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Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by pjmlp on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:31PM (#17568600)
Not really, they are winning the desktop and tablets (2-1) war.

Desktops aren't going away, and Macs are pretty much an US phenomenon, alongside a couple of other countries.

Likewise, Android tablets aren't that good, with most of the apps being phone apps. Google now is playing with ChromeOS for tablets, which also remains to be seen where it goes.

So, most consumer shops around here are now mostly selling iPads and Windows 10 tablets.

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Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by bitmapbrother on Thursday July 19, 2018 @02:50PM (#17569249)
>Not really, they are winning the desktop and tablets (2-1) war.

According to tablet market share stats they are clearly not winning that war and not even a serious competitor.

>Likewise, Android tablets aren't that good, with most of the apps being phone apps.

Most of the Android apps I use on tablets all resize fine to use the extra space. I consider trying to use desktop apps that are not optimized for a touch interface a much worse experience.

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Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by pjmlp on Thursday July 19, 2018 @04:34PM (#17570013)
We would appreciate to see the worldwide numbers of those stats.

Well, that wasn't the message being discussed at Google IO, specially at the ChromeOS sessions regarding usability.

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Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by bitmapbrother on Thursday July 19, 2018 @05:53PM (#17570663)
Global tablet market share held by tablet vendors from 2nd quarter 2011 to 1st quarter 2018. Microsoft is no where to be found.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/276635/market-share-held...

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Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by pjmlp on Friday July 20, 2018 @02:26AM (#17572919)
That marketshare is by brand, not OS.

From what I see here there are lots of Windows tablets to be had, from various vendors.

http://www.mediamarkt.de/de/category/_2in1-convertibles-5420...

https://www.saturn.de/de/category/_2-in-1-convertibles-46890...

Which are the ones actually on display when I go to those shops.

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Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by bitmapbrother on Friday July 20, 2018 @12:24PM (#17576400)
StatCounter also indicates that Windows tablets have nearly no marketshare.

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/tablet/worldwide

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Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by pjmlp on Friday July 20, 2018 @01:06PM (#17576837)
Faire enough, it just looks quite different when going into local consumer shops and what is available to buy on premises.

So I wonder where they are being bought from, is everyone getting them from Amazon?!

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Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by bitmapbrother on Friday July 20, 2018 @04:11PM (#17578508)
Microsoft and their partners do sell millions of tablets per year, it's just that their unit sales pale in comparison to Android and iOS tablets. I'm also not even sure if Microsoft calls their Surface line tablets anymore. Their product page now calls them laptops which is odd considering you sort of need the optional keyboard to be a laptop.

>So I wonder where they are being bought from, is everyone getting them from Amazon?!

Amazon accounts for good percentage of tablets sold. I bought an Amazon Fire 8 HD for $49 during Prime Day. At that price it's an instant purchase.

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