Worldwide tablet shipment growth has reportedly slowed during the second quarter of 2013, according to the latest numbers from the International Data Corporation (IDC).
The preliminary figures from the IDC showed tablet shipments "finally" declined by 9.7 percent from the first quarter of 2013. However, in comparison to the second-quarter of 2012, tablet shipments were up by 59.6 percent, with 45.1 million units were shipped in the 2013 second quarter.
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In regards to the top five vendors, shipments, and market share figures by the IDC, Apple maintained its first place position. Apple shipped 14.6 million iPads, or 32.4 percent of the market share.
Despite the first place numbers for the second quarter of 2013, Apple is down compared to the second quarter of 2012 when 17 million iPads were shipped, taking home 60.3 percent of the market share. The first quarter of 2013 saw 19.5 million iPads shipped.
Samsung maintained its second place position with increases in both shipments and market share percentage. Samsung, according to the IDC, shipped 8.1 million tablets, which accounted for 18 percent of the market share. The Samsung figures are up from the 2.1 million tablets shipped in the same period last year, which represented 7.6 percent of the tablet market share.
ASUS also saw its shipments and market share numbers increase in comparison to the second quarter of 2012. ASUS shipped 2 million units and secured 4.5 percent of the market share.
"The tablet market is still evolving and vendors can rise and fall quickly as a result," said IDC's Mobility Tracker Programs' Program Manager Ryan Reith. "Apple aside, the remaining vendors are still very much figuring out which platform strategy will be successful over the long run. To date, Android has been far more successful than the Windows 8 platform. However, Microsoft-fueled products are starting to make notable progress into the market."
Lenovo and Acer rounded up the top five with 3.3 percent and 3.1 percent of the market share, respectively.
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