As predicted by IDC, this year with Android tablets will be sold for the first time more than the tablets with iOS

The popularity of cheap tablets with Android leading analysts IDC revised sales forecast for 2013. The updated estimate for the current year will be sold not 172.4 million and 190.9 million tablets. Market growth will continue in the coming years, so that by 2017, shipments will reach 350 million units, analysts say.

According to experts, every other tablet, released in the last quarter, was equipped with a screen size of less than eight inches across. Small plates attract consumers for several reasons. In particular, the tablet is easier to take and easy to hold in one hand, in addition, it is usually cheaper than a model with a larger screen.

Among the major developments in the market, analysts say increasing the share of devices running Android.For follow-up activity to the forecast, this year the proportion of such models will be at 41.5%, according to specialists IDC earlier, and 48.8%, ahead of market share of the Apple operating system iOS. Proportion of the latter is expected to shrink this year to 51% (the figure in 2012) to 46%. In the long term, will slightly increase its share of the tablet market with Windows 8. In 2012 they owned only 1% of the market, and by 2017 their share will rise to 7.4%, believe in the IDC. Share devices with Windows RT at the time did not even overcome the mark of 3%.

At the same time experts IDC adjusted forecast of sales of electronic books for a downgrade. According to new estimates, in the period from 2013 to 2016 the supply of these devices will increase by an average of 14% annually. It is noteworthy that the peak sales came in 2011, when it sold 26.4 million "book readers."Then followed by a decline in 2012 to 18.2 million in the current year, he again changed the growth, analysts IDC.

Source: IDC