[News] Apple, Samsung lose ground in cooling tablet market

NEW YORK: Apple and Samsung have lost ground in the tablet computer market as growth cools in the once-hot segment, the research firm IDC said Thursday.

An IDC survey said sales of tablets in the March-June period were 49.3 million, up a modest 11 per cent from a year ago but down 1.5 per cent from the previous quarter.

Apple, which popularized tablets with its iPad, remained the largest single