--FILE - Ein Kunde hat ein neues iPad Tablet-PC von Apple in einem Geschäft in Peking, China, 14. Juni 2013. Apple hat verloren mehr als 40 Prozent seines Anteils
--FILE--A customer holds a new iPad tablet PC of Apple at a store in Beijing, China, 14 June 2013. Apple has lost more than 40 percent of its share of the Chinese tablet market over the past year to cheaper rivals led by Samsung Electronics, as devices based on Googles Android and other operating systems rapidly overtake the US companys gadgets. In the second quarter, Apple shipped 1.48m iPads in China, 28 percent of the tablets shipped in that market, according to research firm IDC. This was down from a 49 per cent market share a year ago. Samsung shipped 571, 000, or 11 per cent of the total, in the second quarter of this year. The data echo statistics showing Apple is losing ground in the tablet market worldwide. Apples global tablet market share dropped to 32.4 per cent in the second quarter from 60.3 per cent a year earlier, IDC said earlier in August. While iPad shipments globally dropped 14.1 per cent year-on-year in the June quarter, shipments in China continued to grow but not as fast as competitors, rising 28 per cent compared with the same period last year, IDC said.
