Kindle slates are still the second most desired tablet series behind Apple's iPad lineup according to one study, and while Samsung passed Amazon last year to steal the No. 2 spot in terms of global
tablet shipment volume, Samsung is stumbling right now and its new tablets are anything but impressive.
Not exact matches
«Meanwhile, in mature markets like the US where
tablets have been shipping in large
volumes since 2010 and are already well established, we're less concerned about big phones cannibalising
shipments and more worried about market saturation.»
So even assuming that
tablet growth is slower than IDC expects, and that PC
shipments simply continue their current pace of decline, by the second quarter of 2014,
tablets and PCs will ship similar unit
volumes.
Worldwide
Tablet / 2 - in -1
Shipments, Market Share, Year - Over-Year Growth, and 5 - Year CAGR by Operating System, 2014 - 2018 (
shipment volumes in millions)
Worldwide
Tablet / 2 - in -1
Shipments, Market Share, and 5 - Year CAGR by Region, 2014 - 2018 (
shipment volume in millions)
In addition to the
tablet PC, Amazon also outsources its Kindle e-book reader to Foxconn with an estimated
volume of 15 - 18 million units, accounting for 60 - 70 % of global e-book reader
shipments of 25 - 30 million units in 2011.
Total
tablet shipments are expected to reach 59m units by the end of the year, with fourth - quarter
volumes predicted to exceed 22m units.
Apple's
Tablet Plans Apple is set to reclaim its tablet market share when it commences volume shipments of the next version of the iPad, which is expected in the second quarter of this
Tablet Plans Apple is set to reclaim its
tablet market share when it commences volume shipments of the next version of the iPad, which is expected in the second quarter of this
tablet market share when it commences
volume shipments of the next version of the iPad, which is expected in the second quarter of this year.
That figure is good for a 21.5 % share of the global
tablet market, up sequentially from 20.2 % despite the fact that
shipment volume declined slightly.