The iPad no longer dominates the “tablet” market, Gartner announced yesterday. Android has captured this mobile device market as well.

Gartner analysts expect tablet shipments to reach 184 million by the end of this year.

Last Thursday, Gartner introduced the report, according to which this year the number of downloads from mobile markets will amount to 102 billion. We offer you a short story about how we tried to understand what Gartner analysts meant by these figures.

Gartner analysts have published a very controversial report on the state of the mobile app market. What and how, read in our material.

According to analysts from Gartner, global sales of smartphones to end users in the first quarter of 2013 reached 210 million units, which is 34.8% higher than in the same period last year (147 million) and 44% higher than in the fourth quarter of 2012.

Gartner has presented its forecast for the development of the mobile device market for 2017. These data go against the figures prepared by IDC specialists.

Mobile advertising revenue in the world in 2012 amounted to almost $10 billion, according to Gartner in its latest report. Moreover, according to its analysts, in four years it will reach almost $25 billion.

The successful sales of the Nexus 7 have become a catalyst for the rapid growth of Asus in the tablet market. Already next year, the company for the supply of “tablets” plans to overtake all Android competitors.

According to analysts from Gartner, in 2013 Lenovo will become the largest smartphone manufacturer in China. 

169 million smartphones were sold worldwide in the third quarter, of which 122 million were devices based on the Android platform, Gartner experts estimate. 

By the end of this year, 70% of PC sales will be on mobile devices, according to Gartner. This is largely due to the increasing interest in them from the business environment.

Gartner analysts are confident that in four years Android will become the most popular operating system in general, and not only among its mobile competitors. 

By the end of this year, about 45.6 billion applications will be downloaded worldwide, Gartner estimates. Moreover, the absolute majority of them will be distributed either under the free-to-play scheme or freemium.

The analytical company Gartner has published an overview of the tablet operating systems market for 2011-2012.