Apple's tablet market share continues to fall

news article released on: 16 December, 2011

According to the latest IDC figures, Apple continues to lose tablet market share, as the industry becomes more and more competitive. Apple still has, by far, the strongest selling tablet, with the iPad outselling the next tablet by an 11:1 margin, but a large amount of new Android releases are starting to chip away at the share. Overall, tablet shipments rose 265 percent year-over-year, ...

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Brainiarc7

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Fortunately for Apple,their market share will continue to fall. The only option available to them will be to Open-source their proprietary hardware, get out of the law court scandals and scrap the iPad all-together.

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The tablet market is growing. iPad owners didn't just suddenly throw away their iPad for the touchpad or fire.

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Originally posted by plutonash:
The tablet market is growing. iPad owners didn't just suddenly throw away their iPad for the touchpad or fire.

iGadget people are making appointments with their shrink as I type this.

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Is it any wonder the IPad is declining in sales. They are an overpriced toy, and nothing more. What can do they a laptop can't? And laptops are half the price. Also Android are cheaper and offer almost all there apps FOC. I think products like Apple will have a short shelf life in the future market of penny pinching and being forced to work hard for every penny by managers and businesses.

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Another misleading title.

You're loosing me AfterDawn editorial staff.
You get more like FOX "News" every week.

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Originally posted by robertmro:
Another misleading title.

You're loosing me AfterDawn editorial staff.
You get more like FOX "News" every week.

Would love to hear your reasoning. Every title, from mine and Rich's articles are accurate. Also, it is "lose" not "loose." We understand you don't like hearing anything about Apple in a bad light, but to go to EVERY article and call it misleading without ANY backup is childish.

If Android was the market leader and they were losing share, the title would be "Android's tablet market share continues to fall." Would you be complaining then? Or would you rather the title say, in that case, "Apple gains tablet market share"?

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