Research firm IDC today reported that iPad sales represented nearly 90 percent of the media tablets that shipped worldwide during the third quarter of 2010, and
forecast overall shipments to reach 70.7 million units by 2012.
Not exact matches
Looking forward, IDC expects
shipment volumes to return to low single - digit growth in 2018 and the
overall market to experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.8 % over the 2017 - 2022
forecast period with volumes
forecast to reach 1.68 billion units in 2022.
The firm
forecasts that roughly 11 percent of
overall tablet
shipments, or 6.5 million units, will be to businesses, government agencies or schools by 2014.
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Overall unit
shipments in the quarter were slightly below our
forecast due to lower than expected demand for older models.