Apple doesn’t fear Android tablet gains, but PC makers should
January 26th, 2012By Darrell Etherington, GigaOm
Compared to Android, Apple still has a dominant position in the tablet market, with a 57.6 percent share compared to Android’s 39.1 percent, according to Strategy Analytics’ most recent numbers. In terms of year over year growth, the tablet space has grown by 150 percent between the end of 2010 and 2011. …The PC market, on the other hand, contracted by around six percent in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to research firm Gartner. That’s despite 20 percent growth by Apple’s own Mac line of computers. … If the trend of growing tablet and smartphone sales continue, and PC sales continue to decline, we’ll soon be in a position where mobiles are considered a primary device by the majority of users.
