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At first, it must have looked so easy. Within nanoseconds of Steve Jobs' January 2010 unveiling of the iPad, a gaggle of companies decided to get into the tablet business.
Some decided to design their own operating systems; others chose to license software. Even if they were realistic enough to understand that the odds of outselling the iPad were low, I'll bet all these companies thought there'd be enough of a tablet market to make lots of manufacturers happy.
Instead, the first 1.75 years of the iPad era haven't seen a single non-Apple tablet that's clearly been a solid hit. There have, however, been some high-profile abject failures.
Given that the topic of this blog is new challenges to established successes, I thought it would be worth taking a look at the major mobile operating systems that compete with Apple's iOS as seen on the iPad--where they've been so far and where they may be going.
(Warning: most of this is not pretty.)
