Android-based tablet sales increased more than threefold during the fourth quarter of 2011. But Apple still dominates, although its market share fell.
The global tablet shipments achieve 26.8 million units during the fourth quarter in 2011, an increase of 150% from 10.7 million during the same period in 2010.
Consumers increasingly prefer tablets rather than netbooks and even entry-level notebookor desktop, Strategy Analytics said.
Android pick up momentum, and together support the operating system vendors shipped 10.5 million units, compared to 3.1 million last years. That gives Android 39.1% share of the global tablet shipments, compared with 29% a year earlier. But Apple‘s share dropped from 68.2% to 57.6%.
Apples shrugs off the threat of a much-hyped from the entry-level models based on Android. It is inevitable that Apple lost market share as more vendors enter the tablet space, according to Neil Mawston, executive director at Strategy Analytics. But the tablet business is still growing at healthy levels, he said.
Apple shipped 15.4 million tablets during the fourth quarter, up from 7.3 million in the same period last year.
Microsoft is only 1.5% of tablets taken off the market during the last three months of 2011. The launch of Windows 8 later this year could not come fast enough for Microsoft, enables hardware partners to begin to compete more effectively, according to Strategy Analytics.
66.9 million tablets were shipped during 2011, up 260% from 18.6 million in 2010.
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