[athst]

To me, it seems like they must have omitted the iPad share on purpose to come up with this huge share number that actually doesn't matter.

I'm sure that they have the numbers - but if they included iPad, we'd probably see that the Fire's share one the overall tablet market share is some unexciting low number like 1%. Capturing a massive share of the Android tablet market isn't that important when Apple might be selling like 50 or 100 iPads for every Android tablet sold.

[fredleblanc]

True, but just this morning I was asking people which Android devices should I get for testing on (for web development), and this really helps answer the question. The overall share may be small, but of that share, Kindle Fire is the most common — and, it seems, getting more common all the time.

So: still a useful article.