How much of the Other section was Google?
Pretty big methinks. Most people I know own Nexus slabs, so it's craxy to lump them in the other section.
A tear in the space time continuum caused slab sales growth to slip in Q3 – or perhaps it was just that retailers and distributors decided to order fewer ageing devices ahead of planned product refreshes. It is indeed more likely the second issue: limited tablet shipments into the UK channel meant that we saw just 2.63 million …
For such a significant market share, 'others' should be affecting apps/media sales. But all it's doing is allowing them the 'researchers' to fudge the market share of everyone else...
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/11/16/the-curious-case-of-idc-gartner-strategy-analytics-pc-phone-tablet-data-on-apple
There are problems with browsing the web using tablets running iOS7.0.3 and iOS7.0.4 which will depress any Christmas sales hopes for Apple tablets. See the Apple Support Community under Ios7 problems, safari crashes to get a flavour of what is happening in the real world where users expect things to work.