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 %).
He wouldn't provide a specific timeline, but Shin said that Samsung will soon surpass Apple to become
the top tablet vendor in the world.
Not exact matches
The massive growth of Fire
Tablets can not be denied, but Amazon has their work cut out for themselves if they ever hope to compete against the
top 2
vendors.
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.
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.
From a charted section, «
Top 5
Vendors, Worldwide
Tablet Shipments, Fourth Quarter 2012,» Purcell is able to distill some compelling figures in wonderfully clear and worrisome terms:
Top Five
Tablet Vendors, Shipments, Market Share, and Growth, Third Quarter 2016 (Preliminary Results, Shipments in millions)
New product launches from the category's
top vendors, as well as new entrant Microsoft, led to a surge in consumer interest and very robust shipments totals during the holiday season,» said Tom Mainelli,
tablet research director at IDC.
In addition, a situation where the
top two
tablet vendors have captured 55 percent of the market in 2013 compounds the challenge.
Top Five
Tablet Vendors, Shipments, Market Share, and Growth, Fourth Quarter 2016 (Preliminary Results, Shipments in millions)
Top Five
Tablet Vendors, Shipments, Market Share, and Growth, 2016 (Preliminary Results, Shipments in millions)
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 only two companies in the
top five
tablet vendors for Q1 2016 that saw growth were Amazon and Huawei.
With most other
tablet vendors thought by some to be spinning their wheels, Amazon's
tablet could quickly become the
top contender in a market dominated by Apple's iPad.
Gartner this week estimated
tablet shipments to total 118.9 million this year, with Apple's iPad dominating the market, and Amazon and Samsung being the
top Android
tablet vendors.
At $ 199, Google has matched the lowest price we've seen for an Android
tablet from a
top - tier
vendor, and Amazon has been the only company able to pull it off thanks to the money it makes selling other Amazon services on the Kindle Fire.
Samsung copied many of Apple's smartphone,
tablet and even software designs as it rose to become the
top vendor in the smartphone market.
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.
Microsoft entered into the
top five
vendors for
tablet sales, with a Q1 market share of 1.8 percent.
The IDC report also listed the
top five
tablet vendors for Q4 2015 in terms of shipment where Apple occupied the
top spot with 16.1 million units, followed by Samsung with 9 million (13.7 percent market share) and Amazon with 5.2 million (7.9 percent market share).
«Google is probably willing to ignore any pushback from carriers and device
vendors on the update cycle — Apple manages the process entirely internally — but not if doing so means losing the community of developers who build things on
top of Android, including the entire Chinese smartphone and
tablet market.»