∞ Survey: iPad still dominant, but Android tablets grab 22 percent marketshare

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According to a report posted Monday by Strategy Analytics, Android-based devices grabbed 22 percent of the tablet market for the fourth quarter of 2010. Apple’s iPad is well out in first place with 77 percent of the market, but the firm expects Android devices to further erode the iPad’s lead.

[ad#Google Adsense 300x250 in story]Strategy Analytics claims that the Samsung Galaxy Tab is “the main driver” of Android-based devices’ success in the tablet marketplace. Samsung coordinated the release of the seven-inch Tab in dozens of countries towards the end of the year.

Strategy Analytics sees continued growth for Android-based tablets in 2011 with the release of Motorola’s Xoom and other high-profile devices. The company expects that as more Android devices hit the market, media developers in the United States and elsewhere will increasingly support the devices with content.


  • Anonymous

    Until all the Apple haters are sated. And then iPad will continue to grow even more. They kept saying the same thing about iPods since 2001. This is no different, I’m willing to bet.

    • Anonymous

      “Until all the Apple haters are sated”

      They will always be some. From my perspective the iPad competitors need to jump several steps ahead of Apple. From what I see they mostly deliver devices on par with current Apple products. Then Apple leaps way ahead with a new model or new OS.

  • Tut

    If you are the first one to sell an item, you have by definition 100% of the market.
    As soon as anybody else joins in the market share will fall. Duh!

    The only question is whether or not Apple can sell all it produces. It can.

    • Danielsw

      Exactly.

      A fall from 100% only SEEMS precipitous. But then it remains for the competition to somehow BEST the iPad which is about to metamorphose into version 2. So then the competition has to go back to the drawing board. So what do they do with their version 1′s?

  • David

    Are these actual sales of android tablets?? Samsung’s CEO just spoke about “sales” into the channel but sales to actual consumers were much lower…..

  • Anonymous

    They are not sales, rather they are shipments.
    During a conference call, pressed by an analyst at an investment bank, Samsung executive Lee Young-hee, acknowledged that sales to consumers were “quite small,” though she didn’t give a specific number.
    The Tab is a POS folks and Samsung has lied about sales.
    .
    http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/31/samsung-galaxy-tab-sales-actually-quite-small/?mod=rss_WSJBlog

  • Octavio

    Many websites are publishing this. But it seems it is completely misleading. Samsung has shipped 2M Galaxy Tabs, but has not actually sold them, these were shipped to the reselling channels, ISP, cell phone companies, etc. In fact the number of Galaxy Tabs in the hands of end users is very low, so low that Samsung refused to give the number.
    Read this :
    http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/31/samsung-galaxy-tab-sales-actually-quite-small/?mod=rss_WSJBlog&mod=