Apple ships the most tablets in the Holiday season, Samsung drops to third

Ivan, 06 February 2018

Tablets are not selling as well as before - Q4 of 2017 saw 7.9% less tablets shipped compared to Q4 of 2016 while 2017 as a whole saw a decline of 6.5% over 2016.

And yet despite this turmoil Apple, Amazon and Huawei managed to see growth in slate shipments - both in the final quarter and in 2017 in general.

Apple shipped the most tablets in Q4 of 2017 and 0.6% more than the previous year while Amazon achieved a huge 50.3% jump over last year's Holiday quarter thanks to some aggressive discounts.

Samsung dropped to third in Q4 of 2017 and saw a 13% decline of tablet shipments compared to the final months of 2016. However, Samsung retained its second place in total tablet shipments for 2017, despite losing some market share.

Despite lackluster efforts from Huawei it still achieved a quarterly growth of 11.9% and yearly improvement of 28%.

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Reader comments

Anonymous
07 Feb 2018
Trp

Samsung dropped to third because people realised its rubbish. Amazon tablets are so much better.

Fearghast
07 Feb 2018
Ssj

Money, money is always the answer. Why bother with developing high end if "nobody" cares for it. Most people probably buy tablets for their kids and to watch vids in bed. I certainly do - I bought 4 (including iPad Pro) and gave it to my kids and...

Anonymous
07 Feb 2018
pdH

So true... it is very hard to recommend schools any other tablet than iPad. And for competition that is bad... iPad is the best device there for reading ebooks, editing video and so on. What is wrong with Android manufacturers that They can n...