Apple (AAPL) Commands China's Tablet Market (MSFT)

Although Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) has struggled to make a larger dent in the China smartphone market, tablets have been flying off the shelves left and right.

Data from Analysys, hightlighted by Digitimes, shows Apple with a 64.6 percent share of the Chinese tablet market, markedly larger than second-place contender Lenovo with 7.6 percent.

Rounding out the top top five include Samsung at 7.2 percent, Eben at 3.1 percent, and Teclast at 2.2 percent. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) was sixth at 1.9 percent.

Apple probably gained most of that market share when it introduced the iPad mini tablet into the country in late 2011/early 2012. With such a large share, the company bringing a lower-cost version of its iPhone to China this year might set sales on fire as many look to compliment their Apple tablet.

Shares of Apple are up 1.7 percent Monday.

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