{"id":1984,"date":"2011-08-04T17:15:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T17:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2011-08-04T17:15:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T17:15:27","slug":"analyst-other-competitors-cant-match-apples-design-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/?p=1984","title":{"rendered":"Analyst: Other Competitors Can’t Match Apple’s “Design Efficiency”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samsung, Motorola, and even Dell have given their all to compete with Apple and the iPad, yet everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still trying to figure out why such competitors can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even come close to iPad sales numbers. iSuppli<\/a> analyst Wayne Lam claims that Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tight control over iPad hardware and software gives the tablet certain \u00e2\u20ac\u0153design efficiencies\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that other\u00c2\u00a0manufacturers\u00c2\u00a0cannot match.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153These efficiencies become obvious in areas like the memory and the battery, where Apple maintains advantages in cost, space savings and performance compared with every competitor in the business.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Other tablet makers employ operating systems from third-party firms\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsuch as Google Inc., which provides the Android software used in most competitive products on the market today. Many of these tablet makers also outsource the blueprints of their products to third parties, employing reference designs and design services from contract manufacturers.<\/p>\n

This contrasts with the model employed by Apple, which uses its own operating system and maintains tight control of its design, components and contract manufacturers.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The analyst argues that, when comparing the iPad and competing Android tablets, Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s manufacturing process has to be considered.<\/p>\n

Apple doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to offer high performance hardware to meet software requirements because Apple maintains control over its products from conception to assembly. Such a system offers Apple the upper hand in terms of hardware\u00c2\u00a0efficiency.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In the current-generation iPad 2, the density of synchronous dynamic random access memory is 512 megabytes\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhalf that of the 1 gigabyte used in competitive designs\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Likewise, the original iPad contained half as much SDRAM as comparable competitive devices with single-core applications processors.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The iPad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s efficient memory usage stems from the fundamental difference in the architecture of the operating system,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Lam said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s iOS handles multitasking differently than other tablet operating systems, allowing it to reduce the amount of memory required to support the microprocessor.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Samsung, Motorola, and even Dell have given their all to compete with Apple and the iPad, yet everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still trying to figure out why such competitors can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even come close to iPad sales numbers. iSuppli analyst Wayne Lam claims that Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tight control over iPad hardware and software gives the tablet certain \u00e2\u20ac\u0153design efficiencies\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tapgamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}