The smartphone market is pretty hot right now. Apple and Google are fighting very religiously over it. There were few factors which enabled Google to gain a considerable market share like pricing and multiple carriers, and Google was able to exploit them pretty well. But tablet market is something very different, and it will be fascinating to what will happen in the future with the tablet industry. 1) Apple has secured future contracts with suppliers which enabled them to produce a tablet at lower price point which (as yet) cannot be matched by any Google OEM.

2) Since tablet can be used without any contract, there is no carrier tied to it. There was a major factor which enabled Android to gain market share

Due you think that as a result of these two factors there will be no good quality Android tablet at a lower price points. If a $500 tablet is produced by a Google OEM i am sure that a lot of people will buy iPad instead, so i believe that Google OEM need to beat this price point, which is quite hard to for see in future. We all know Amazon is up to something...What do you think will happen in the tablet market?