Apple and its fans don’t miss any chance to boast that the iPad is the undisputed leader in the tablet world and that other tablets “do not exist”. However, according to the latest data accumulated by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the Android tablet market share is now at 48% from last year’s 15%, 21% of which has been provided by Amazon’s Kindle Fire sales.

The Kindle Fire doesn’t actually allow access to Google services despite running on Android, so you could argue that Android tablets with access to the Play Store only account for 27% of the market, but since the data doesn’t factor in the $200 Google Nexus 7 yet, so there’s a high chance of the Android tablet market share increasing by a huge margin by the end of the year.

Android tablets are clearly eating away at the iPad’s dominant position in the tablet world, and should be able to cross the iPad when the Nexus 7 and Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HD tablets are included in the data. Let’s just hope that this data is enough reason for app developers to start making proper tablet apps for Android, as it’s still a long road before the number of proper tablet apps for Android match tablet apps for the iPad.