"Apple will lose its overwhelming dominance of the consumer tablet space within the next three years, according to a prediction from analyst Jack Gold," Nicholas Kolakowski reports for eWeek.
"His research note also predicts that Microsoft will own roughly 10 percent of the consumer tablet market by that 2014-2015 timeframe, beating out Research In Motion's QNX operating system with less than 10 percent but losing out to iOS (30 percent) and Android (50 percent)," Kolakowski reports. "'By 2014-15 we expect Android tablets to acquire a majority share of the consumer market as the number of vendors and variety of models overwhelm the iPad,' Gold wrote in a Nov. 1 research note accompanying the data."
Kolakowski reports, "He sees RIM's QNX market as primarily 'security conscious industries and governments (while also being bedded in automotive and other products.' A small percentage of the space will be held by "primarily Linux-derived and/or HTML5-centric OSes" such as Tizen and Chrome."
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MacDailyNews Take: "It's déjà vu all over again." – Yogi Berra
"I am pretty skeptical. I don't think [iPhone] will meet the fantastic predictions I have been reading. For starters, while Apple basically established the market for portable music players, the phone market is already established, with a number of major brands. Can Apple remake the phone market in its image? Success is far from guaranteed." – Jack Gold, January 11, 2007
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