Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Worldwide sales of tablets come down in the second quarter - TeK.sapo

Worldwide sales of tablets fell 9.7% during the second quarter compared with the first three months of the year. The slowdown in marketing this device segment is referred to as “expected”, since the perspective of analysts the idea of ??manufacturers involves betting on a stronger second quarter.

According to IDC data, the three manufacturers more expression in the last quarter – Apple, Asus and Samsung – all declined in sales compared with the first quarter of the year. The biggest drop among the leaders gave up on Apple between January and March had sold 19.5 million iPad sold in the second quarter and nearly five million less.

Apple, which continues to be the manufacturer with the largest share of sales, however staged the biggest drop in market share compared to the second quarter of 2012: at the time the company held 60% of sales charges, now has just over 30%. Samsung, Lenovo and increasing quantity of white tablets b rand contributed to the decline of the apple brand.

“The tablet market is still evolving and as a result manufacturers can rise and fall of quickly “, says in a press release of the analysts at IDC.

 IDC tablets

The level of Windows operating systems was one who grew the most, to evolve positively over 500% in one year – value representing 1.8 million tablets sold at a very away from rivals.

IDC tablets

The iOS Apple secured the second position with 32.5% share of sales and Android cemented its leadership position by growing 162% to 28.2 million tablets sold.

Between April and July were sold in total 45.1 million tablets, a value 59.6% higher than in the same period last year.

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