Android tablets are finally gaining ground: Study suggests iPad market share is dwindling

Apple (AAPL) sold more iPads into sales channels in the second quarter this year than it has ever sold in a single quarter. The 17 million iOS slates Apple shipped last quarter represent more units than any Android tablet has shipped in its entire lifespan, but according to a recent study, it may not have been enough to stop the iPad from losing market share to Android-powered rivals. Strategy Analytics reported last week that Apple’s share of the global tablet market ticked up to 68% from 62% in the June quarter, but research consultancy Frank N. Magid Associates’s data says otherwise. According to the firm, which recently surveyed�4,734 cell phone and smartphone owners, roughly 50% of people currently own an

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