The mobile market is under the close attention of many analytical firms. Thus, experts from IDC in the latest Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker note that this year the volume of tablet shipments will increase from 144.5 million (2012) to 229.3 million, that is, by 58.7%.

A well-known expert on the Far Eastern markets, Serkan Toto, in his personal blog, cited some data from a study by the Tokyo MM Research Institute concerning the development of the tablet market in the Land of the Rising Sun.

In 2012, tablets overtook laptops in sales in the USA and Canada. In 2013, this trend will become global, according to NPD DisplaySearch. 

At the end of last week, Amazon announced that the number of downloads from its store has increased by 500% over the past year. The store would never have achieved these impressive growth rates without the release of its own budget devices.

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.

Over the past year, the Apple company has lost more than a quarter of the tablet device market in the United States. Now it has a little more than 50%. 

The share of Android in the American smartphone market has grown to 49% in the first quarter of 2012, according to experts of the advertising company Millennial Media. So Google’s operating system continues to be the “king of the mountain”; also in the US, 15 of the top 20 mobile devices run on Android 

The tablet market is storming, despite Apple’s unconditional leadership. Among the leading vendors, there is a fierce struggle for second place in the market for the supply of devices. Kindle Fire starts to lose, Samsung goes up. 

In just three months, the Amazon tablet has become the absolute leader in the American Android tablet market, snatching a share of 54%.