Apple launched a new 9.7 inch
tablet over the first quarter, priced at merely $ 299 for students and this boosted the whole education segment.
Not exact matches
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.
In all, 22 percent of the 41.3 million
tablets that shipped
over the
first quarter of 2014 did so with 3G or 4G / LTE on board, which, ABI claims is the highest percentage since 2011.
However, Android
tablets too hasn't exactly been push -
overs as they have improved their market share by 8.2 percent during the
first quarter of 2011, bringing its worldwide share of the
tablet segment to 34 percent.
The
first quarter contraction marks the tenth straight
quarter that
tablets have experienced a decline
over the same
quarter a year earlier, with the previous five
quarters recording double - digit drops.
Worldwide
tablet market declined yet again in the
first quarter of 2016 with 39.6 million units shipped, down 14.7 % year
over year, according to latest report from the International Data Corporation (IDC).
Highlights: • Revenue in the
first quarter of fiscal 2012 grew 16 %
over the same
quarter last year • International revenue1 in Q1 grew 67 % year
over year • Gross margin in the
quarter was approximately 44 %, slightly higher than expected due to product mix • RIM launched the BlackBerry PlayBook
tablet in North America and shipped approximately 500,000 units in the
first quarter
However, the production of the
tablet is expected to hit
over 4.5 million by the
first quarter of next year.