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Apple’s iPad has a decidedly one-sided dominance in global tablet traffic on the Internet in May 2011, accounting for an overwhelming 89% share. On a country-by-country comparative basis in the comscore.com study, Canada had the highest share (33.5%) of the iPad contributing to the overall non-computer device traffic, followed closely by Brazil with 31.8% (but with less than 1% of overall traffic in the country) and Germany in third spot at 29.4%. In Canada, when the iPad usage is taken into account with iPhone traffic (34.6%) and iPod touch devices usage (14.9%), Apple products dominated the non-computer device Internet traffic in May 2011 with a combined 83%.

Cloud networking provider Meraki released a report that stated the average iPad consumed 40% more data over wireless networks in a month that did the average iPhone, iPod, or Android device. Computers using Microsoft Windows or the Macintosh Operating System on wireless networks declined to 36% of all devices using wireless networks from 63% only a year ago. Meraki surveyed anonymously and randomly 100,000 devices accessing educational and public wireless networks during the first half of 2010 and 2011 respectively.