Sorting out the players in tablet market

With Christmas right around the corner, I hear a lot of folks talking about purchasing a tablet for their loved ones. But a quick online search of tablets or a stroll in the electronics department of your favorite block-and-mortar and you will see that things were a lot easier way back in 2010 — you needed oodles of cash and if you had that, you had a choice between the Apple iPad and the Motorola Xoom. Fast-forward to today and the tablet landscape is littered with choices.

Where there were once two camps from which to select a tablet, there are…