| By Maureen O'Gara |
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| November 27, 2012 08:15 AM EST |
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DigiTimes Research figures worldwide tablet shipments will hit 210 million units next year, up 38.3%, pushing past notebooks for the first time.
Branded units should account for 140 million units.
It expects Google to become the second-largest tablet vendor after Apple with its Nexus widgets. It thinks Google will move 19 million of the things. It gives iPads 55.6% of the global branded market, down from 60% this year and 37.4% of the total market including white-box models.
The white-box market is supposed to make Android the biggest platform, ahead of iOS, with a combined 121 million units counting both branded and white-box gismos, up 40.2% year-over-year.
DigiTimes expects global tablet shipments to reach 320 million units in 2015.
Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025. Twitter: @MaureenOGara
