A pair of new market share reports show declining
numbers of tablets shipped in 2015.
Worldwide,
the number of tablets shipped 2013Q2, 45.1 million, is up 59 percent from the same time period in 2012.
According to it's latest numbers, android tablets will capture 48.8 percent of the total
number of tablets shipped in 2013.
Not exact matches
In the first quarter
of 2017 Amazon
shipped out 2.2 million
tablets and are only rivaled by Apple, Samsung and Huawei in the
number of units
shipped.
Apple — which ironically now offers more models
of its iPad
tablet than ever before — will
ship 64.9 million iPad
tablets in 2014, a decline
of 12.7 % on the total
number of shipments a year ago.
The first device to
ship running Android 4.3, the
tablet is both thinner and lighter than its predecessor, and sports a
number of other improvements, including a forward - facing camera, a high - resolution rear - facing camera and a brilliant 1920 x 1200 display.
Meanwhile, experts estimate the total
number of PlayBook
tablet PCs
shipped since its launch is a not - so - bad 850,000 units.
As per the report, the total
number of tablets to be
shipped in the first quarter
of this year is 114.97... [Read more...]
The total
number of XOOM
tablet devices
shipped in the last quarter stand at a dismal 100,000, units which looks even more puny compared to the 11.1 million iPads sold during the same period.
The exact
number of Android
tablet users has always been doubted (some semantics on whether
shipped or bought equals market share) but as late as July
of this year, some folks were guessing only a million or so have been sold (compared to nearly 30 millin for the iPad at the time).
By comparison, Android's figures are the
shipped number of tablets, so any devices sitting on a store shelf actually count, and they shouldn't for market share purposes.
The 7.5 percent
number for Windows
tablets shipped seems high compared with IDC's first - quarter estimate
of 2.8 percent.
So when you take into account that some variable proportion
of shipped Android
tablets languish unsold on retailers» shelves, Android's situation may be even bleaker than IDC's
numbers suggest.
Unlike the iPad, Blackberry and Android
tablet manufacturers do not control the retail sales
of their product so they are not able to give you exact sales
numbers only what is
shipped to retail outlets based on their demand.
A
number of Canadian early adopters who pre-ordered Google's Galaxy Nexus on June 27 are upset that their
tablets haven't yet
shipped while some retail stores like Staples have already sold out
of their initial stock.
Maybe the $ 199
tablet comes with a year
of Amazon Prime (free two - day
shipping) service; based on the increased
number of purchases I've made since getting Amazon Prime, the company could easily recoup the
tablet subsidy in short order.
There isn't a 1:1 correspondence between touch panels
shipped and the
number of tablets based upon them that will
ship, but it's close enough, especially when you're dealing with what are, in any case, just forecasts.
Samsung has said that it wants to
ship 100 million
tablets this year, an ambitious goal that would more than double the
number of tablets that the company
shipped in 2013.
Since iSuppli could not get its hand on an actual Amazon
tablet, the
numbers are merely estimates and that a more accurate assessment will only be possible when a complete physical teardown
of the Kindle Fire is done after the product begins
shipping in mid-November.
The latest
numbers from IHS show that Samsung's share
of the worldwide
tablet market has risen to around 22 %, which still puts it behind Apple in overall market share, although that will change in a hurry if the company can really make good on its vow to
ship 100 million Galaxy
tablets this year.
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.
Amazon offers 3G on the kindle and the Amazon MP3 digital music store
ships as a standard package with a
number of Android
tablets on the market.
These stats are a bit better if you look at other research
numbers, which estimate that 224.3 million
tablets were
shipped in 2015, compared to 242.2 million in 2014 — a decline
of only 8.1 %.
In addition to announcing its new fingerprint scanner, Goodix also mentioned that it
shipped over 350 million fingerprint scanners to date, and that it has been collaborating with Huawei for a long time now, as the Huawei P10, P10 Plus, Mate 10, MediaPad M5
tablets... and a
number of other Huawei - branded devices sport Goodix's fingerprint scanners.