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Ha ha, I'm hearing some real Nostradamus stuff here. Like Apple's grip on high-end tablets is at an end? Quit smoking that hallucinogen. At the high end there is currently an iPad market, not a tablet market. You think some new hardware, like the next Transformer Prime, is going to turn the tide? Dream on.
Price some tablets at $300 and below and you can own a serious piece of that market, as demonstrated by B&N and Amazon. But if you price a new non-iPad tablet at $600+ you better prepare for weak sales.
You can call it 'only' marketing if you like but the general public is buying iPads. I see it all around me. But if you think everyone is brainwashed then you don't understand just how well iOS and iPads actually work out-of-the-box.
You may continue to be astonished that iPhones sell so strongly and how public perception of Android fragmentation and a weaker app store is enough for a bunch of people to avoid it. Google could/should step up and set more unified guidelines for hardware and OS updates. Not sure if they will.
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