Tablet wars: iPad restricts Android tablet market share to five per cent

Apple destroys competition with almost three-quarters of the market.
Tomorrow Apple will hold a conference for what is expected to be theunveiling of the iPad 3, but in the meantime, research from Forrester shows the popularity of Apple's tablet, which dominates with a 73 per cent share of the tablet market.
While Android-powered tablets are the second most used after iOS, no Android tablet maker has more than a five per cent share against the iPad with Samsung on five per cent, Motorola on four per cent and Acer on three per cent.
Unless, of course, you include the now defunct HP TouchPad, which was reduced to $99 on its way out, helping it to secure six per cent of the market.
However, the data was found in September 2011, before Amazon and Barnes & Noble had released their respective Android-powered Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet (both launched in November). This is a significant point to highlight, given that the Kindle Fire currently occupies the number two tablet spot after selling a reported four million devices.
In a telephone interview, Sarah Rotman Epps, analyst, Forrester, said: "Tablets are about services. That is where Amazon has succeeded where others have failed."

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