The growth of Android as a mobile operating system is a well known fact. Now Android tablets are growing popular and a going by the trend, these tablets are set to pose stiff competition to iPads. According to a study conducted by ABI Research, Android tablets have taken 20% market share from iPad in the last one year. However, the report also confirms that at present, there is no tablet which is going to kill the craze and the popularity of the iPad and eats into Apple’s market share.
The major reason for this is fragmentation with Google’s Android operating system which is hampering its growth. At present Android has 3 software builds for tablets and at the same time experts feel that there should be a development for Android applications if the Android tablets have to compete with iPad. According to experts, there are several iPad competitors available in the market such as Samsung Galaxy Tab, HTC Flyer, Acer Iconia TabA100 etc.