I got them to try some of the headmounted voice command software demos in the headset, talk about my $ 199 Archos 70b Internet Tablet with Honeycomb (and ICS later) which Archos claims to have nearly the third largest
worldwide tablet market share with their 2 million Android tablets sold in 2011 (Sergey Brin knows Archos perfectly well it seems, Archos has been making Android tablets for over 2 years but has only gotten fully Google certified since using Honeycomb on their G9 tablet generation released 3 months ago).
In smartphones they did, which meant it was only a matter of time before they passed past Apple in
worldwide tablet market share, just like they did in smartphones.
(ABI Research assigns to Apple 51 % of
worldwide tablet market share as of December 2013.)
Not exact matches
Apple on Tuesday reported that it sold 9.1 million iPads during the first quarter of 2018, giving the company its highest
share of the
worldwide tablet market during that quarter in four years, according to IDC.
Market share is increasing for Android overall, with
tablet efforts moving them from 46 % to 62 %
worldwide.
IDC said Apple had a 68.3 percent
share of the
worldwide tablet market in the second quarter, up from 65.7 percent the previous quarter.
However, Android
tablets too hasn't exactly been push - overs as they have improved their
market share by 8.2 percent during the first quarter of 2011, bringing its
worldwide share of the
tablet segment to 34 percent.
Its first Kindle Fire
tablet in 2011 was by no means a home run, but the versions that followed proved substantially better, even if Amazon's
share of the
worldwide tablet market remains a miniscule.4 %, according to IDC.
Apple's iPad led the charge as total
worldwide tablet shipments hit a record 52.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to IDC's preliminary data from its Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker, but its market share continued to slide due to competition from Sa
tablet shipments hit a record 52.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to IDC's preliminary data from its
Worldwide Quarterly
Tablet Tracker, but its market share continued to slide due to competition from Sa
Tablet Tracker, but its
market share continued to slide due to competition from Samsung.
IDC reports that Samsung's
tablets took second place in
market share worldwide, and Amazon is apparently now in third with only about 4 percent of
market share.
Microsoft Windows 7, RIM's Playbook, and HP webOS
tablets will likely comprise the lion's
share of the remaining 17 percent of the
worldwide tablet market at that time.
Apple increased its dominance in the media
tablet market with the iPad's
worldwide share rising to nearly 70 % in the second quarter, according to research firm IHS iSuppli — although Apple will face new competition from Microsoft and Google in the back half of 2012.
The Apple iPad has plenty of company in the
tablet marketplace these days, but during the third quarter of 2010, the
tablet that reinvigorated the form factor nonetheless still held 93 percent of the
worldwide market share, according to ABI Research.
IDC is the firm with the figures and they've shown that Samsung Electronics was the largest
tablet maker
worldwide, with a 19 %
market share in Q1 2017, followed by Foxconn, with 16 % and Compal a 13 %.
According to IDC, Amazon had about a five percent
share of the
worldwide tablet market in Q2 2012, compared to 68 percent for Apple.
Based on the
worldwide tablet market data during first quarter sales released by IDC, Apple's unrivalled
market share is crowned the top spot at 39.6 %.
Google's Android OS is forecast to increase its
worldwide share of the media
tablet market from 20 percent in 2011 to 39 percent in 2015.
While the iPad has cornered 90 percent or so of the
market to date, IMS Research expects Android
tablets will make up 15 percent of the
worldwide market in 2011, nibbling at Apple's iPad
share similar to the way Android smartphones gained on Apple's popular iPhone.
For example, Hewlett - Packard, which holds top billing in
worldwide PC
market share, is said to be working on various
tablets, each running a different operating system.
The latest numbers from IHS show that Samsung's
share of the
worldwide tablet market has risen to around 22 %, which still puts it behind Apple in overall
market share, although that will change in a hurry if the company can really make good on its vow to ship 100 million Galaxy
tablets this year.
Amongst the vendors that have a less than 6 percent
share of the
worldwide tablet market, Lenovo did particularly well in 2013 with
tablet sales growing 198 percent.
Android - based
tablets have wrested away 20 percent of
worldwide market share from the Apple iPad in the past 12 months, according to ABI Research.
Samsung isn't resting on its laurels in 2014, but now seem even more poised than in previous years in its effort to increase Samsung
market share in the
worldwide tablet computer
market.
The
tablet market represents $ 300 million in FY13 revenue and the company has a 67 %
share worldwide.
It's likely that this, coupled with the lower cost and wider range of Android - based
tablets (which accounted for 65 percent of all
tablets sold
worldwide in Q2 2016), could see the company struggle to maintain its
share of the
market in the coming year.
The one number that matters is iOS
market share, which hovers around 23 percent of phones and
tablets worldwide.