Android and Samsung Electronics were the big winners in the tablet market last year, as sales grew by 68 percent, according to market research company Gartner.
Worldwide sales of tablets to end users totalled 195.4 million units, fuelled by sales of low-end, smaller screen devices, and purchases by first time buyers, the company said Monday.
Android has become the biggest tablet operating system with 62 per cent of the market. In 2012, Google's OS trailed Apple's iOS by a margin of about 8 million tablets, but by the end of last year had turned that into a 50 million-unit lead.
The Android camp led by Samsung sold almost 121 million tablets, for a 61.9 percent share, compared to 53.3 million units and a 45.8 percent share in 2012. Apple's tablet sales increased from 61.5 to 70.4 million units, but because the overall market grew faster, the company's share dropped from 52.8 percent to 36 percent.
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