There's no mistaking the numbers in the chart above, which doesn't even include Amazon tablet shipments since no data is available —
Android tablet shipments are growing rapidly while the iPad's share of the global market is declining.
Of course Strategy Analytics, the firm behind the report, was indeed comparing apples to apples, of course, using
Android tablet shipments as well as iPad shipments in its report.
Whether or not people are really using Android tablets, it has become clear that
Android tablet shipments are absolutely exploding as Apple's overall iPad shipments decline.
Not exact matches
Today, the
android OS dominates market share and
shipments of smartphones whereas iPad / iOS still retains the lead for install base of
tablet devices.»
Even still, the
tablet market declined 7 % year - on - year in Q1 2018 as Android and Windows tablet and 2 - in - 1 shipments weighed the market down, according to the new «Preliminary Global Tablet Shipments and Market Share: Q1 2018» report from Strategy Analytics» newly expanded Connected Computing Devices (CCD) se
tablet market declined 7 % year - on - year in Q1 2018 as
Android and Windows
tablet and 2 - in - 1 shipments weighed the market down, according to the new «Preliminary Global Tablet Shipments and Market Share: Q1 2018» report from Strategy Analytics» newly expanded Connected Computing Devices (CCD) se
tablet and 2 - in - 1
shipments weighed the market down, according to the new «Preliminary Global Tablet Shipments and Market Share: Q1 2018» report from Strategy Analytics» newly expanded Connected Computing Devices (CCD)
shipments weighed the market down, according to the new «Preliminary Global
Tablet Shipments and Market Share: Q1 2018» report from Strategy Analytics» newly expanded Connected Computing Devices (CCD) se
Tablet Shipments and Market Share: Q1 2018» report from Strategy Analytics» newly expanded Connected Computing Devices (CCD)
Shipments and Market Share: Q1 2018» report from Strategy Analytics» newly expanded Connected Computing Devices (CCD) service.
IDC predicted that
shipments of
Android tablets may overtake those of the iPad in 2013.
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
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
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
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 %.
According to Digitimes,
Android and Windows make up 31 and 8 percent of the total
tablet shipment.
The
Android camp had a 39.1 percent share of global
tablet shipments, compared to 29 percent a year earlier.
The typically sober analysts over at Gartner were going ballistic with their
shipment predictions for the iPad, and a flurry of soon - to - be-launched
Android tablets.
Sony has put the brakes on
shipments of its
Android - based Xperia
tablets, the company admitted today, after the
Android slab sprung a leak.
So it's fair to say that
Android - powered
tablets passing iPad
shipments at some point was all but inevitable, with multiple companies attacking the iPad maker.
Firstly in
shipments: ABI notes that
Android - powered
tablets surpassed iOS - based slates during Q2 for the first time.
Lenovo's
tablet shipments were down 13.8 YoY due to slowing demand for
Android slate
tablets, but Huawei has posted 82.2 % increase in
tablet shipments year - on - year.
Android tablets captured 22 percent of global
shipments in the three months to Dec. 31, a tenfold jump from a year earlier, according to Boston - based Strategy Analytics.
«The growth in cheaply made, inexpensive
Android tablets is a key piece of the growing imbalance between
shipments and usage measurements in the
tablet world,» Alexander said.
In 2013, Samsung expects to ship 40 million
Android tablets which would double the company's 2012
shipments.
«The surge in non-iPad
shipments in the fourth quarter was achieved at considerable financial cost, with sharp price reductions across most of the competing
Android tablets and actual product giveaways from a number of vendors as part of promotional efforts for other electronic products,» Alexander noted.
The projections seen by The Verge had
Android tablets claiming 10 million
shipments out of an estimated 30 million in 2011, or 33 percent share.
Gartner this week estimated
tablet shipments to total 118.9 million this year, with Apple's iPad dominating the market, and Amazon and Samsung being the top
Android tablet vendors.
03 May 2012 FRAMINGHAM, Mass., May 3, 2012 — A steep drop in
shipments of
Android - based
tablets offset a strong quarter from Apple and caused the media
tablet market to miss projections for the first quarter of 2012 (1Q12), according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Media Tablet and eReader Tr
tablet market to miss projections for the first quarter of 2012 (1Q12), according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Media
Tablet and eReader Tr
Tablet and eReader Tracker.
Neil Mawston, Director at Strategy Analytics, added, «
Android captured 27 percent share of global
tablet shipments in Q3 2011, rising twelve-fold from 2 percent a year earlier.
Apple is also being undercut on price by a number of 7 - inch
Android tablets and KGI Securities analyst Ming - Chi Kuo believes that as a result, combined
shipments of Apple's iPad and iPad mini will decline by between 10 % and 15 % in Q2 2013.