Apple's tablet share falls to 50.4 percent

According to the latest IDC figures, Apple's share of the tablet market fell to just 50.4 percent in the Q3 of this year.For the quarter, there were 27.8 million total tablets shipped, with Apple selling 14.01 million of those.

Samsung came in second at 18.4 percent and Amazon jumped up to 9 percent with their new Kindle Fire line. Asus jumped to 8.6 percent thanks to the Nexus 7 and its Transformers and Lenovo rounded out the top 5 with 1.4 percent share.

Year-over-year, the market grew a healthy 49.5 percent, and the market grew 6.7 percent from last quarter.

Despite selling more tablets, Apple fell 15 percentage points from the same period last year, as Android tablets finally began to gain some traction. Samsung took most of that share, thanks to its popular Note 10.1 tab.

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Android now up to 75 percent market share

Android has now convincingly destroyed its rivals in global smartphone market share.According to IDC's figures for the Q3 2012, Android now controls a full 75 percent market share, beating out iOS which is in second at 14.9 percent. BlackBerry remained in third, but a distant so, at 4.3 percent.

Windows Phone accounted for 2 percent (including the old Windows Mobile) with Symbian and all others taking the remaining scraps.

In total, smartphone shipments totaled 181.1 million, with Google's OS reaching a quarterly record of 136 million.

Perhaps most notably, Android shipments saw 91.5 percent growth from the same period last year, where the OS had 57.5 percent share. The trend was strong for iOS, as well, with Apple's OS shipments 57.3 percent year-over-year.

BlackBerry and Symbian collapsed, as expected, as both OS continue their trend of heading to 0.

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