Gartner: Apple will dominate tablet space for years, Android won’t drink its milkshake until after 2015

The inundation of tablets upon these very pages from daily should offer you a concept that manufacturers see this as a golden opportunity to seize a major chunk of a fledgling market. In keeping with Gartner , though, the prospects are rather less rosy — for the subsequent five years, anyway. Analyst estimates indicate that the tablet market will boom over the following five years, from 17,610 units last year to 294,093 in 2015. No, not 294,092. Exactly 294,093. Apple would be the dominant force, its market share not dropping below 50 percent until the terminal year of this study. Android will soak up the lion share of any other half, with the rest dredges shared by MeeGo, WebOS, and QNX. The latter, which powers RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook , is scheduled to have a ten percent share. That’ll be the nearest thing to a threat that Google and Apple will face — in the event you believe any of this.

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