There are many alternative tablet brands.įor ereaders, this guide pits Amazon's Kindle ereader against its nearest competitor, Kobo. We are calling a boycott of Amazon over its tax avoidance and would urge you not to buy either of their products, opting instead for one of our Recommended brands above. This guide is one of the guides in our alternatives to Amazon series.Īmazon produce both a Fire tablet and the eponymous ereader, the Kindle. Baby boomers are more likely to own a tablet and prefer to use them at home over a smartphone.ĭespite the efforts from manufacturers to pitch tablets as a potential laptop replacement, they remain secondary items to either a traditional computer or a phone and one that is predominantly used for media consumption. Half of tablet owners prefer to use their smartphone at home, rising to 72% of Millennials. While 39% of all tablet owners have an Apple iPad, it increases to 44% for Younger Millennials and 54% for Generation Z. As well as ethical issues arising from manufacture, this article will also consider the impact that tablets have on children’s development and discuss the shifting landscape of the tablet market. The ethical dilemmas in the tablets market mirror those of mobile phones and laptops, with supply chains often riddled with conflict minerals, dangerous toxic chemicals and poor labour standards. After which we look at two e-reader brands in the UK, comparing Amazon to its nearest competitor, Kobo.
It covers 15 of the largest tablet companies in the UK, focusing on the traditional ‘slate’ tablets that are sold without a detachable keyboard but there are a couple of TCO certified models that come with detachable keyboards. Will consumers have to wait as long before an ethically conscious tablet is produced? If you count Apple’s iPad as the first tablet, launched in 2010, we’d be waiting until 2028 for a Fair-tablet or Fair-ereader!įor now, consumers are stuck trying to distinguish between a number of ethically compromised brands, a task that this guide will help you with. The first smartphone, IBM’s ‘Simon’, was launched in 1994 and it took 18 years before the Fairphone gave ethical consumers an ethical option.
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