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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Back ahold Apple Tablet Computer Market

APPLE back to dominate the tablet computer market in the fourth quarter of last year thanks to the iPad 1 and 2.

This is shown by the results of a study released research institute IHS iSuppli this month.

In the previous quarter, iPad is sold with the highest distribution reached 11.1 million units, far above other competitors such as the Galaxy Tab (​​1.85 million units) and Nook (750 thousand units), and Asus (801 thousand units).

Then, in the fourth quarter there is significant growth in some of the brand. Apple shot up to 15 million units, and Samsung with 2.1 million units. While the tablet computer made ​​by Barnes and Noble, Nook, doubled to almost break the 2 million units.

However, Asus has decreased by only 612 thousand units were sold in the fourth quarter. Then, get enough attention from the research results is a new player from Amazon online store, the Kindle that cost only about Rp 1 million.

Kindle series seems quite attractive, as evidenced by the distribution of the total reached 3.8 million units in the fourth quarter alone. From two quarters, the distribution iPad high compared to most others with a total of 40 million units during the last six months of last year.

While the second is occupied by Samsung with a total of 6 million units. The third sequence is the Amazon with 3.8 million units, and the fourth and the fifth is occupied by a Barnes and Noble, and the Asus 3.2 million units, 2 million units.

With high interest in the iPad, estimated iPad 3 will also hit when it was launched by Apple on March 7.