Apple’s iPad to fall behind Android as tablet war grows

Shipments of tablets running Google Inc’s Android will overtake the iPad this year for the first time, research house IDC has predicted, as Apple cedes more mobile market share to hard-charging rivals around the globe.

A growing variety of smaller and cheaper Android tablets from Google to Amazon.com will catch on this year with more consumers and chip away at Apple’s dominance since the first iPad launched in 2010, International Data Corp said.

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