The global tablet market is down in early 2012, according to a recent Digitimes Research, revealing a 30% decrease of the overall market. Vendors will only ship 14.97 million tablets in the first quarter of this year, which is a 30.6% quarter drop. However, the total shipments will rise 77.6% compared to last year, according to the same study.
11 million iPad 2 and iPad 3 units are included in the total amount, while 3.97 million will be non iPad tablet PCs. Of the total, 1.5 million will be Kindle Fire slates, 300k will be Nook Tablets, according to Digitimes. Among the tablet PCs shipped in Q1 2012, 13.3% will come with TI processors and 26.3% will use Android as their OS. ODMs from Taiwan will be responsible for 13.51 million tablets, with a global share of 90.25% in the first 3 months.
Foxconn stays at 83% of Taiwan’s maker shipments, followed by Quanta with 9.6%. It seems like a rocky year, but Apple doesn’t have any problem with that and neither does Amazon. Will the rest be able to perform well enough? And by the rest I mean Samsung and maybe Acer and ASUS…
