{"id":4700,"date":"2012-01-26T09:08:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T09:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=4700"},"modified":"2012-01-26T09:09:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T09:09:52","slug":"android-tablets-closing-in-on-ipad-researcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/4700\/android-tablets-closing-in-on-ipad-researcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Android tablets closing in on iPad: researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tablet computers using Google<\/a>‘s Android<\/a> software narrowed the lead of Apple<\/a>‘s iPad on the global market in the fourth quarter, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Global tablet shipments reached an all-time high of 26.8 million units in the fourth quarter, growing 2-1\/2 fold from 10.7 million a year earlier, the research firm said.<\/p>\n

“Dozens of Android models distributed across multiple countries by numerous brands such as Amazon<\/a>, Samsung<\/a>, Asus and others have been driving volumes,” analyst Neil Mawston said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Android’s market share rose to 39 percent from 29 percent a year earlier, while Apple’s share slipped to 58 percent from 68 percent a year before.<\/p>\n

The tablet computer market grew 260 percent last year to 66.9 million units as consumers are increasingly buying tablets in preference to netbooks and even entry-level notebooks or desktops.<\/p>\n

Strategy Analytics said Microsoft<\/a> had a 1 percent share of the global tablet market last quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tablet computers using Google’s Android software narrowed the lead of Apple’s iPad on the global market in the fourth quarter, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,685,51,53,1111],"class_list":["post-4700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-google","tag-tablet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4702,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700\/revisions\/4702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}