When it comes to a race to the bottom in the 7-8″ tablet space, I think Android has that exact problem. When the Nexus 7 came out, it was a good tablet for the price, but it wasn’t exactly high-end. Sure, it had a great CPU, but lacked micro SD card support, HDMI, the display was only so-so, and it took nearly a year to get a charging dock that used the pogo pins.
Fast forward to now and we have about 9,000 Android tablets on the market with a similar form factor, and I’m not sure any of them are as good as the Nexus 7. Maybe the Galaxy Note 8.0 is the only one I can think of, but it seems that the rest are only interested in competing with Google on price.
Even in the 10″ space, there’s only a handful that compete favorably with the Nexus 10, mainly the Asus Transformer tablets.
Edited 2013-06-07 03:20 UTC