Microsoft has been having a great holiday season. The Xbox One had a strong Black Friday and now it appears that the one-time underdog of the tablet world- the Surface Pro- may have surpassed the iPad in online sales for the month of October.
Online sales is the key word here. In a story originally published by WinBeta, online hardware sales from the top 100 online retailers was tracked by analytics firm 1010data. As you can see in the graph below, Apple experienced a steep decline in iPad sales in September while Microsoft saw a spike in Surface tablet sales around the same time.
Microsoft released the Surface Pro 4 and the Surface Book on October 6th of this year. While Apple has seen its tablet computer sales decline the iPad still has the most market share for 2015.
Image via Geek Snack
Graph via WinBeta
