Amazon Kindle Fire Sales Slump as Apple Boosts Tablet Share
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Amazon.com Inc. lost share in the tablet market in the first quarter as Kindle Fire sales slumped and Apple Inc.’s iPad widened its lead to 68 percent, IDC said.
Amazon’s tablet, which runs on Google Inc.’s Android operating system, saw its share tumble to about 4 percent, from 17 percent in the December period, the Framingham, Massachusetts-based research firm said today in a statement. Apple’s market share climbed from 55 percent.