Google came up with an interesting prediction for tablets that gained momentum again with the pandemic. This prediction came from Android co-founder Rich Miner. Accordingly, Miner believes that tablet sales will surpass laptops. Miner has recently returned to Google with a managerial position in charge of Android Tablets. This reminder is “Is Google preparing a new Android tablet called Pixel?” It gave rise to questions.
Actually, Google and many Android phone manufacturers had the same prediction in 2011-2012. As you know, Google has revived the big screen Android experience tried with Android 12L with Honeycomb. But are tablets really the end of the laptop era?
Are Android tablets the new threat to laptops?
At the beginning of 2022, Google reintroduced Rich Miner, one of the Android founders, to Google. Returning to the company as the technology chief responsible for Android tabs, Miner made important statements on the Google YouTube channel. Accordingly, Miner thinks that the tablet market, which started to rise again in 2020, will surpass the laptop market share in the very near future. Miner explained his views in a video for tablets published on the Android Developers YouTube channel.
Rich Miner made important predictions about the rise of the tablet market and Android tablets
He believes that the upward trend in sales will continue. Especially Android tablet manufacturers are in the race to shape their tablet models according to customer expectations. It is an advantage for Android tablets in this sense that many simple operations that can be done with a laptop can be done easily with a tablet.
With the Android 12L version, Google is trying to complete the story it left unfinished with Android 3.0 Honeycomb after years. In those years when Android was still in its infancy, Google released a special Android version for tablets. Google actually gave up on this successful attempt at that time with Android KitKat.
Google has released a special version of Android 12 for tablets and folding phones with Android 12L
The special version of Android 12 for large screens and folding phones is important to this past. a posting. As you know, Google was working on a folding Pixel phone. In fact, important details about this phone appeared in the Android 12L release notes.
However, like many Google projects, this project was shelved. For many years, Google has produced Nexus-branded tablets with companies such as Asus, LG, Huawei, as well as Nexus phones. However, Google, which ended this habit with the Pixel era, may return to the tablet market with a folding or normal Pixel tablet model. One of the points that strengthens this possibility is the fact that an important name like Rich Miner is in charge, especially for Android tablets.
Is Apple, the leader of the tablet market, a threat to the laptop with the M1 processor?
Although Android tablet sales are on the rise, Apple has included the M1 processor in the 5th generation iPad Air model after the iPad Pro. The M1, which is much more performant than other mobile processors, caused the ARM architecture to enter the performance race with the X86 architecture for the first time.
Apple included the M1 processor in the new iPad Air model.
Although the lanes are different, the development of ARM processors may also draw a new roadmap for Android tablets. However, although companies such as Qualcomm and Huawei have invested in this issue, we have not yet encountered an ARM processor at the M1 level.
Tablet technology, which Steve Jobs laid the foundations for in 2010 with the iPad, emerged with a great rise especially between the years 2011-2015. In fact, at that time, Android device manufacturers like Samsung were coming up with hundreds of tablets that were similar in design and naming in just one year. Despite this increasing tablet inflation, Android tablet manufacturers have not stopped producing similar models.
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