IMS Research Forecasts Android Expansion In Marketplace Share

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Dec 7, 2010 5:17 PM, By Debra Kaufman

According to IMS Research , more than 15 suppliers, inclusive Acer , Cisco , Dell , Motorola , OpenPeak , Samsung and Viewsonic , will be selling Android-based tablets by mid-2011. The investigate definite predicts that Android's marketplace share will blossom from 15.2 percent in 2011 to 28.4 percent in 2015.

In its "Impact of Connected Tablets on the CE Market - 2010 Interim Report," IMS Research author/principal researcher Anna Hunt remarkable that the Samsung's Milky Way Tab inscription is slated to rapidly speed up Google Android's illustration in the inscription market.

IMS Research serve forecasts that in 2011, 7.8 percent of tablets shipping worldwide, that will blossom to 19.3 percent in 2015, will not run on Apple iOS, Android or Windows; this portion of the marketplace will be dominated by RIM's QNX-based OS and HP's webOS platform. HP and Viewsonic outline to offer models running not similar OS platforms; Viewsonic will let go both a 7in Android inscription and a 10.1in dual-boot Android/Windows 7 tablet.