{"id":231561,"date":"2017-10-03T16:18:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T14:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=231561"},"modified":"2017-10-03T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T14:22:39","slug":"windows-may-overtake-android-in-tablet-market-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/231561-windows-may-overtake-android-in-tablet-market-study.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows may overtake Android in tablet market &#8211; Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telsyte.com.au\/announcements\/2017\/10\/3\/android-tablet-sales-tumble-as-more-vendors-bet-on-windows-touchscreens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>A study<\/strong><\/a> by\u00a0Telsyte has revealed that Windows tablet sales are catching up to Android tablets.<\/p>\n<p>The study focused on the Australian market, and found that\u00a0Microsoft\u2019s OS could overtake Android in the tablet market before the end of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>As shown below, Windows tablets made up 22% of the Australian tablet market in H1 2017, behind Android on 29% and Apple&#8217;s iOS on 49%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Android tablet sales declined by 29% compared to the first half of 2016, with many manufactures holding back the release of new Android tablets,&#8221; stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Windows-based devices from a range of manufacturers have clearly benefited from the merging of PC and tablet features.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tablet-Graph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-231565\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tablet-Graph.jpg\" alt=\"Tablet Graph\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tablet-Graph.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tablet-Graph-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tablet-Graph-595x400.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/231349-apple-releases-kernel-source-code-for-mobile-chips.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple releases kernel source code for mobile chips<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study by\u00a0Telsyte has revealed that Windows tablet sales are catching up to Android tablets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":110808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,16],"tags":[397,2432,807],"class_list":["post-231561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-software","tag-android","tag-tablet","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231561"}],"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=231561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231575,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231561\/revisions\/231575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}