With the iPad’s evident success, other companies have realized the benefits of releasing such a product in the market. A company that capitalized on this is Samsung, with their recent release of the Samsung Galaxy S Tab as their version of a tablet on the market, but has Samsung made a worthy competitor to battle the iPad? There is no simple answer to this question, yet. The Samsung Galaxy S Tab annihilates the iPad in certain specs such as having double the RAM, and allowing up to 32 GB of expandable storage. Along with this, Android software supports many features the OS for the iPad does not, including full Adobe flash support, multitasking, and the most important being unrestricted access to applications; Apple is known for harshly censoring apps. But even with these features, the simplicity the iPad operating system offers seems to be attractive to those who aren’t tech savvy yet want to own a tablet. Apple has seized the non-tech people in the market with their attractive and user-friendly product, leaving them oblivious to the benefits offered by the more complex Android tablet. They have positioned their brand to those going for style and simplicity (which happens to be a vast majority), and have done it successfully. Apple has taken over this market, for other tablets to be successful, they need to position their brand to other consumers, or find a way to overtake Apple’s target, which is unlikely considering the time advantage they’ve had.

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