Apple remains the top
tablet vendor with a 23.2 % share despite the shrinking sales.
The good news is that Apple is still the top
tablet vendor with a 20.6 % share, followed by Samsung (12.8 %), Amazon (6.7 %) and Lenovo (5.8 %).
IDC said Apple remained the largest
tablet vendor with 16.4 million iPads sold in the first quarter.
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.
Amazon was the third biggest
tablet vendor with its fourth quarter shipments remaining relatively flat year - over-year at 5.2 million.
Not exact matches
And
with partners, offices and
vendors in multiple time zones, we need to ensure that the tools they need are always at the ready on
tablets and other responsive mobile devices.
Buying Motorola will enable Lenovo to join Apple Inc. as the only major technology companies
with global product lines in PCs, smartphones and
tablets, putting Lenovo in a better position to become a one - stop shop for companies to buy all their devices from the same
vendor, said Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett.
«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.
Amazon, Asus and Barnes & Noble
with 11.5 % market share, 5.8 % and 1.9 %, respectively, finish off the top - five list of
tablet vendors.
Going further into specific
vendors and brands, Apple continues to lead
tablet sales overall
with 36 % of all sales on that 70 million figure.
It makes some sense that they would want out of the
tablet market for good, since other
tablets can run the Nook app, but how would they be a competitive ebook
vendor if there are no dedicated e-readers compatible
with their books?
It knows that combining its own app store
with its content and storage would allow it to compete extremely well
with Motorola, Samsung, RIM and all of the other
tablet vendors, since its offering would be pretty close to what Apple has,» he said.
Odys is a smaller German based
vendor who are clearly taking advantage of Intel's very aggressive push in the affordable
tablet space as well as Microsoft's new strategy of virtually giving away Windows 8.1 licenses
with a special version of Win 8.1 that has Bing set as the default search engine in the OS and IE browser.
Some
vendors we spoke to explained that they were buying
tablet motherboards
with Intel Bay Trail SoCs from Foxcomm.
«
With the cost and time - to - market advantages afforded by their Chinese supply chain... small - to - micro brand
vendors are eating up
tablet market share.
Canalys believes that Microsoft will account for 5 % of the
tablet market next year,
with its acquisition of Nokia helping to push it closer to turning that market share around by turning the company into «a fully - fledged smart mobile device
vendor.»
Sure, many of the
vendors we spoke to had only been working
with Intel for around 6 months or less, and often the
tablet product in the brochure or the poster remained an engineering sample
with protective plastic film to keep it safe.
«
With media
tablets offering more functionality, e-reader
vendors need to target avid readers who may see the value of a stand - alone device that performs particularly well,» said Allen Weiner, research vice president at Gartner.
Global sales of
tablet computers surged 50.6 percent last year,
with Apple clinging to the top
vendor spot amid strong gains by rivals, a survey showed Wednesday.
Tablet computer sales fell in the second quarter of 2015,
with market leaders Apple and Samsung losing ground to other
vendors, a survey showed Wednesday.
RCA - brand
tablets were fifth
with a 4.9 percent share, while 41.8 percent came from other
vendors.
Looking at the rest of the
vendors,
tablet market leaders Apple and Samsung, which typically are tasked
with carrying the market forward each year, also felt the strain in Q1,
with both manufacturers experiencing year - over-year declines.
Wearables entail a unique set of constraints for
vendors and platform owners more experienced
with the smartphone and
tablet markets.»
He wondered what message is being sent across when
vendors are still going ahead
with the Android
tablet plans ignoring Google's pleas to not to do so.
Thirdly, I mentioned epub, or it could be any standard file type that I can open in my iBooks app, kinkle, or random off - brand E-reader, but many ebook
vendors insist on making their ebooks only available via their own atrocious apps, which if I indulged them in this folly, would lead to my
tablets being overrun
with random apps and my book collection scattered across them.
There is a steady stream of new
vendors joining the
tablet market which provides the end consumer
with more options and features.
«Taiwan - based notebook brand
vendor Acer is set to launch a
tablet PC featuring the Intel Oak Trail platform and Google Android 3.0 operating system
with the device already going under mass production by Compal Electronics and will start selling in July at the latest, according to sources from upstream component players.»
In fact, it might not be a scenario limited to only the XOOM as
with the launch of the iPad3 and Google's next generation Ice Cream Sandwich
tablets scheduled later in the year, there are further price drops that can be expected from other
vendors in order to make sure that their soon to be outdated models don't get piled up.
Tablets will be much more dependent on the latter than smartphones have been, and the sooner
vendors realize that the better chance they have to compete head - to - head
with Apple,» added Milanesi.
More importantly, Amazon and other tech
vendors understood that if they did not get a foot in the door
with a
tablet of their own, Apple's lead would only increase.
«Prices for Android 3.1 - based
tablet PCs to be launched by other
vendors in the second half of the year may also be affected
with ASPs of Android 3.1 models likely to be dragged down by [$ 100].»
Through recent personal experience
with a bad
Tablet purchase (not a Fire - an Android for my eldest son) from an Amazon
vendor, I've learned that when Amazon gives its word, Amazon keeps its word.
«The market is all over the place on OS versions of Android and device hardware, so an online store
with a Google - branded
tablet could give Google a chance to establish a reference [design] that other
vendors would have to move toward to reduce fragmentation,» Gold said.
Finally, Gold said an online store would help Google get «major numbers of
tablets sold to compete head - on
with iPads... this [online store] could stimulate market interest and get more devices sold from all the Android
vendors.»
It often releases a new
tablet OS
with only one «hero»
vendor so that other licensees don't get that version for as long as six months.
As well as new generation
tablets from Apple and the Android crowd, the Taiwan show featured hybrid
tablet / phones from
vendors like Asus and Acer; «netvertibles», which offer touchscreen and netbook modes; and even the first «cloudbooks», a new breed of thin client gadgets
with a browser - based operating system and user interface, as pushed by Google
with its Chrome OS.
The report cites a source who claims that other
vendors might follow suit
with their own large
tablets once they see Samsung leading the way.
The timing of the Motorola release suggest the Taiwanese moles are correct, and other
vendors will be pushing out 3.2 updates - or, at least, new
tablets with the new OS, such as Huawei's 7in MediaPad - from mid-Q3 onwards.
According to a report by DigiTimes on Thursday, the plan will reward «first - tier notebook
vendors» by paying them $ 10 for each
tablet they ship
with an Intel CPU.
Owing to this performance, Amazon dislodged Samsung to become the second largest
tablet vendor in Q4 2017
with a 15.6 % market share.
While
vendors such as Samsung, Asus, and Lenovo have all been a part of the growth of the Android operating system in the
tablet arena, much of the heavy lifting has been done by little - known, regional
vendors based in China that have blanketed the globe
with minimally configured, Android - based, 7.x - inch
tablets at price points of $ 100 or less.
As mentioned before, anyone
with an Android based phone,
tablet, or other device can easily download and install an «app» for any other major online ebook
vendor.
That is changing
with newer ereaders, which are closer to true «
tablets» into which you can load «apps,» such as ones for other
vendors.
Tablets will be much more dependent on the latter than smartphones have been, and the sooner
vendors realize that the better chance they have to compete head - to - head
with Apple.»
Update: ASUS officially announced this morning that the Wi - Fi - only variant of the Transformer Prime will be available through online
vendors starting the week of Dec. 19,
with stores set to receive the quad - core
tablet a week later.
«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», added Ms. Cozza.
Apple's rivals have tried to match the aesthetics and the simplicity of the iPad and mostly all of them have failed; Motorola rushed its XOOM to market to become the first
vendor to launch an Android Honeycomb
tablet, Samsung has had limited success
with its 7 - inch Galaxy Tab but has struggled in its attempts to bring a 10 - inch model to market.
Amongst the
vendors that have a less than 6 percent share of the worldwide
tablet market, Lenovo did particularly well in 2013
with tablet sales growing 198 percent.
«The surge in non-iPad shipments in the fourth quarter was achieved at considerable financial cost,
with sharp price reductions across most of the competing Android
tablets and actual product giveaways from a number of
vendors as part of promotional efforts for other electronic products,» Alexander noted.
«Strong holiday sales of media
tablets were in line
with IDC projections and strong consumer interest in the category while device
vendors scrambled to offer products competitive
with Apple's iPad and now iPad 2,» said Loren Loverde, vice president, Consumer Device Trackers.