Written by IT corporation Gartner predicts that, this year, worldwide sales of tablets will be able to reach 118.9 million. This means that the Tablet PC sales over last year increased by 98%, Apple iPad will occupy 73 million. Apple will continue to be the ruler of tablet market.
Even if Microsoft released Windows 8 operating system, still can not shake Apple’s leadership position in the Tablet market. Carolina Milanesi, Gartner research vice president, said that, PC and smartphone manufacturers continue to force the consumer Tablet market, but except iPad, very few successful manufacturers, whether it’s price, hardware or software service providers, there is a large gap between other manufacturers and Apple. this situation in 2012 may still not change, because the new iPad once again enhance the Tablet baseline.
Gartner predicts that the sales of Android tablet this year will reach 37.9 million, Microsoft’s Windows 8 Tablets only 4.9 million. Many manufacturers wait for the release of Windows 8 system, in order to seize the market by dual-platform.
By 2016, Gartner predicts Apple’s annual sales of the iPad will be able to reach 170 million, while android tablets 138 million, Microsoft is still only 43.6 million.
Frankly, iOS and android both has its own advantage, that mainly depends on the consumers, prefer which. Even the future development of these two operating system will effect the sales to a large extent.
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