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If you're looking for a way to say "iOS is still winning", then yes, there's vastly more web traffic generated by iOS than by android. but that's beside the point. Android tablets are mainstream now. John Gruber's old article [1] "there is no tablet market, there's only an iPad market" is obviously no longer true.

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It depends on what you mean by a ‘tablet market’. On the hardware side, sure, there are plenty of companies that sell Android tablets (albeit often at a loss). On the software side however, I don’t think there’s a tablet market, there’s just an iPad market. Owners of Android tablets don’t buy apps and many of those tablets don’t run recent versions of Android which makes it very hard to create the same quality apps that are available for iPad.

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