Washington: Appleās iPad managed to grab 50.4% market share selling approximately 27.8 million units worldwide.
South Korean giant Samsung manage to grab second position in the market with 18.4 percent of sales of its tablet and Amazon is at third with 9.0 percent of market share.
The tablet market grew 49.5 percent year-over-year in 3Q12, but only 6.7 percent over the second quarter of 2012, according to TheNextWeb.
Ā Apple lost 9.3 percentage points from the third quarter last year, or put another way, 15.1 percentage points when compared to its market share in the second quarter of this year (65.5 percent). Still, at 50.4 percent, the company still commanded over half of the tablet shipments last quarter.
Apple sales drop allowed Samsung to grab market share introducing its Galaxy Tab and Note 10.1. Samsung shipped 5.1 million tablets worldwide in the third quarter of 2012.
Samsung gaining 11.9 percentage points year over year.
Just like Samsung, Amazon took advantage of Appleās sales drop, Amazon which did not have a tablet in the third quarter of last year, gained 4.2 percentage points from the second quarter of 2012. Amazon announced new 7-inch and 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD tablets late in the quarter, and began shipping the new 7-inch HD version in mid-September.
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