Android OS Tablet PC: Is It Really Free?
Tablet PCs running on the Android operating system are gaining a significant segment of the tablet market. Despite the big launches of competing operating systems, all tablet brands running on the open source Android operating system are generating the most sales. This implication for you as a vendor of technology devices is that the Android operating system market is where you need to move your business.
Android Phone vs Android Tablet PC
Within the segment of devices based on the Android operating system, it has several niches and two main contenders here are Android phones and Android tablets. Again, if you’ve been following market trends, discussion forums, or technology leaders, you as a communication device vendor can now see that there will soon be a divide between the large smartphone and the multitasking Android tablet. personal computer.
Android tablets are already off to a rocky start given their inherent characteristics of open source software, the use of multi-vendor hardware, and the essential features of a well-performing device: connectivity, security, battery life, and affordability.
First Advantage with Android OS Tablets: It’s Free
The advantage of software developed in Open Source format is that it is free and everyone can use it. Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora are the various software names in which such free open source software can be developed. Second, anyone can use it, modify it, and share it again with the user community. In the case of the Android operating system (the source code or the software to run tablets, phones, or any other device), the free source code developed by Google is free to use by anyone. This is not the case with iOS or the Operating System that Apple used to develop its suite of devices like the iPhone, iPad or iPod. iOS is proprietary software that is secretly protected by Apple and is not free for anyone else to use.
Android OS, although owned by Google, is free for any other manufacturer, etc., to use in their own products, make changes to it, etc. The result is that manufacturers don’t pay for the OS, but still have a superior, cutting-edge OS to put on the China tablets they make. This is one of the main reasons for the low prices of tablets from China.
Second Advantage with Android OS Tablets: Affordable H/W, s/w and Rich Features
The Android operating system can be built to be compatible with off-the-shelf hardware components. Therefore, Chinese manufacturers can build their Android tablets with cheap hardware. Again, some of the manufacturers use name brand hardware, in which case, they make for high value tablets but less expensive than name brand tablets nonetheless.
Also, Android OS is fully enabled for the entire Google suite such as Gmail, Skype, Google Maps, etc., so all tablets made with this OS will come pre-installed with the Google family. Advantage tablets from China.
Third advantage with the sale of tablets with the Android operating system: it is legal
Therefore, it is not illegal to buy and sell tablets with the Android operating system, since the inherent license of the software allows it. This is not the case with iOS and selling or buying outside of Apple Stores can sometimes be a high risk investment.
Android tablets from Chinese suppliers win as follows
Sellers can offer their most demanding buyers two value systems of tablets, a budget device of average performance and the second variety, which are of high value and show performance that sometimes surpasses branded tablets such as Motorola Xoom, Samsung Galaxy in the pricing department too.