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Apple continued to win out in terms of tablet market share this past quarter, according to the latest figures from ABI Research, with a 55 percent share of all shipments during the period. That’s a lead it has had since 2010 when the iPad was introduced, but it’s also the slimmest lead it’s ever had, and represents a dip of 14 percent versus the previous quarter. At this rate, Android could overtake the iPad for tablet share sometime next year, something which seemed unlikely or even impossible in 2010 and 2011.
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Apple still hasn’t dipped that low, but Android now has 44 percent of the market, owing in part to the utter failure of any other tablet-based mobile platform.
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Originally Posted by afv011
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Apple shot up like an arrow, but it is now reaching the uppermost height of it's trajectory and will soon come down.
At first there will just be a pause as Apple finds it can't go higher and then as the Apple devotees realize that they aren't buying the top product for all the money they are throwing at Apple, they will move off when their contracts expire, when they need another device, and they will find they pay less. It won't be real abrupt at the beginning, but with the device cycles we see, once it starts, in 2 years Apple will be at 25% or less and then they had better bring out another magical toy.