Apple's share of tablets drops in Q3APPLE share of the market for tablet computers fell to 50 per cent in the third quarter as the iPad faced more competition from Android devices such as Samsung Galaxy tablets and Google Timberland Outlet
Nexus 7.Apple still had a solid lead and shipped more iPads worldwide than a year earlier, according to Monday's study by IDC.Apple said on Monday that it sold three million iPads Womens Timberland 14 Inch Boots
of all kinds through the weekend, double the 1.5 million iPads sold in the first three days after Apple launched the third-generation iPad in March and cut the price of the iPad 2.However, the company will face competition from new devices from Amazon, Google and others over the next few weeks.In the July-September period, Timberland 6 Inch Boots
Apple shipped 14 million devices, up 26 per cent from 11 million a year ago.However, its market share fell from 60 per cent in the third quarter of 2011 as the overall tablet market grew by 50 per cent to nearly 28 million.Samsung's market share grew to 18 per cent, from about 7 per cent, as it more than quadrupled the number of tablets shipped to 5.1 million. The quarter saw the release of the Galaxy Note 10