Forecast: iPad and Other Tablet Sales to Approach 120 Million This Year

By Karla Robinson
April 12, 2012

Research firm Gartner forecasts that tablet sales will hit 119 million in 2012, nearly doubling last year’s 60 million tablets across the world.
“Of those 119 million tablets, approximately 73 million, or 61 percent, will be iPads, Gartner predicts. The researcher thinks that the Apple device will continue to dominate the tablet market through 2016, despite increased competition from the likes of Amazon and Microsoft,” Mashable reports.
In 2012, Android tablet sales will only be about half of the iPad sales but the OS will catch up by 2016 when an estimated 137.6 million Android tablets will be sold, only slightly behind the forecasted 169.6 million iPads.
The study also found that enterprise will be a big sector for tablets, taking up 35 percent of all tablet sales in 2015.

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