb sold under 4M. That puts them somewhere around 6M for the year. Â Apple may do 24M iPads in the same time frame this year. That’s Honeycomb going from 0% to 20% marketshare in a year. In any other market a new entry with those kind of results would be considered a triumph. In any other consumer electronics niche selling 6M of a new platform in it’s first year would be considered a triumph. It’s only relative to the iPad’s first-mover success that this is considered disappointing.Â
You should be the tech blogger instead of Ben. Cold hard facts and insight is what we need, not fan boy musings from Ben.