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Room for Growth: Microsoft Surface Only Generates 0.13% of All Tablet Web Traffic

  • 11 December 2012

Microsoft Surface vs Nexus Family TabTwo of the biggest players in the computing space – Microsoft and Google – recently launched their most ambitious efforts yet in the tablet marketplace. Microsoft’s Surface was launched on October 26th, 2012 as the flagship tablet for Windows 8, with a more powerful Pro edition debuting in December. Google released its Nexus 10 on November 13th – a larger sibling to the company’s Nexus 7 tablet, which was recently updated from its original model unveiled earlier this year. Chitika Insights conducted a study to see which tech giant’s tablet offering is emerging as the most popular.

November Tablet Market Share Update

  • 6 December 2012

Tablets_per_iPads (1)In November, much of what has defined the tablet market in the past remains the same. The iPad continues to dominate, holding over 88% of tablet Web traffic market share, maintaining their lead. In second place comes Amazon’s Kindle Fire with 4.05 impressions per 100 iPad impressions, or about 3.6% of total tablet Web traffic market share 1. November marked the introduction of the latest Nexus 7 and the new Nexus 10 tablets, helping to grow the overall Google Nexus family market share to 1.03 impressions per 100 iPad impressions, or a share of around 0.9%. The Samsung Galaxy family sits in third place behind the iPad and Kindle Fire, with 2.68 impressions per 100 iPad impressions, or around 2.4% of the overall market.