Apple’s dominance in the tablet market is clear, but having been criticised for its approach to controlling China’s consumer electronics industry lately, recent stats from Analysys International will hopefully silence the critics, China Daily reports (via CNET). iPad’s market share increased to 72.6% in the second quarter, a 20% difference compared to Q1.
The massive difference between quarters, was according to Analysys, down to two factors: the new iPad only becoming available for Q2 and consequently the iPad 2 dropping down in price, attracting a whole new clientele in a new price range.
To give you some context, Lenovo’s tablet (second after the iPad) has an 8.38% share in China – Apple has roughly nine times that amount.
To think that all this is being done while facing numerous lawsuits including Proview (which has now been settled) is pretty impressive, even though I would say that more could be done from a Mac point of view in China. We’ll have to see what happens in that regard, but Apple has shown it can do it.
