Apple managed to gain market share in tablets at the very time that many of its new competitors were supposed to be taking that share away, IDC said Wednesday. Having full access to data from the past spring, it found that the iPad had gained share, moving up from 65.7 percent at the start of the year to 68.3 percent. Multiple Android tablets' arrivals only led to Google's share shrinking, dropping from 34 percent in early 2011 to 26.8 percent mid-year.
