According to market analyst firm Canalys Microsoft is beating Apple when it comes to the enterprise tablet market in UK. Microsoft managed to sell more than double the number of Surface Pro tablets into enterprise compared to the iPad Pro in Q1 2016. In the period the iPad Pro sold 107,000 units while the Surface Pro moved 275,000, up from 83,000 a year ago. Importantly the data is only for the enterprise market, with Apple tablets handedly outselling Surface tablets in the consumer market. The consumer market however appears to be in decline, down 8% in UK in Q1 2016 and Apple’s strategy of turning to the enterprise market appears to not be as successful as they have hoped. “One of the problems facing Apple is price, the other is familiarity and applications,” said Tim Coulling, senior analyst at Canalys. The Surface is an “easier sell” to businesses because of compatibility with the existing corporate infrastructure. “It is a difficult market for Apple,” said the analyst. The iPad Pro’s high price remains a barrier to adoption he said. “People don’t necessarily want to pay the price and aren’t that impressed with the pen,” said one. “Business customers want the iPad Air and education customers the Mini.”

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Google Is Preparing To Add The Raspberry Pi 3 To AOSP, It Will Apparently Become An Officially Supported Device

The Raspberry Pi 3 appears to be on track to receive official AOSP support from Google. At least,that is the most obvious conclusion based on the fact that Google has created a code repository forit within the same directory that also includes the Nexus devices and generic source code.

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The Raspberry Pi 3, the latest iteration of the cheap, simple, and small computer, is marketed as adevice to promote more engagement with computer science and programming. It has also gained agreat deal of support from DIY types, who have rigged them up for all manner of uses. Given theopen source-centric nature of existing software for Raspberry Pi—nearly all operating systemsavailable for the devices are open source and Linux-based—it makes good sense that Google wouldtake the time to make Android run on them as well.

On the other hand, Google may not necessarily be working on getting Android to run on the deviceitself, but rather could be adding support for Android to interface with the Pi for other purposes.

The public repository was created 5 weeks ago, but Google hasn’t yet released any code and there’sno telling when they will. In any case, when it does come around it will make for a nice alternative forRaspberry Pi users and could, with some prodding from Google, get novice programmers usingAndroid.

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