As the first quarter earnings have been made public the last few weeks, so has a few
tablet shipment figures from various agencies.
IDC, though, decided to walk a different path by actually lowering
the tablet shipment figures for 2013 to 227.2 million units.
Tablet shipment figures for the first quarter of 2013 are already here and they present an interesting scenario.
Not exact matches
The report, titled «NPD DisplaySearch Quarterly Mobile PC
Shipment and Forecast Report,» claims there will be 315 million
tablet devices sold in 2014, while the
figure is projected to rise to 455 million by 2017.
And the latest
tablet figures today is the top 5
tablet brand
shipments as measured by International Data Corporation (IDC).
Figures from analyst firm IDC show that overall
tablet shipments fell by 6.5 percent to 163.5 million units last year.
From a charted section, «Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide
Tablet Shipments, Fourth Quarter 2012,» Purcell is able to distill some compelling
figures in wonderfully clear and worrisome terms:
Analyst Gartner expects worldwide
tablet shipments to grow 42.7 % 53.4 % [Gartner has issued a correction to its earlier
figures] this year, with
shipments reaching 184 million units.
Apple continued to win out in terms of
tablet market share this past quarter, according to the latest
figures from ABI Research, with a 55 percent share of all
shipments during the period.
But today's
figures did not rise to the 19.2 million worldwide
shipments expected by the research firm, indicating that the
tablet sector did not perform as well as it could have done.
Whilst market growth for PCs is said to be stalling,
figures for
tablet shipments are once again being rethought.
But then I saw the IDC
figures for
tablet shipments in quarter four, 2012 and, even if we take those
figures as close to accurate, the news is really quite bad news for B&N:
Following
shipments of 3.3 million iPads, the world's most popular
tablet stole shares from the netbook segment but offered a boost to overall revenue
figures with its relatively high average selling price (ASP).
At that point, Apple will have - roughly speaking - a 41 per cent share of the
tablet market, if these panel
shipment figures prove accurate.
That
figure, which is double the number of
tablets Samsung shipped in 2012, is certainly nothing to scoff at but it will fall short of Apple's full - year iPad
shipments in 2013.
Apple's iPad continues to dominate the
tablet market, with global
shipments up to 9.3 m units according to the latest
figures, though its percentage marketshare has declined by over 33 - percent thanks to increasing competition from consumer - centric rivals.
These are
shipment figures only and they include eReaders and
tablets other than Honeycomb.
Shipments of
tablet displays this year are projected to reach 126.6 million units, up from 82.1 million units in 2011, as presented in the
figure below.
And the
figure is only likely to increase largely: Gigaom Research is forecasting
tablet shipment growth to top 427 million units by 2017 (subscription required).
Digitimes has sourced
shipment figures for
tablets in Q3 (July — September) as well as confirming (yet again) the existence of some yet to be released
tablets — the HTC Puccini and Amazon
tablets.
After reaching to the milestone of 76.9 million in the previous quarter,
tablet shipments faced slowdown in the first quarter of 2014 as the total
figure slipped to 50.4 million.
That
figure is good for a 21.5 % share of the global
tablet market, up sequentially from 20.2 % despite the fact that
shipment volume declined slightly.