While a little less than half of Amazon's
tablet shipments last year went out during the holiday season, Samsung's holiday tablet shipments only accounted for 28 percent of its shipments that year.
Not exact matches
Consumer preference for
tablet devices continue to rise unabated with the latest research by Strategy Analytics revealing a rise of 43 percent in
tablet pc
shipments in Q2 2013 compared to the same period
last year.
As the first quarter earnings have been made public the
last few weeks, so has a few
tablet shipment figures from various agencies.
Apple led the global
tablet market with 28.8 per cent share in the first quarter of 2018 as
tablet shipments reached 31.7 million — declining 11.7 per cent from the same quarter
last year, the International Data Corporation (IDC) reported on Friday.
With 73 million
tablet devices sold in 2011, this means that
tablets accounted for around 25 % of mobile PC
shipments last year.
Thanks in large part to Amazon's success, smaller
tablets made up 23 percent of all
tablet shipments in the fourth quarter
last year, up from close to 0 percent earlier in the year.
Figures from analyst firm IDC show that overall
tablet shipments fell by 6.5 percent to 163.5 million units
last year.
Shipments of
tablets and «two - in - one» devices that combine
tablet and laptop features sank to 47.1 million in a drop of nearly six percent from the first three months of
last year, according to market - tracker IDC.
However, this would make up the
last shipment of the TouchPad before the
tablet is relegated to the pages of history.
Shipments started late
last year but have been affected by disputes between Datawind and an Indian education institution responsible for providing specifications and testing the
tablet.
Asustek has announced its intention to achieve an aggressive
tablet shipment target of 6 million units in 2012, which will be three times more than
last year's 1.8 million units.
Posting a new report for full year 2012 and projections through to 2017, the analyst notes that market expansion
last year was «largely driven» by 78.4 % year - over-year growth in
tablet shipments — which exceeded 128 million units.
Although the iPad remains the best - selling
tablet, Apple's share of the
tablet market dropped 8.1 points year - over-year during the
last quarter — albeit based on
shipments rather than actual sales to end users, according to new iDC numbers.
In fact, the only major
tablet manufacturer to grow this quarter was Huawei, which was up to 2.7 million
shipments, from just 2 million the same time
last year.
Lenovo
tablet shipments were down 10.8 percent in the quarter to 2.7 million, while fifth - place Huawei shipped 2.4 million
tablets in an increase of 28.4 percent from the third quarter of
last year as the Chinese companies filled out the top five spots in the market, IDC reported.
Tablet shipments are slowing in anticipation of new models from the company, IDC said
last week.
«Samsung
tablet shipments started to grow remarkably since the second half of
last year,» Shin said.
The South Korean electronics giant has vigorously boosted
tablet shipments during the
last 12 months, increasing its share position by 8.1 percentage points.
Shipments of the 7.x - inch
tablet display in 2012 will amount to 41.1 million units, nearly double from 20.8 million units
last year.
The report claims that consumers» interest in slates continues to grow, with the reported 49.1 million total
tablet shipments in Q1 of 2013 surpassing the total number of
shipments made in the entire first half of
last year.
The
tablet market as a whole is stronger than ever, with a record total of 52.5 million
shipments counted
last quarter, which is a 74.3 % increase over
last quarter's number of 30.1 million units.
As announced during Apple's own earnings report
last week, iPad
shipments hit a record 22.9 million
last quarter, which is good for a 43.6 % share of the total
tablet market.
As a result, global
tablet shipments declined for the first time ever in the
last quarter of 2014.
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.