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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (3) Follow Reuters Facebook Twitter RSS YouTube Read Japan expands nuclear evacuation, stops radiated water | 11:15am EDT Japan expands nuclear evacuation, stops radiated water | 11:15am EDT China tells U.S. to quit as human rights judge 10 Apr 2011 African peace plan for Libya founders | 11:53am EDT Japan orders extra nuclear safety step as aftershocks jolt 8:33am EDT Discussed 136 Reid says Republicans want shutdown to close clinics 113 Obama, Congress struggle to find budget deal 82 Stumbling blocks remain in budget fight Watched Ivorian forces smash magical stone Sun, Apr 10 2011 African Union leaders meet with Gaddafi Sun, Apr 10 2011 Japanese PM visits devastated city Sun, Apr 10 2011 Apple to stay ahead in tablet boom: Gartner Tweet Share this By Tarmo Virki and Miyoung Kim HELSINKI/SEOUL (Reuters) - Apple's iPad will continue to dominate the surging media tablet market for years, with Google playing catch-up, research firm Gartner said on Monday. Gartner said it expects 70 million media... Email Print Related News Google's Page makes first changes to management Fri, Apr 8 2011 Wealth management? There's an app for that Fri, Apr 8 2011 Smartphones surging, Nokia to tumble: analysts Thu, Apr 7 2011 Samsung profit tumbles to near 2-year low, chips to fuel rebound Thu, Apr 7 2011 Analysis: TI-NatSemi deal vaults analog back into limelight Wed, Apr 6 2011 Analysis & Opinion Tech wrap: Wozniak open to active role at Apple Adventures with stock market indexes, Nasdaq 100 edition Related Topics Technology » Media » iPad » Steve Jobs » A girl views a new iPad tablet computer at an Apple store during its UK launch in central London, May 28, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Luke MacGregor By Tarmo Virki and Miyoung Kim HELSINKI/SEOUL | Mon Apr 11, 2011 11:21am EDT HELSINKI/SEOUL (Reuters) - Apple's iPad will continue to dominate the surging media tablet market for years, with Google playing catch-up, research firm Gartner said on Monday. Gartner said it expects 70 million media tablets to be sold this year and 108 million in 2012, compared with just 17.6 million in 2010. Apple's share of the market will gradually decline to 47 percent in 2015 from 69 percent this year, while Google's share will rise to 39 percent from 20 percent now. Google's Android has stormed the smartphone market, where it will become the No 1 platform this year, and it has emerged as the only viable solution for tablet-makers who do not own their own operating system. Research In Motion's QNX platform, used in its soon-to-be-launched PlayBook tablet, will take the No.3 position on the market this year, with a 5.6 percent share. Gartner sees that rising to 10 percent in 2015. "It will take time and significant effort for RIM to attract developers and deliver a compelling ecosystem of applications and services around QNX to position it as a viable alternative to Apple or Android," Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi said. "It will be mainly organizations that will be interested in RIM's tablets because they either already have RIM's infrastructure deployed or have stringent security requirements," she said in a statement. DISTANT NO. 2 IN HARDWARE - SAMSUNG Apple is estimated to have sold about 1 million iPad 2's in the first weekend of its U.S. launch early last month. By comparison, its closest rival in hardware, Samsung Electronics may have sold a similar number of Galaxy Tabs in the past three months and sales growth is expected to remain weak. Slow sales of Tab, coupled with aggressive pricing plans of iPad2, is pressuring profit growth at Samsung. Samsung, the most aggressive contender to Apple with three different sizes of tablets, is still playing catch-up and analysts expect the firm, which uses Google's Android in its tablets, to increase marketing expenses to boost sales. "Their biggest challenge is user interface, how they are going to make their devices any different from those of Motorola or HTC," said Milanesi. Samsung is widely known as one of the fastest followers in the fickle electronics industry. To better compete with Apple, Samsung redesigned its new 10.1-inch tablet, first introduced in February, in just weeks to make it the thinnest in the category after Apple set the trend with the slimmer iPad 2. 1 2 Next Technology Media iPad Steve Jobs Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. Comments (3) djlowballer wrote: Google doesn’t play catchup to anybody. It doesn’t sell any tablets on it’s own and Android is distributed free of charge. Apple v Google is just spin reporting Apr 11, 2011 7:09am EDT -- Report as abuse skparekh wrote: hmm.. interesting. The tween kid I was talking to the other day on the subway said the same thing. The kid is clearly a genius. He knew before the research was made public. Apr 11, 2011 8:53am EDT -- Report as abuse sirberra wrote: I’m an Apple shareholder and as much as I wish that Apple’s iPad will hold major market share for a few years, I would figure it would be very difficult to do so. There are an awful lot of iHaters and cheapskates that are looking for the cheapest devices they can buy even if the quality is poor. Not every consumer requires the best product. Second best or third best is OK as long as the initial cost is low and they can do what they need to do with it. Those individuals should be more concerned with good customer service, though. If something goes wrong, I’d hope they can get quick repairs instead of having to junk the device. Honeycomb has yet to prove itself a favorite for tablet users since it is relatively new. By the end of this year, Google will likely work out whatever problems it has and have something decent ready for consumers. We’ll then see how low Android tablet vendors can undercut the iPad and pull in more consumers to that tablet platform. Hopefully, Apple will hold control of the tablet market for the rest of 2011 but 2012 will be a new battle. Predicting too far in advance is useless in such a young tablet market. 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