Number Of Android Tablets Will Pass The iPad By End Of 2013

(9:00 am PDT, Mar 12th)

Cheap Android tablets are stealing the iPad's market share.

Cheap Android tablets are stealing the iPad’s market share.

Even though Apple had a head start on tablets with the iPad, the number of Android tablets in use is expected to pass the iPad later this year.

According to a new report from IDC, the iPad’s marketshare will decrease in 2013 from 51%, down to 46%, while Android grows its marketshare to 49%.

Thanks to the success of smaller Android tablets, like the Google’s Nexus 7 and Amazon’s Kindle Fire, Android tablets have made some major progress with consumers last year. While Apple kept the size of the iPad the same until November, competitors offered smaller screen tablets at a cheap price to take on the iPad.

IDC claims that over 190 million tablets will ship in 2013, which is a big jump from last year’s 128.3 million mark.

“One in every two tablets shipped this quarter was below 8 inches in screen size. And in terms of shipments, we expect smaller tablets to continue growing in 2013 and beyond.”

While both Apple and Android tablets are expected to be successful, IDC doesn’t have much good news for Microsoft. Windows RT tablets are projected to only capture 3% of the market by 2017, while Windows 8 only nabs about 7% in that same time.

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  • digitaldumdum

    “Number Of Android Tablets Will Pass The iPad By End Of 2013″

    Pure, meaningless BS.

  • http://www.facebook.com/peter.stone.92560 Peter Stone

    i think the ipad mini is still the best one ! if you see the price and what you get. http://bit.ly/ZzGhaA

    • lucascott

      The minis cute and it fits nicely in my tool bag for work but I still would rather have the larger screen for drawing etc.

  • lucascott

    Or they won’t. Who knows what Apple will pull out of their hat this year. They could amaze folks with something so insanely awesome that their share could go up. Particularly if its something that makes school etc adoption even easier and more secure.

  • Alfiejr

    uh, even if true (which is debatable, since IDC is basically making guesstimates) IDC is predicting this year’s tablet sales marketshare, not counting total tablets “in use” as the article dumbly says, which would mean instead the installed base from all sales totals for several years to date – a very different number. sorry Buster, back to bonehead English class with you.

    and a 7% Surface Pro and 3% RT tablet share by 2017? a total of 10% of market for Windows tablets?? hah! this totally proves IDC is pulling guesstimates out of its butt. Surface Pro – a full desktop Windows OS tablet – will be lucky to ever get 1% of the market – ever. and RT (aka Zune 2) – won’t even exist by then.

  • http://twitter.com/gnomehole The Gnome

    Same as phones.. just a bunch of cheap devices in the hands of people that don’t use them for much and only got them because they couldn’t afford something better. Not a lot here to celebrate… it will take 10+ more years for Android to even come close to the iPad experience. Then again most Fandroids just count numbers and don’t care about usability.. you know, whatever it takes to “win”.. whatever that means.

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Buster HeineBuster Heine is Cult of Android's Social Media Editor. Hailing from Roswell, New Mexico, but now spending his days in Phoenix, Arizona, he wastes most of his time eating burritos and reading spanish romance novels.  Twitter: @bst3r.

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