“In this analysis iPad accounts for almost 88% of tablet web traffic, Android for about 11% and the others trail far behind. Out of these operating systems, the only one that exists purely on tablets is iOS, but we strongly suspect that this is a good reflection of reality. For example, there are some tablets running Windows 7 in the market, as well as some netbooks that run Android, so there’s a real mix. Based on this it would seem that comScore’s finding that iPad accounts for 95.5% of tablet web traffic is a bit optimistic. But its number is for the U.S. market only and perhaps the very fact that we’ve reported StatCounter’s global figures explains at least some of the difference.” #now_ipad - × × ×

“Some of the market share numbers for iPad we could find include: 83% of U.S. tablet sales. 68.3% of worldwide media tablet shipments. 73% of worldwide sales of media tablets to end users. 61% of global tablet shipments. 80% of tablet shipments in North America. In October Google mobile chief Andy Rubin said that there are “a little more than six million Android tablets out there running Google’s services,” meaning they run Google’s apps and the Android Market. Compare that with the total number of iPads sold, as reported by Apple, close to 40 million, and iPad has a market share of 85%. If we disregard the obvious issues of how comparable these numbers really are for the sake of this exercise, iPad’s average market share is 75% and the median is 80%.” - × × ×