Tablet sales up 300% year on year

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; max-width: 640px; padding: 0.6em;"> <div mce_style="text-align: center;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="150" mce_src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com///Review%20images/TechRadar/Gadgets/tablet%20snaps/TTB01.ipadintro/4x3.ipadintro.main2-200-200.jpg" src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com///Review%20images/TechRadar/Gadgets/tablet%20snaps/TTB01.ipadintro/4x3.ipadintro.main2-200-200.jpg" style="border-width: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px auto 12px; max-width: 640px;" width="200" /></div> <div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px;"> Global tablet shipments have increased to over 15 million units in Q2 2011 with Apple's iPad range coming out on top.</div> <div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px;"> The figures released this week by research company Strategy Analytics found a 331 per cent increase in sales of all tablets.</div> <div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px;"> Apple shipped 6 million more tablets in the second quarter of this year than in 2010. It did however see its market share drop from a dominant 94.3 per cent, down to 61.3 per cent which suggests that competition in the market is on the rise.</div> <div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px;"> Android also proved popular. Its operating system was included on about a third (30.1 per cent) of tablets shipped this year, up from just 2.9 per cent last year.</div> <div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" mce_name="strong" mce_style="font-weight: bold;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5;">Set in stone</span></div> <div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px;"> The Blackberry Playbook, which runs the QNX operating system, managed to capture 3 per cent of the global tablet share in Q2 2011.</div> <div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px;"> Microsoft, which had 0 per cent market share in Q2 2010, now has 4.6 per cent due to releasing Windows 7 on a number of tablets this year.</div> <div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px;"> With the launch of the tablet-focused Windows 8 set for 2012 it will be interesting to see how these figures change over the next 12 months.</div> </div> </span></div>

Tablet sales up 300% year on year

Global tablet shipments have increased to over 15 million units in Q2 2011 with Apple's iPad range coming out on top. The figures...

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