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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Depending on the date when the values were estimated you may be right, but since the percentage is growing, they would be higher today. Can you give a quote for those values?
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No, I can't, sorry. As noted above, since the companies don't give figures for sales, such a report isn't out there.
However, if you Google 'android market share' you'll see that there have been a number of reports giving Android 20% to 30% of
shipments in Q2. Since there have been plenty of stories about poor sales for some high profile tablets, with only the original Samsung Tab and the Asus Transformer really taking off, we can assume that the Android sales share is some way below these.
If the Android manufacturers were really selling even close to all the tablets they were shipping they would be letting us know, the way Samsung and Asus did with their devices. We do know that Apple are selling most if not all of their iPad in a reasonable period since shipments.
On the other hand, the true Android tablet market is still young (i.e. since Honeycomb arrived) and yes, we'll see it grow, but will it surpass iPad share?
I'm a big fan of Android, but I do suspect that larger-size tablets might prove to be a fad, and that what people really want is an iPad, not a tablet.
Graham