Gadgetory

the iPad it flat-out dominates the tablet market as we speak with something around 80 percent market share but just as Android phones pulled up neck and neck with the iPhone Android tablets could do the same I'm Brian Cooley with top five ways but that could happen according to developers who write tablet apps number five new places to buy apps iPad is of course tied to the iTunes Store but the IDC research with developers says that while it's the biggest not everyone thinks it's the best you see developers like freedom almost as much as they like beer so steve-o's parental ways in the iTunes Store have them always seeking looser ground developers would also like to have multiple app stores for any given tablet like Amazon and Android Marketplace and many others the number four way developers tell IDC research that Android can beat Apple in the tablet game is the honeycomb OS out of a secret weapon this is that new version of Android specifically built for tablets it debuts first on the Motorola Xoom which was seen that's best of CES award winner for 2011 and for the first time it will give us an Android flavor that really stretches out and rocks a larger screen plus support for multi-core processors built-in management tools for business customers - that could also fuel a lot of sales number three more bells and whistles let's face it Apple has the knack of giving you less and convincing you it's more don't how they do that but things like cameras expansion ports different sizes 4G oh yeah and flash support so you can actually use the web those might all print with consumers in ways that the iPad doesn't and may never do number two developers say control fragmentation this is kind of under the hood but it's key you see there are many flavors of Android at any given time you've gotta be seen all these 2.1 2.2 2.3 honeycomb is 3.0 they're all out there in the wild competing for consumer attention then add the various skins that hardware makers put over and Roy to make a look like their own deal now you got a serious threat of confusing people to death and getting them to flock back to the land of simple Steve's house before we get to our number one way that Android tablets could beat the iPad here are five of the most anticipated Android tablets that are either on the way or on the market for 2011 as we speak kind of a formidable onslaught wouldn't you say okay the number one way developers think that Android tablets can outshine the iPad is be cheaper that's right this is Apple's Achilles heel their stuffs expensive and a lot of folks like cheaper imagine that the iPad starts at 500 goes up to about 8:30 that's a month's net pay for a lot of people they're not gonna be running around with an iPad Android tablets will be in heavy price competition both between the makers of some what 80 or 90 models that are coming on market as well as between the retailers will have the flexibility to discount them unlike Apple products now of course stay on top of all the new Android tablets that are coming out we covered them obsessively on cnet.com and for more top fives like this one go to top-5 cnet.com i'm brian coulis thanks for watching