According to data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker, and reported on bgr.com, while growth of tablet shipments slowed overall in the second quarter of 2013,
Android and iOS based tablet
market share has effectively flipped compared to their
positions only a year ago, with Apple's iPad experiencing a 14 % drop in sales to 17 million units, and
Android enjoying a huge surge in sales from 10.7 million to 28.2 million, an increase of around 163 %.
After
Android, Apple's iOS came to the second
position and shipped 51 million iPhone units in the fourth quarter which grabbed 17.6 percent
market share and resulted 6.7 percent year - over-year change.