Android tablets increased 247% in the space of a year - TeK.sapo

The market for tablets has increased from quarter to quarter but this trend has long been provided by consultants. Within this growth the focus is on the Android operating system that between the first quarter of this year and the same period in 2012 grew 247.5%.

In all, 27.8 million tablets shipped with the operating system Google against 19.5 million iPad equipped with iOS. Despite the growth of 65.3% recorded between 2012 and the first quarter of this year, the software brand apple fell from a market share of 58.1% to 39.6%.

The data analysis firm IDC reveal that the operating system the fastest growing segment of the tablets was Windows – to evolve positively 700% within one year. The number turns out to not be a problem to Apple-Google duopoly since the devices equipped with the Microsoft operating system correspond to a shipment of 1.6 million units for retail.

The consultancy also estimates the Surface RT has sold 900,000 units i n the first three months of the year, a value that corresponds to 0.4% of the 49.2 million tablets sold this period. In a global perspective, the tablet market grew 142.9% compared with January and March 2012.

But if Apple lost the lead for Google in the area of ??mobile operating systems, the technology led by Tim Cook remains far off the mark with better sales in the segment of tablets.

The 19.5 million iPad shipped are more than double the 8.8 million tablets from Samsung or 2.7 million devices from Asus – and where the largest part should be connected to the marketing of the Nexus 7.

Stand for Amazon who manages the fourth place among the brands that most tablets have sold about 1.8 million Kindle Fire. The company of Jeff Bezos, as well as the other brands mentioned above, could all increase the market share compared to the first quarter of 2012.

Tablets, a fad that will pass
The BlackBerry does not appear in the top manufacturers with over tablets shipped nor has the operating system software between more market share. But this does not preclude the Canadian technology to share their vision on this market.

“In five years I do not think there will be reasons to have a tablet,” said the CEO of BlackBerry, Thorsten Heins, told Bloomberg. The CEO believes that devices with large screens will take place in the workplace but that the current equipment will lose glow and profit margin in the coming years, which will make the market less attractive even for the very fabicantes.

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