APPLE FOR THE YEAR LOSS OF NEARLY 50% of tablet market
Any market sooner or later reaches saturation. It was the turn of the tablet market. The first sign was the decline in shipments.
In the second quarter of this year has shipped nearly 10% fewer tablets than in the previous year.
The decline anticipated. It is associated with the release of a new model of pulling back. If Apple announced the new iPad model in March, then it could be avoided.
The company Samsung, which ranks second in terms of market share, increased deliveries. Third place belongs to Asus. It shipped in the second quarter of this year, 2.0 million tablets.
Over the years Apple has lost almost 50% of its share of the tablet market.
The top five also includes Lenovo and Acer. They were able to increase the volume of deliveries as compared with the last year and the first quarter of this year. However, they lag far behind the leaders in the top five: Lenovo owns 3.3% of the market, Acer - 3,1%.
