Monday, February 20th 2012
Global Tablet PC Shipments Down 30%
Shipments of tablet PCs is bound to go down by 30% in Q1 2012, according to market research carried out by DigiTimes. The various vendors will ship 14.97 million tablet PCs in the first quarter of 2012, dropping 30.6% on quarter but rising 77.6% on year. This figure can be broken down to 11 million iPad 2 and iPad 3 units, and some 3.97 tablets comprising of various other models than iPads. Shipments of these non-iPad tablets will decrease by 50.8% on quarter and include 1.5 million Kindle Fires and 300,000 Nook Tablets, DigiTimes Research said.
Of all the tablets shipped in Q1 2012, 26.3% will run Android, and 13.3% will be running Texas Intruments' processors, the research said. Taiwan-based ODMs alone will comprise a huge 90.25% of all tablet shipments in Q1, of which Foxconn will account for 83%, followed by Quanta Computer with 9.6%, DigiTimes Research indicated.
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DigiTimes
Of all the tablets shipped in Q1 2012, 26.3% will run Android, and 13.3% will be running Texas Intruments' processors, the research said. Taiwan-based ODMs alone will comprise a huge 90.25% of all tablet shipments in Q1, of which Foxconn will account for 83%, followed by Quanta Computer with 9.6%, DigiTimes Research indicated.
17 Comments on Global Tablet PC Shipments Down 30%
I still think they are cool though, but i wouldnt buy one as i have an 11.6" laptop.
Kinda like my girlfriend.
It's a poor show by the PC industry that, yet again, it takes Apple to bring technology to market. And in this instance, it is high pixel density to the tablet format.
Finally, a tablet with print quality display. 2048 in the "y" makes an A4 page readable. Now we just need a decent PDF reader and I'm good to go.
That's surprising, I had expected non-Apple ones to ramp up sales, rather than lose out. Perhaps Windows 8 will hammer IOS.
Foxconn is raising the salaries and pay of their employees, and that cost will no doubt be carried forward to the consumer. And it will probably not matter if the particular phone or tablet you're considering has no Foxconn components.
www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57381308-501465/apple-ipad-manufacturer-foxconn-says-it-will-raise-salaries/