HP second to iPad?

So says the research firm NPD Group. Sales for the failed HP Touchpad were second only to the all mighty iPAD for 2011. In the firm’s estimation, HP held 17 percent share of U.S. tablet brands, followed by Samsung at 16 percent, Asus at 10 percent, and Motorola and Acer at 9 percent. Overall, consumers in the United States snatched up some 1.2 million non-iPad tablets from January through October, according to The NPD Group’s data. Collectively, those tablets generated an estimated $415 million at retail, with accessories bringing that total to around $700 million. To put the numbers of all the other non Apple tablets in perspective Apple sold some 11.12 million iPads in its fiscal 2011 fourth quarter, a 166 percent unit increase over the same quarter in 2010.