As the first company to put a significant dent in Apple's
tablet market share following the iPad's debut, expectations are always high when Amazon prepares to launch new hardware.
Not exact matches
The third largest
tablet manufacturer was Samsung, whose
market share grew from 5.5 % in Q3 to 5.8 % in Q4 2011,
followed by Barnes & Noble with a 3.5 %
market share (down from 4.5 % in Q3) and Pandigital, which held 2.5 % of the
market.
In
market share, the iPad was
followed by the Samsung Galaxy
tablets at 4 % and the Google Nexus at 2 %.
Its first Kindle Fire
tablet in 2011 was by no means a home run, but the versions that
followed proved substantially better, even if Amazon's
share of the worldwide
tablet market remains a miniscule.4 %, according to IDC.
IDC is the firm with the figures and they've shown that Samsung Electronics was the largest
tablet maker worldwide, with a 19 %
market share in Q1 2017,
followed by Foxconn, with 16 % and Compal a 13 %.
But if Microsoft wants to carve out considerable
tablet market share, particularly against formidable competitors, it might consider the
following factors:
Sony recently reported that the
Tablet S was able to grab around a 26 % share of the Android tablet market in the month following its
Tablet S was able to grab around a 26 %
share of the Android
tablet market in the month following its
tablet market in the month
following its debut.
The IDC report also listed the top five
tablet vendors for Q4 2015 in terms of shipment where Apple occupied the top spot with 16.1 million units,
followed by Samsung with 9 million (13.7 percent
market share) and Amazon with 5.2 million (7.9 percent
market share).