10 inch android tablet sales in India, that is counted among the leading markets for sale of tablets and smartphones globally, stood at 1.90 million in 2012-13 fiscal, data provided by IT hardware industry body Manufacturers Association of Information Technology (MAIT) shows.According to MAIT's annual industry performance review, conducted by market research firm IMRB International, tablets are eating into sales of desktops, notebooks and netbooks.
The 2012-13 fiscal has been the year for the tablet PC with consumers preferring it over PC as replacement, MAIT President J V Ramamurthy said.The combination of basic functioning of a PC coupled with affordability is turning the tide in its favour, he added.Compared to the growth in tablets, PC sales are expected to rise by a modest 8 per cent to 12.11 million in the current fiscal against 11.17 million in 2012-13 fiscal, he added.
"Tablets are cannibalising the PC market and registering a phenomenal growth of 424 per cent in the second consecutive year," Ramamurthy said.Tablet sales in 2012-13 stood at 1.9 million units against 0.36 million in 2011-12.On the growth in Q88 Android Tablet sales, research firm IMRB Group Business Director Biswapriya Bhattacharjee said as an increasing number of professionals are working on the field or are travelling, tablets are a preferred devices as they are light and handy.dfdWG4fa
Tablets are here to stay and in the future more evolved versions will hit the markets, he told PTI.In 3-5 years time, we see the existence of two devices -- a computation devices and a creation device. People will be using more of the computation devices like smartphones and tablets, he added.
Bhattacharjee said that the smartphone and tablet space could merge in the future with the existence of a 5-inch screen device, which would be the mainstay.We already know that Android is, and has been for a while, the most dominant force in the smartphone market, but the tablet market is an area which has typically been a bit harder to crack. However, the latest research put together by Strategy Analytics shows that Android is also breaking away from the rest of the pack in the tablet market too.
The research found that global tablet shipments grew again over the previous year, with 51.7 million units shipped in the second quarter of the year. Last year, 36.1 million units shipped during the same quarter, so the global tablet market has grown by 43 percent over the past 12 months.
Looking specifically at each operating system, Android latest tablets accounted for 34.6 million of global tablet shipments, whereas Google’s largest rival, Apple, only accounted for 14.6 million. Percentage wise, Android tablets have grown by 87 percent over the year, whilst Apple experienced a 14 percent decline.
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