Listen up , iPad owners ! Katherine Noyes state your favorite pad of paper is getting a pink miscue !
“ Android Tablets Beating Out iPad in Business and IT : Report ”
Oh , no ! Our iGod has iFailed us ! Once again we see that there is nothing we can possess that Open Source software can not take out ! curse YOU , ANDROOOOOOOOOID !
Well … uh … should we bother clicking through to the survey to see what it really says ? No . ripe ? Seriously , there ’s no way of life Katherine could be making open - source stack out of survey mole - hills , correct ?
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Oh , wait , that’sexactly what she ’s doing . lease ’s watch Noyes ’s personal echo chamber build to a deafening crescendo of reverberation !
Apple ’s iPad may still be considered the king of tablets in many quarter , but new enquiry data point casts a phantom of doubt over how long that will continue .
Dun - dun - DUNNNNNNNNN !
In fact , a full 44 pct of first - sentence lozenge buyers in business and IT plan to purchase an Android twist in the approaching 12 months , compare with just 27 percent planning to go with an iPad , according to a new study from IDG Connect ( IDG Connect is part of IDG , which own PCWorld.com ) .
MOAR ANDROID WINNING . Yes , of all the people who ’ve so far balk grease one’s palms a tablet for fear of anger their incorporated information engineering science gods , 44 percent said they were give out to buy an Android gadget instead of an iPad . This is truly annihilative , and the year of the open - germ pad of paper is now unquestionably upon us . QED .
A few lines down in the bit , Noyes lets the open - source devil on her shoulder get the good of her :
For future purchases , though , Android was clearly the preferent choice , with 44 per centum of respondent saying they ’d opt a machine that uses the Linux - base operating system .
really , no ! Katherine aim it correct at first and then could n’t refuse exaggerating it . It ’s not “ succeeding purchases , ” it ’s “ first - sentence ” purchases . And we all know how substantial sketch that foretell future purchasing demeanor are , right-hand ?
Cough .
Let ’s check outwhat IDG in reality allege , since Noyes seems unclear :
Results show that 71 % of respondents own a tablet , 51 % of these have an iPad , butmore first metre buyerswill opt for Android over the next 12 months :
— 44 % will corrupt an Android tab
— 27 % will buy an iPad
— 3 % will opt for Windows 8
— 21 % are n’t certain
( Emphasis the Macalope ’s . )
In other Word , of the 29 percent that have n’t yet buy a lozenge , 44 per centum said they were going to grease one’s palms an Android gimmick . That ’s 399 of the 3124 survey .
In Noyes ’s defense , the IDG press release about this sketch also prepare heady claim not support by the evidence .
IDG Connect ’s study of 3124 worldwide IT and business professional demonstrates a startling move away from iPads , especially in develop regions .
The only way you could show there was a “ move away ” is if you showed that they previously favored the iPad . The Macalopedownloaded the ashen paperand it offers no diachronic resume results at all , just diachronic market share . Somehow , though , whoever wrote it had no compunctions about making high-flown assumption that favor Android :
Now that a bulk ( 71 % ) of job and IT executive director around the world own tablets , the securities industry ’s centre of solemnity is shifting toward buyer who regard Android as their preferred choice .
IDG seems to assume that people who have purchased pill will never purchase another again and that from here on out the only secret plan is the people who have been expect this whole tablet thing out , on news report of how it might just bea fad . Let ’s wait at IT master , who are more anti - iPad than the business professionals they patronise :
49 % of IT professionals presently own an iPad . 42 % own an Android tab . However , among IT pro who do n’t yet own a tablet , 49 % say they will buy an Android tablet . Only 26 % say they will buy an iPad .
49 plus 42 is 91 ! You ’re getting all excited about at most 9 pct ! And the iPad ’s already have by a pack ofIT professionals?These people hate Apple ! This is peradventure the group in the world least dispose to corrupt the company ’s product ! You buried the lede !
And this is what Noyes calls Android “ beating ” the iPad .
Even if Android captures half of the “ IT professional ” whodon’t own a tablet yet , that ’s still not enough to capture up to the iPad .
The Macalope does n’t make market place - ploughshare predictions because this stuff moves too tight to attain with any accuracy . But suffice it to say that the overblown reaction to a subset of numbers from a survey of the flighty preferences of buyer not curious enough about pad of paper to already own one — in a piece of the grocery notoriously hostile to Apple — doesn’t leave him concerned about the next outlook for the iPad .
