While the
Android tablets continue to roll in, Apple can still lay claim to the lion's share of the tablet
market according to IDC's latest report. Its research suggests that
the iPad holds onto 61.5 percent of the worldwide market
share, down from 63.3 percent last quarter. Android devices in total
also saw a slight contraction, down from 33.2 percent to 32.4 percent.
This is partly explained by the HP TouchPad's final hurrah, which
rocketed the ill-fated webOS tablet up to third place with a 5 percent
of share of tablet sales and an estimated 903,354 devices sold. Samsung
maintained its Honeycomb tablet
crown, nabbing 5.6 percent of all tablet sales. The Korean
manufacturer
was closely tailed by Barnes and Noble's Nook Color with 4.5 percent
and Asus, arriving at fifth place with a four percent share. Tablets in
total sold less than the analysts had predicted, although E-readers
outperformed estimates, with 6.5 million E-readers sold in the third
quarter, up 165.9 percent from last year.
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