Android 56.7% of Global Tablet Market in Q1: IDC

Apple shipped 19.5 million iPads (classic and mini), up 65.3%, and it now has roughly 40% of the tablet business. Its numbers have been trending down and are expected to continue to decline. Samsung was second up nearly 18% after shipping 8.8 million units. Asus was third with 2.7 million units (5.5%) and Amazon and its Kindle came in fourth with 1.8 million units (3.7%). Microsoft is now fifth with 900,000 (3.7%), mostly Windows 8 models. IDC figures Microsoft got off 200,000 ARM-based RT tablets down from about 900,000 shipped in Q4.

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