In an interview Thursday, June 2nd, Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen spoke about the fact that even with Apple’s early lead in the tablets market he feels in the long term Google’s Android will win out. It’s no coincidence that he would make such statements as the Android runs Adobe flash.
“What you saw with smartphones hitting an inflection point with Android, you’ll see it again with tablets,” he said.
“There will be another 20 tablets that will come by the end of the year that will push the industry in different directions,” he said.
With the Android OS being on the majority of tablets out on the market it is hard press to see Apple keepings stranglehold on the market forever. Although Android has put a big dip into the mobile phone market for Apple is not unreasonable to think it could happen with the tablet market as well.