Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Shrinking tablet market: iPad faltering, Kindle Fire collapses – Meedia

tech A surprise it is not: in the fifth year of the cycle, the iPad tablet market must synchronously with its flagship losses suffered , iPads and Samsung Tablets are fewer buyers – the appliances from Amazon but have suffered landslide slumps

Suddenly trades Jeff Bezos is back in the game. All three trading days have passed since the announcement of the latest Amazon balance – three trading days in which the world’s largest retailer forget his traumatic Exchange 2014 made and sometimes just grew by 20 percent, or $ 30 billion market value

An unflattering. footnote that Jeff Bezos would certainly like to conceal, fetches the fourth most valuable by Google, Alibaba and Facebook Internet Group, however, in the new week: Published by the market research firm IDC statistics for the abgelaufenene fourth quarter in the tablet market

. The review of the Christmas season reads almost for the entire industry unflattering first time since the beginning of the decade, a total of less than a year ago tablets were sold in one quarter. For Amazon, however, the fourth quarter was catastrophic in terms of tablets. To enormous 70 percent of the paragraphs of the Kindle Fire by 5.8 plummeted to only 1.7 million units sold. The potential iPad killer falling to the tablet market back to fifth place

But even the top dogs had springs can. Apple had with his iPad known loses sales by 18 percent, secures with 21, 4 million units sold, however, further undisputed top position.

Samsung brings it also cuts of 18 percent, with 11 million units sold barely half. The number four Asus, has to contend with declines – the bloodletting is even 25 percent. Only Lenovo was recorded as number three among the five largest tablet manufacturers with a nine percent increase in sales.

Whether the tablet trend in 2015 turns again, seems questionable in view of the phablet competition. Apple CEO Tim Cook held in the analyst conference after the announcement of the latest quarterly figures at least a fiery speech for the latest product line from Cupertino: “I am very optimistic about the long term future of the iPad,” Cook had explained. Whether the optimism but can moor in again increasing sales, the multi-billion-dollar question remains unloved product category.

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