To be fair, Apple changed their iPad release cycle between 2012 and 2013, so it's obvious people were withholding from buying iPads in this most recent quarter, as opposed to the same quarter a year ago, when no one expected the release of an iPad 4 in the fall.
Even so, the overall trend and shift from iOS to Android is unmistakable, quarter after quarter. Holiday performance will be interesting now in the upcoming quarter (the most important quarter of the year in terms of sales), especially regarding the overpriced iPad mini Retina and (what a joke) iPad 2.
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