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Apple’s iPad dominates tablet market with record-breaking quarter, according to IDC

Posted in: Android, iOS, Tablets 14 hours ago by Peter While Android was the undisputed ruler in the smartphone world, it’s a different story when it comes to tablets – Apple’s iPad had a record quarter and accounted for 68.2% of tablet shipments during Q2 of this year. For comparison, the biggest maker of Android tablets is Samsung and their share is just 9.6%. Going back to Apple for a moment, they beat their record Q4 2011 quarter despite shipments in mature markets losing some of their momentum, according to IDC. The other markets picked up the slack. Samsung’s shipments grew by 117.6% and solidified its second place, even though they’ve got a long, long way to go before catching up with Apple. Amazon and their single Kindle Fire tablet are doing pretty good for themselves too, snatching a 5% share of the market – this is especially impressive because the Kindle Fire was only introduced in Q4 of last year. (Preliminary) (Unit Shipments are in thousands) ASUS more than doubled the...