Tablet Market: Android rules, iOS below expectations – Computer World (press release)

Analyst firm Strategy Analytics has presented data on the global tablet market for the first three months of 2014. Let us look at the most interesting conclusions.

On the global market delivered 57.6 million tablets . It is less than 20% more than in the corresponding period of the previous year. Thus, it appears that the tablet market slowed down, but still presents an enviable growth. Regarding the shares of the operating system, Android remains the leader . It was installed on almost 66% of tablets delivered in the first quarter of 2014,

Apple supplied to the market 16.4 million iPads. Thus, the shares of the company with the apple logo reached 28.4%. This result is lower than analysts’ expectations and significantly worse than in the first quarter of 2013, when Apple accounted for over 40% of the market is supplied tablets. When it comes to tablet operating system based on Windows , they delivered 3.4 million, giving Microsoft the shares in the supply of 5.8%.

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