By: Clint Boulton, eWeek
Google’s Android operating system will rise to 40 percent market share for tablet computers through the fourth quarter, thanks largely to the low-cost Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet. Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet will power Google’s Android platform to 40.3 percent media tablet market share in the fourth quarter of 2011. That’s up from up from 32.4 percent in Q3, according to IDC, which estimated the media tablet market grew 24 percent on a sequential basis to 18.1 million units. For an idea of how the tablet market has ballooned, that unit shipment total is higher than the 18 million units sold in all of 2010, according to IDC’s count. Moreover, the market researcher is seeing such strong demand in this quarter that it has boosted its worldwide shipment forecast for 2011 to 63.3 million units, up from its previous tally of 62.5 million units.
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