SAN FRANCISCO, April 11 (Xinhua) -- Apple's iOS will account for more than half of media tablet operating system (OS) for the next three years and continue to own the majority of the market through 2015, Gartner said in its latest forecast on Monday.
According to the IT research and advisory firm, due to the success of Apple's iPad, iOS will account for 69 percent of media tablet OSs in 2011 and represent 47 percent of the media tablet market in 2015.
Gartner analysts said Apple iPad had reinvented the tablet market as iPhone did to the smartphone market.
Meanwhile, Google's Android OS is projected to increase its worldwide share of the media tablet market from 20 percent in 2011 to 39 percent in 2015.
The QNX, OS used on the Blackberry Playbook which will make debut in 2012, is forecast to have a limited share of the market. Gartner said success in the media tablet market will be driven by the richness of applications and services around the OS, and QNX needs to attract more developers to pose it as viable alternative to iOS or Android.
A media tablet is a device based on a touchscreen display whose primary focus is the consumption of media. It runs a lightweight OS which is a subset of the traditional fully featured OS such as Windows.
