Apple is waning... in fact both Apple and Samsung Galaxy will find it difficult to survive 2013 onwards as they will have a lot of market share swallowed by the small players offering a lot of features for small price.

There is HCL Me 7 inch tablet available at QR 550 approx (at Safari) (no Gps & Sim Slot) and a QR 1600 Apple 2 available at Jarir Samsung Galaxy Tab is also around the Apple 2 price.

If he wants to make calls, take phots and use GPS then I would recommend Apple or Galaxy Tab...for eveything else there HCL ME

I have heard a lot of blah blah about the Apple resolution... but frankly I cannot make out ANY difference at all ... maybe it would make a difference if one is reading tiny text.... but who would read tiny text? Everybody Pinch-n-Zoom right?.

About Android: (www.zdnet.com has obviously manipulated the scenario)

Apps can be downloaded from third-party sites or through online stores such as Google Play (formerly Android Market), the app store run by Google. In June 2012, there were more than 600,000 apps available for Android, and the estimated number of applications downloaded from Google Play was 20 billion.

Android became the world’s leading smartphone platform at the end of 2010.
For the first quarter of 2012, Android had a 59% smartphone market share worldwide.
At the half of 2012, there were 400 million devices activated and 1 million activations per day.
Analysts point to the advantage to Android of being a multi-channel, multi-carrier OS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#Market_share