{"id":148787,"date":"2015-12-07T08:13:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T06:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=148787"},"modified":"2015-12-07T08:19:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T06:19:29","slug":"microsoft-beats-apple-in-tablet-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/148787-microsoft-beats-apple-in-tablet-sales.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft beats Apple in tablet sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book have beaten Apple\u2019s iPad in sales, as measured by the top online mass retailers in the United States for October 2015.<\/p>\n<p>A new report titled \u201c1010data Facts for Ecom Insights, January 2014 \u2013 October 2015\u201d revealed that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2015\/12\/04\/microsoft-apple-online-tablet-sales\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft overtook Apple<\/a><\/strong> in tablet sales in October, after regularly trailing the iPad maker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winbeta.org\/news\/microsoft-beats-apple-online-tablet-sales\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>According to Winbeta<\/strong><\/a>, Microsoft tablets accounted for 45% of tablet sales in October \u2013 compared to Apple\u2019s 17%.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the strong sales from Microsoft followed its announcement of the new Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book at the company&#8217;s\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/141020-microsoft-unveils-surface-pro-4.html\">October hardware event<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Microsoft<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/141020-microsoft-unveils-surface-pro-4.html\">Microsoft unveils Surface Pro 4<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/141034-microsoft-surface-book-the-ultimate-laptop.html\"><strong>Microsoft Surface Book \u2013 the ultimate laptop<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book have beaten Apple\u2019s iPad in sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":141046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[36,605,39,123,33456,33282,34415],"class_list":["post-148787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-ipad","tag-microsoft","tag-surface-book","tag-surface-pro-4","tag-tablet-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148795,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148787\/revisions\/148795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}