According to media
reports, the research firm Informa said in a report that Tablet computers running Google's Android software will
catch up with Apple's iPad and surpass it in 2016.
Apple's currently holds 75 percent market share which
dominance to a huge fall to 39 percent in 2015, when
Android market share will grow to 38 percent.
Analyst David McQueen said, “From 2013, as cheaper and more advanced Android tablets
enter the market, we forecast that sales will pick up considerably, eventually
surpassing iPad sales in 2016”. Samsung Electronics Galaxy Tab has been the
best-selling Android tablet so far, but also other vendors including Motorola
Mobility use it on their devices.
He also said, “We have seen a
huge explosion in the tablet market in recent years, driven primarily by the
iPad, and we estimate that the market will go from strength to strength,
growing from under 20 million tablets sold in 2010, to over 230 million in 2015".