Samsung’s
rapid rise in the smartphone market has certainly
put more pressure on Apple than it’s faced in quite some time, and now it looks as though
Samsung may be eating into
Apple’s share in the tablet market as well. The
latest numbers from IDC show that Apple’s share of the global tablet market has shrunk year over year from 65.3% in the first quarter of 2012 to 39.6% in Q1 2013. What’s more, IDC has found that Samsung’s tablet shipments have surged by 283% year over year and now account for 17.9% of all tablet shipments, up from just 11.3% of all tablet shipments in Q1 2012. So while Apple is still the clear leader in the tablet market, it no longer holds the dominant position it used to have despite the fact that its overall shipments increased from 11.8 million units in Q1 2012 to 19.5 million units in Q1 2013. IDC’s full press release on the new tablet numbers is posted below.
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