Study: declining share " IPad " for the benefit of tablets "Android " to the first quarter of 2014

A recent study of the market tablet computers , during the first quarter of this year , for the control of devices operating system "Android " on the largest share of the market.

The study , carried out by the firm Strategy Analytics, the number of sales of tablet computers operating system "Android " reached 37.9 million units during the first three months of 2014 , with a share of 65.8 % of the total market .

The study added that tablet computing operating system "Android " has achieved a remarkable increase in sales on an annual basis , where sales in the first quarter of 2013 did not exceed 25.6 million units only .

In contrast, sales fell computers " iPad " tablet on an annual basis , and after that sold the "Apple" about 16.4 million computers during the period from the beginning of January to the end of March , as it sold in the same period last year and 19.5 million units.

The computers " IPad " controlled during the first quarter of last year to about 40 % of the total market tablet computers , but its share fell to 28.4 percent by the end of the first three months of 2014 .

This , the study pointed to sales of tablet computers operating system "Windows" , which reached the end of the first three months of this year, 3.4 million units, compared to the sale of 2.8 million units during the same period in 2013.

And officials expect to see the Strategy Analytics Tablet PCs sales operating system "Windows" increase during 2014 driven strategy that " Microsoft's " new licensing system operated .

The " Microsoft " had decided to grant manufacturers of smart devices with screens measuring 9 inches smaller than the free license to use the operating system "Windows" in its hers .