AppleInsider Staff
Chitika Insights, the research arm of the Chitika ad network, sifted through its database of ad impressions and found that 94.64 percent of all tablet web traffic can be attributed to the iPad.
In comparison, the second place Samsung Galaxy Tab only managed 1.22 percent of the market, while the Asus Transformer Prime eked out 1.2 percent. Rounding out the top six were Motorola's Xoom, RIM's Playbook and Amazon's Kindle Fire. In last place was Barnes and Noble's Nook which took 0.54 percent of the market.
To put the numbers in perspective, the most recent research from IDC found that worldwide shipments of the iPad rose to claim 68 percent of the market in the last quarter after the Kindle Fire pushed Apple's share below 60 percent during the holiday season.
The iPad shows no signs of slowing despite increased competition from Android-based devices made by Samsung and other large electronics companies. Future players include Microsoft, which has entered the fray with a $300 million investment in B&N's Nook, as well as Amazon's rumored 10-inch offering expected to be released in the second quarter.
Chitika Insights data shows iPad dominating tablet internet traffic. | Source: Chitika
William Gallagher
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Another good indication that "shipped" and "sold" are different things...and that the iPad and the pretenders are, and do, very different things...
Pretty staggering results. I though those old PC loving, Apple hating geeks that love Android would be burning up the airwaves. I must get in touch with those I know and see if they have found the on switch to their "iPad killing Android super duper tablets with USB and all the things iPads don't haver so will fail ...".
Edit: No it's not staggering ... it's hilarious!
Pretty staggering results. I though those old PC loving, Apple hating geeks that love Android would be burning up the airwaves. I must get in touch with those I know and see if they have found the on switch to their "iPad killing Android super duper tablets with USB and all the things iPads don't haver so will fail ...".
Edit: No it's not staggering ... it's hilarious!
I fully agree with you D. Hilarious and pathetic at the same time. One cannot simply assume it's the "iSheep" people like the iHaters and Fandroids constantly fall-back on. This is the consumer recognizing that iPad does something right that the Android players just are incapable of providing.
So what happens is they throw a hissy fit which results in losers like ScamScum insulting Apple consumers.
Gotta admit, it really is funny knowing the Android community is getting b!tch-slapped, with them making it worse by being apologists for an inferior product.
Hopefully all the "experts" that claim the iPad has only a 50-60% market share will take note of this 95% traffic statistic.
That's incredible! So for every one hundred iPads out there on the internet, you're statistically also going to run into one sorry bastard who for some unfortunate reason doesn't own an iPad and ended up with a crappy knockoff instead, probably purchased during one of those desperate and pathetic firesales.
In future history books when they speak of the post-PC era, do you think that they're going to mention the fucking Xoom or the fucking Galaxytab or any other fucking tablet? I think not. People will remember the iPad, and all of the others will be long forgotten by that time.