Not exact matches
It has steadily taken
over the market ever since and is being used on smartphones and
tablets that are manufactured by numerous
vendors, including Samsung, Lenovo, LG, Sony, and HTC.
«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.
The remaining niche of
tablets (perhaps 5MM - 10MM total units) will be fought
over by a growing number of
vendors including the Chinese OEMs offering $ 300 wholesale costs to the carriers.
This coincided with the smartphone explosion and the iPad /
tablet explosion, and there was a lot of battling
over which systems, like Android, were going to be the top dogs there, which effected e-book format choices and possible
vendors.
The Worldwide Quarterly Media
Tablet and eReader Tracker includes quarterly shipment and forecast analysis for
over 30 countries including market size and
vendor share along with detailed market segmentation and product attributes such as operating system, connectivity, and storage capacity among others.
As I have written in this column multiple times
over the last few months, just bringing out
tablet hardware without a connection to great software and especially services is a non-starter for most of these
vendors.
Apple's lead
over other
vendors has yet to be truly challenged as it shipped 21.4 million
tablets, accounting for
over a quarter of the market with 28.1 % volume share.
Apple completely owns one and all non-Apple
tablet vendors have to share space with each other which leaves a very small piece of the pie to fight
over.
Q2 2017
tablet sales were down 3.4 percent year
over year globally, despite big gains reported by three of the world's top five
vendors.