Halloween day, iPad tablet market share falls, Android rises in Q3, IDC said

Happy Halloween !

Apple’s iPad has 94% of tablet market in education as Tom Cook said. But according to IDC about Q3, iPad market share falls. In fact, Android tablet increases and Windows is stuggling.

The last Quarter of 2013 is coming and IDC summarized tablet market share of iPad, Android and Windows etc. iPad shipped 14.1 million units in Q3, down from 14.6 million at the same time last year. But more importantly, Apple's market share one year ago was 40.2 percent. But this year, it only stood at 29.6 percent.

Samsung alone came in second on the vendor score sheet with 20.4 percent of the global market by shipping approximately 9.7 million units during the quarter.

Nexus 7-maker ASUS grabbed 7.4 percent of the pie with 3.5 million units.

We can see from the data that Android tablets increase a lot but iPad is still on the top of the table.

This Quarter, there is no new iPad product. Maybe this is another reason for iPad market share to fall. But in Quarter 4, iPad mini and iPad air will come and let’s wait and see whether Apple could increase in the market share.

iPad and Android tablet can satisfy people’s needs, such as listening to the music, watching videos, surfing the Internet. As to me, I will prefer iReal mac blu-ray player to watch my favorite movies and videos. What about you?