IDC: Apple leads a growing tablet market in Q3

Michail, 01 November 2019

The tablet market showed some signs of life during the Q3 period, with a 1.9% year over year growth. The latest report from the International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that three out of the top five tablet manufacturers experienced sizeable growth as Samsung (-13.9%) and Huawei (-4.4%) lost ground.

IDC: Tablet shipments exhibit growth in Q3, Apple holds the highest share

Apple led the shipments category with 31.4% for the period driven by solid demand for the new baseline iPad. Coming in at second place is Amazon which jumped to a 14.5% market share thanks to its new line of affordable Fire tablets. Samsung now sits third with its 12.3% share, down from the 14.6% it held last year. Huawei has 9.5% and Lenovo 6.7% to round up the top five.

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Reader comments

Anonymous
03 Nov 2019
8ar

The iPad is computer, too.

Anonymous
02 Nov 2019
N70

I'm an android fanboy, but i'm really enjoying my ipad mini 5. I can see why they are so popular.

afronoia
02 Nov 2019
XMF

Of course it is, because currently iPad basically has no contender. Android tablets are usually cheap or low specced. Even the similar priced Samsung's Tab A 10.1 is just meh, though it has S-pen which is a big plus. Huawei and Xiaomi tried to compet...