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HELSINKI/SEOUL (Reuters) – Apple's iPad module move to lie the surging media paper mart for years, with Google activity catch-up, investigate concern Gartner said on Monday.

Gartner said it expects 70 meg media tablets to be oversubscribed this assemblage and 108 meg in 2012, compared with meet 17.6 meg in 2010.

Apple's deal of the mart module gradually fall to 47 proportionality in 2015 from 69 proportionality this year, patch Google's deal module rise to 39 proportionality from 20 proportionality now.

Google's Android has stormed the smartphone market, where it module embellish the No 1 papers this year, and it has emerged as the exclusive viable resolution for tablet-makers who do not possess their possess operative system.

Research In Motion's QNX platform, used in its soon-to-be-launched PlayBook tablet, module verify the No.3 function on the mart this year, with a 5.6 proportionality share. Gartner sees that ascension to 10 proportionality in 2015.

"It module verify instance and momentous effort for RIM to draw developers and hit a compelling ecosystem of applications and services around QNX to function it as a viable alternative to Apple or Android," Gartner shrink Carolina Milanesi said.

"It module be mainly organizations that module be interested in RIM's tablets because they either already hit RIM's stock deployed or hit demanding section requirements," she said in a statement.

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Apple is estimated to hit oversubscribed about 1 meg iPad 2's in the prototypal weekend of its U.S. start primeval last month. By comparison, its closest competition in hardware, Samsung Electronics

may hit oversubscribed a kindred sort of Galaxy Tabs in the past threesome months and income ontogeny is due to remain weak.

Slow income of Tab, connected with battleful pricing plans of iPad2, is pressuring profit ontogeny at Samsung.

Samsung, the most battleful contender to Apple with threesome assorted sizes of tablets, is ease activity catch-up and analysts expect the firm, which uses Google's Android in its tablets, to process marketing expenses to boost sales.

"Their biggest contest is individual interface, how they are going to attain their devices any assorted from those of Motorola

or HTC," said Milanesi.

Samsung is widely famous as digit of the fastest mass in the changeable electronics industry. To better compete with Apple, Samsung redesigned its new 10.1-inch tablet, prototypal introduced in February, in meet weeks to attain it the thinnest in the category after Apple ordered the way with the slimmer iPad 2.

Samsung's follow-up models module be on the mart in June at the earliest, threesome months after iPad 2's rollout.

"Expectations for tablets hit driven Samsung shares since November, but it has so farther failed to springy up to that expectation. Whether Samsung's deal can rise again module largely depend on how strongly its follow-up paper models do in the market," said Lee Seung-woo, an shrink at Shinyoung Securities.

(Editing by Jon Loades-Carter and Erica Billingham)

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