What truly makes a Tablet is its selection of applications, and is the major reason that the iPad is King. Otherwise, you have just a large piece of glass with a display and 1 GHz processor + and cameras and all the rest. What separates the iPad from the rest, is not only its intuitive OS, but the fact that you can do a lot with this slab of glass and metal due to its portfolio of app.
The iTunes App Store is now packed with more 100,000 apps made just for the iPad. By comparison, Android honeycomb, the platform on the Motorola Xoom and Galaxy tab 10.1 has apps in the low hundreds digit, so it still has a very long way to go.
Just think, in a little more than a year that the compressed iOS has managed to accumulate an impressive number of applications dedicated to the tablet. Publishers of film at the games and utilities and entertainment apps, you would be hard-pressed to find something that you would like on the absent shelf of the app store.
CNET puts it in a different and more impressive perspective:
At this time last year there were 11,000 native iPad apps, up to 5,000 about a month after the product is released. In March of this year, while introducing the iPad 2, Apple announced that it was up to 65 000 applications. And a few weeks earlier, at the WWDC the company said that it is slightly over 90 000.
It is quite impressive growth for a device that has been equally impressive sales. Any publicity he received certainly helped-how can a product do not well with the approval of Oprah? Each quarter, Apple continues to impress investors and the press with its iPad and iOS device sales.
So if you are considering a new Tablet and selection app is important to you, the Apple iPad is really your only option. There is no arguing that.
