Samsung was the biggest Android tablet brand worldwide during Q4 2022

Last updated: Feb 3rd, 2020 at sixteen:38 UTC+01:00

Samsung turned out to be the biggest Android tablet brand in the globe during the quaternary quarter of 2019. Nevertheless, things don't appear so rosy when yous have a await at the complete movie. Apple tree continues to be the dominant role player in the segment, leading the overall tablet marketplace share.

Co-ordinate to a new report from International Data Corporation (IDC), Samsung shipped 7 million tablets worldwide during Q4 2019. Its marketplace share in the global marketplace was xvi.ane percentage. In contrast, Huawei managed to sell just 4 1000000 tablets during the same quarter. Amazon and Lenovo sold 3.3 one thousand thousand and 2.5 million tablets, respectively. Apple was the biggest tablet maker, though, successfully selling fifteen.9 meg iPads and capturing over one-third (36.v%) of the global market place.

Global Tablet Shipments Market Share Q4 2019 IDC

When you consider shipment numbers for the whole year, Samsung sold 21.7 1000000 Milky way Tab devices, capturing xv.1 percentage of the global market. Huawei, Amazon, and Lenovo sold 14.i 1000000, 13 1000000, and 8.five million tablets during the whole year, capturing ix.eight percent, nine percent, and 5.nine per centum of the market, respectively. Apple, on the other mitt, sold 49.nine million iPads, capturing a 34.6 percent share of the market.

Compared to the fourth quarter of 2018, Samsung's tablet shipments fell vii.4 percent, from 7.6 one thousand thousand to 7 million. Its sales for the whole twelvemonth fell from 23.4 million in 2018 to 21.7 one thousand thousand in 2019, which shows a twelvemonth-over-year driblet of seven.ii percent. The Due south Korean firm has at least i tablet with an Southward Pen in the pipeline, so sales numbers could rise once again.

Samsung makes the all-time high-finish Android tablets (read our Milky way Tab S6 review) in the earth, and it has a whole range of mid-range and entry-level tablets. It even makes some rugged tablets for industrial use and special variants of tablets for kids. It also launched the 5G variant of the Galaxy Tab S6 recently.

Global Tablet Shipments Market Share 2019 IDC