Amazon Kindle Fire Dominates Samsung Galaxy Tablets for 2012
The Amazon Kindle Fire tablet has solidified its place in the Android powered tablet market by claiming 36 percent of it in just two months.
In a new survey conducted by Flurry Analytics it was found that Samsung's Galaxy Tabs lost roughly half of their share to the Kindle Fire since it was released in Nov. Amazon's device has jumped from just three percent in its first month to 36 percent in Jan.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab accounted for 36 percent as well, dropping from 63 percent back in Nov. Combined, both of these tablet lines account for over half of all Android powered tablets sold.
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By examining the data it can also be found that the Kindle Fire affected the sales of other popular Android tablet makers such as Acer and Asus whose combined share dropped from 24 percent in Nov. to 14 percent in Jan.
Tech site 9to5 Google attributes the growth of the Amazon Kindle Fire to the ecosystem that Amazon has created.
Flurry also recorded how many paid apps were downloaded on the Galaxy Tab and Kindle Fire finding that the Fire drove over 2.5 times more paid downloads than the Galaxy Tab.
"This shows that for tablets, the Amazon App Store can already deliver more direct revenue to developers that the Android Market," read Flurry's report. "Even more impressive is that the Galaxy Tab, launched in Nov. 2010, has a much larger existing installed base than then newly launched Kindle Fire."
Flurry also stated that there is about double the amount of Galaxy Tabs in the market as there is of Kindle Fires making this a huge feat for Amazon.
"Therefore, the Great Tablet Bloodbath is about ecosystem," wrote 9to5 Google.
The site feels that Amazon has built the "most reputable and consumer-friendly Android tablet brand."
