FRAMINGHAM, Mass., October 31, 2016 — The worldwide
tablet market continued its slump as vendors shipped 43 million units in the third quarter of 2016 (3Q16), a year - over-year decline of 14.7 %, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker.
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The tablet market continues to be impacted by a few major trends happening in relevant markets,» Ryan Reith, Program Director with IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Device Trackers, writes.
Whether
the tablet market continues to grow cannibalization - free, or if it impacts sales of netbooks, Acer evidently intends to play a part in it.
The tablet market continues to decline according to a new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly
Amazon has ousted Samsung as the second biggest tablet vendor, but
tablet market continues to shrink.
While the global
tablet market continues to shrink, Samsung is still the second biggest manufacturer of tablets after Apple.
While tablets aren't as popular with some adults these days as they once were,
the tablet market continues to thrive in other areas — including the kids tablet market.
The tablet market continues to decline according to a new data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker.
As
the tablet market continues to flood with an array of low - cost slates, Barnes & Noble has been fighting hard to hold its grip of the mobile market.
Amazon has ousted Samsung as the second biggest tablet vendor, but
tablet market continues to shrink.
While the overall
tablet market continues to slide -LRB--10 % YoY) as a number of units sold, the popularity of more expensive Windows 2 - in - 1s and Surface - inspired iPad Pros has actually pushed the average sale price up 6 %.
Not exact matches
Apple
continues to dominate
tablets with more than 65 % of the
market, with only Amazon's Kindle Fire managing to breach double digits.
We've seen the mobile
market and third - party research show us that it
continues to grow both from phones and
tablets.
In
tablets, Apple
continues to dominate the U.S.
market.
However, while the iPad still rules the
tablet market and will
continue to have a sizeable portion to itself in the foreseeable future, they will still need to take into account the ever rising brigade of Android
tablet devices.
Meanwhile, IDC has further predicted that the
tablet segment will
continue to be price sensitive with it being the low cost
tablet devices that will be driving growth of the segment, be it in the emerging
markets in the east or the more developed
market in the west.
Apple
continues to rule in the
tablet space, though its hold of the
market is eroding fast, reports IDC.
Apple
continues to brag about how happy people are with their iPads, the growing sales in countries like China and India and the company's leading
market share in
tablets.
Amazon has sold over 2.2 million Fire
Tablets in the first quarter of 2017 and the Seattle company
continues to
market them at a very aggressive price point with a strategy to drive content and product sales via the device.
Analyst Forrester has put out a new forecast for the global
tablet market, which predicts
tablet sales will
continue their rocket - like growth trajectory in the coming years, with a projected compound annual growth rate of 25.6 % between 2012 and 2017.
Gartner's Special Report, «iPad and Beyond: The Future of the
Tablet Market,» provides insight into what consumers, enterprises and vendors can expect as the market continues to u
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While Android will
continue to keep its place as the leading operating system, Apple, with 27.5 %
market share, remains the single - biggest brand in the
tablet market.
«Apple's
tablets remain strong in the higher end of the
market and, Apple's approach will
continue to force vendors to compete with full ecosystem offerings, even in the smaller - screen
market as the iPad mini sees a greater share», writes Cozza.
However, both could agree on some larger trends: for starters, Apple
continues to lead in terms of
tablet market share, though that lead is slipping.
Since then, the Android
tablet market has slowly faded while so - called «phablets» or smartphones bearing large displays have
continued to blur the line between these two different types of products.
Strategy Analytics believes that enterprise purchases (as well as consumer purchases of two - in - one
tablets to replaces PCs) will
continue to fuel sales of large
tablets over the next four years, with shipments almost doubling to 19.3 million units, or a seven percent share of the total
tablet market, in 2019.
But in the meantime, some research out today from the Pew Research Center on e-reading sheds some light on how the key U.S.
market appears to be moving: specifically, ownership of
tablets like the iPad has overtaken ownership of e-reading devices like the Kindle, with the number of people using both
continuing to rise.
If I were to take a calculated assumption, I'd say the average price of
tablets right now is somewhere around $ 300, and it's probably going to
continue to go down further, with the Android
tablet market share being on the rise.
Meanwhile, the dedicated e-reader
market has
continued to shrink, as consumers flock to ever smaller, cheaper, and lighter 7 - and 8 - inch
tablets, many with resolutions high enough to eliminate text pixelation, a key factor if you'll be doing long - form reading on a
tablet.
As price points
continue to drop and Google's mobile OS
continues to improve, I believe Android will eventually dominate the
tablet market.
What has also come to light is that Apple
continues to sit on top of the
tablet heap with its
market share actually increasing by 3.1 percent.
Tamblyn verified the exit of the
tablet market by confirming «The
tablet devices we already have out there will
continue to be sold, but we are not at this point planning any new
tablets.»
We
continue to
market e-readers directly to customers all over the world and the main advantage with us is that we ship e-readers and
tablets to
markets where they are normally unavailable.
However, with the next episode of the Samsung vs Apple court battle Down Under all set to be underway on Dec 09, all of this will surely add up to Samsung's financial woes while its
tablet continue to be kept away from the
market.
Samsung
continued to be the second largest
tablet vendor with 7.6 million
tablets shipped in the second quarter and 17 %
market share, a 12 % year - over-year unit decline.
Last, but not least, if this speeding up technological innovation
continues, the next generation of e-readers will be readier to compete with the
tablets, which brings with it the prospect of a new wave of buyers, i.e. of a more solid growth of the e-books and e-readers
markets.
Asus though has stated it will
continue to roll out 3G variants of its other
tablet offerings from time to time to ensure they remain in contention in the
markets.
The iPad should
continue to dominate the
tablet market for years to come, with at least 50 %
market share.
Here, Gartner's job is easier: Since no single device or even a platform has come close to Apple's iOS on the
tablet market, it's quite safe to say that Apple will
continue to dominate in the next couple of years, and Gartner agrees.
Amazon
continued it's quest to become a major force in the
tablet market yesterday with the announcements of it's latest devices.
The worldwide media
tablet market grew 45.1 % in the third quarter of 2010 thanks to
continued huge demand for the Apple iPad according to a report out this week from the International Data Corporation.
In the meantime, the Android
tablet market as a whole doesn't really seem to have experienced any worthwhile growth in 2017, and on the most part, the budget - friendly segment where slates like the Amazon Fire series reside
continues to be the more successful part of the business.
With new
tablets hitting the
market from Google and Microsoft, ABI said it expects growth trends to
continue.
The entire
tablet market is literary corner - stoned by Apple, but as the HP TouchPad and the Amazon Fire
continue to prove, customers are attracted to low cost devices.
There were a large number of
tablets that are expected to come into the
market by 2016, so we're going to
continue to see a significant penetration around
tablets.
«Although media
tablet sales were not as high as expected in the first quarter of 2011 due to slower consumer demand, overall economic conditions and supply - chain constraints, we believe with the entrance of competitive new devices in the second half of 2011, the
market will sell close to 53 million units for the year and
continue to grow long - term,» said IDC research analyst Jennifer Song.
Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Amazon
continue to lead the charge and garner most of the
market share in the realm of e-readers and
tablets.
So while the TouchPad has caught on the fancy of
tablet gazers worldwide, thanks to a reduced price tag of just $ 99, and the iPad
continue its impressive run in the
market, PlayBook is quietly scripting a success story of its own Down Under.
If you look at 80 % of all
tablets hitting they
market they are running Android, which
continues to be a very fragmented operating system.
If Amazon
continues to ignore the broader international
market, customers are likely to keep buying iPads or other competing
tablets, such as the Kobo Vox.