Over the years, Android has been gaining dominance in the tablet market sphere and 2013 was the year when it finally managed to surpass Apple’s iPad in sales volume.
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Thanks to a sheer number of low cost options, Android held 62 percent market share in 2013 according to Gartner. Meanwhile, Apple was pushed back to the second spot with a 36 percent share. Microsoft also managed to mark its present with a measly 2.1 percent share. Earlier, Gartner had predicted that Android would only be able to overtake iOS in 2015.So where did all these extra sales come from? Samsung, as you might have expected. The company saw a growth of 336 percent to ship 37 million units. Its share rose from 7.4 percent to 19.1 percent in the period, a repeat of the smartphone wars from yesteryears Apple was still first though, shipping 70 million iPads, most of which were sold in the fourth quarter. ASUS came in third thanks to the Nexus 7 and PadFone line of tablets. Amazon and Lenovo came in the fourth and fifth position respectively. Overall, 195 million tablets were shipped in the year out of which 120 million were running on Android.
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