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The tablet wave has crested
Posted on 4/30/16 at 4:52 pm
Posted on 4/30/16 at 4:52 pm
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Jennifer
Booton
Reporter
There’s only one thing helping the tablet market right now—keyboards—and even that is not enough to stave off a decline in tablet sales as consumers grow increasingly uninterested in the devices.
Worldwide shipments of tablets fell another 15% during the first quarter as “overall disinterest” in the product category reached record highs, according to analysts at industry tracker IDC.
Apple Inc. AAPL, -1.15% sold the most tablets of any other company during the quarter, giving it a 26% market share. However, that is a decline from a 27% share last quarter as iPad sales plunged 18%, according to IDC.
The only bright spot was in detachable tablets, which are regular slate tablets with detachable keyboards. Shipments of detachable tablets more than doubled to an all-time high of 4.9 million, making them one of only a handful of mobile device categories currently growing. Slate tablets and PCs have both suffered significant declines in recent quarters, while smartphones have barely held on to their growth, with worldwide shipments rising to just 334.9 million from 334.3 million in the first quarter, according to IDC. Earlier this week, Apple reported its first ever decline in iPhone sales.
The data speak to a broader shift from slate tablets, which are essentially just smartphones with much larger screens, to more functional two-and-one devices, such as Apple’s iPad Pro and Microsoft Corp.’s MSFT, -0.06% Surface Pro, which are being increasingly pushed by brands into the enterprise market.
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Posted on 4/30/16 at 5:15 pm to Jim Rockford
Surface Book FTW
Posted on 4/30/16 at 5:46 pm to Jim Rockford
Man I love my 7 inch tablet.
Posted on 4/30/16 at 5:51 pm to bbap
My tablet is my phone
Posted on 4/30/16 at 6:09 pm to Jim Rockford
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as consumers grow increasingly uninterested in the devices.
finally i'm proven right!
Posted on 4/30/16 at 6:20 pm to SlowFlowPro
I think it has more to do with larger screens on phones along with phones & tablets reaching a level of diminishing returns going forward. Just no compelling reason to upgrade as often.
I just got a new tablet (CHEAP). My old tablet was about 5 years old. When I saw how much faster it was, I also upgraded my phone which was 4 years old.
I just got a new tablet (CHEAP). My old tablet was about 5 years old. When I saw how much faster it was, I also upgraded my phone which was 4 years old.
Posted on 4/30/16 at 6:40 pm to TigerMyth36
Yep it's over. We have 6" plus screens on our phones now so it's just silly to pay for 7 inch or 10 inch tablet now that does the exact same thing.
Surface is the exception because that's just a really really elegant laptop.
Surface is the exception because that's just a really really elegant laptop.
Posted on 4/30/16 at 8:38 pm to Jim Rockford
If there was a worthy upgrade of my Galaxy Tab S 10.5 out there I'd get it. Tablet selection right now sucks imo.
Posted on 4/30/16 at 8:44 pm to SprintFun
Buying my daughter the Surface 3 bundle for graduation. Hopefully it will do her well to start college.
Posted on 4/30/16 at 8:49 pm to LSUSUPERSTAR
Surfaces are great tablets but in a category of their own. There isn't anything great in the Android ecosystem in the $400-500 range right now.
Posted on 5/1/16 at 8:15 am to theunknownknight
Surface pro 3. Pricy, but phenomenal. Portability of a tablet but functionality of a PC. Been very impressed
Posted on 5/1/16 at 12:17 pm to Jim Rockford
Bought my wife a Surface Pro 3. I love it. It won't replace my laptop anytime soon, but I love a tablet with Office on it.
Posted on 5/1/16 at 1:36 pm to crazycubes
I think it's the one iDevice that has proven to be the longevity equivalent of a Toyota 4Runner or Tacoma. I just bought a replacement screen for my old 16GB iPad 2 and sold it to my friend. He replaced it, then bought an $11 WiFi antenna since he broke it during the screen replacement, and he paid me $75 for the whole thing.
This is a 5 year old piece of tech that has had multiple iterations of its form factor come out in the intervening period since its debut. Apple has inserted both smaller and larger, more and less expensive options underneath and above it. Yet it's still humming along and is worth a little coin for a 9 year old to play games and watch movies and videos on.
With the crap people give Apple for their devices wearing out or for designed obsolescence, there are legions of examples of these things still plugging along, if not being repurposed elsewhere in the family or the house.
Oh and here's the kicker...as I type from an iPad Mini 2, my wife is on her 16 GB iPad 2. Still plugging along.
So if you ask me, I think the simple truth for iDevice owners is that Apple has built a product that-for the main use case or cases the market it created out of thin air uses the device for-has maintained its useful life far longer than perhaps the market or the supplier expected.
Simply put, videos, gaming, and media consumption haven't iterated to the point where you can't continue to enjoy them using older devices, which means that folks are content to not update their tech as often as the iPhone model or schedule.
This is a 5 year old piece of tech that has had multiple iterations of its form factor come out in the intervening period since its debut. Apple has inserted both smaller and larger, more and less expensive options underneath and above it. Yet it's still humming along and is worth a little coin for a 9 year old to play games and watch movies and videos on.
With the crap people give Apple for their devices wearing out or for designed obsolescence, there are legions of examples of these things still plugging along, if not being repurposed elsewhere in the family or the house.
Oh and here's the kicker...as I type from an iPad Mini 2, my wife is on her 16 GB iPad 2. Still plugging along.
So if you ask me, I think the simple truth for iDevice owners is that Apple has built a product that-for the main use case or cases the market it created out of thin air uses the device for-has maintained its useful life far longer than perhaps the market or the supplier expected.
Simply put, videos, gaming, and media consumption haven't iterated to the point where you can't continue to enjoy them using older devices, which means that folks are content to not update their tech as often as the iPhone model or schedule.
Posted on 5/1/16 at 1:52 pm to Jim Rockford
Not sure what my Surface Pro 4 is considered, but I absolutely love it. Bought the docking station and this thing has now replaced by Apple iMac.
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Posted on 5/1/16 at 1:53 pm to Jim Rockford
It is mainly because you can't get a new one for free every 2 years.
People wouldn't get a new phone every year or two of they had to pay $400-$600 each time.
People wouldn't get a new phone every year or two of they had to pay $400-$600 each time.
Posted on 5/1/16 at 3:24 pm to TigerMyth36
Love my Air 2 but the tablets are so good, there is no reason to get a new one every year or two.
Posted on 5/1/16 at 4:56 pm to prplhze2000
I've owned a handful of them, but honestly, I've always struggled to find use for them.
A lot of people I talk to claim that with their phone and iPad they're never on a laptop for browsing, and that is bizarre to me. I prefer using a laptop to my phone/tablet 95% of the time.
A lot of people I talk to claim that with their phone and iPad they're never on a laptop for browsing, and that is bizarre to me. I prefer using a laptop to my phone/tablet 95% of the time.
Posted on 5/1/16 at 5:14 pm to Pettifogger
The only thing I use my tablet for is reading comic books and using the Watch ESPN apps during college football.
Posted on 5/1/16 at 5:50 pm to Jim Rockford
Aren't tablets still outselling traditional laptops and desktops?
Posted on 5/1/16 at 7:49 pm to colorchangintiger
I have a MacBook Pro, iPad 2, and a Surface Pro 3.
The iPad gets used ~70% of the time. I would have never bought one myself/was a tablet hater, but I got mine through work and it's my go to for at home couch usage.
The iPad gets used ~70% of the time. I would have never bought one myself/was a tablet hater, but I got mine through work and it's my go to for at home couch usage.
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