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Apple’s iPad had a share of 31.5 percent in the global tablet market in the first quarter of 2022. As the first mass-market tablet, the iPad has dominated the global tablet market since its release in 2010, although its market leader position has seen growing challenges in recent years, with competitors such as Samsung, Huawei and Amazon getting their shares of the pie.
Tablet
A tablet, short for tablet computer, is a mobile computing device with a relatively large touchscreen. It is a popular consumer electronic device now, with more than one hundred million of tablets selling worldwide each year and a revenue of almost 60 billion U.S. dollars in 2021. Like traditional PCs, tablets also use different operating systems to run different applications and functions. Android is the most popular tablet operating system as of the first quarter of 2021, followed by Apple’s iOS and the Windows system.
Tablet
A tablet, short for tablet computer, is a mobile computing device with a relatively large touchscreen. It is a popular consumer electronic device now, with more than one hundred million of tablets selling worldwide each year and a revenue of almost 60 billion U.S. dollars in 2021. Like traditional PCs, tablets also use different operating systems to run different applications and functions. Android is the most popular tablet operating system as of the first quarter of 2021, followed by Apple’s iOS and the Windows system.
