Apple's iPad grows to 68% of global tablet shipments in Q2 2012
A total of 25 million tablets were shipped worldwide in the second quarter of 2012 as Apple's iPad increased its market share, accounting for 68 percent of all shipments.
Apple's share of the worldwide tablet market was its highest level in almost two years, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics released on Wednesday. Driven by the iPad, global tablet shipments grew 67 percent year over year in the second quarter.
Apple announced on Tuesday that it sold 17 million iPads in the quarter, which represented an 84 percent increase from the same period a year prior. Total Android tablets during the same period were estimated at 7.3 million by Strategy Analytics.
That gave Apple a 68.3 percent share of all tablets shipped worldwide, more than doubling Android's 29.3 percent share of shipped devices. Microsoft, which is banking on the launch of Windows 8 later this year to help it make a splash in the tablet space, held just 1.2 percent of the market.
"Despite high expectations for companies like Amazon, Samsung, Acer and Asus, the Android community has yet to make a serious dent in Apple?s dominance of the tablet market," said Neil Mawston, executive director at Strategy Analytics. "Unspectacular hardware designs, limited uptake of cellular models and a modest number of tablet-optimized services have been among some of the main reasons for Android?s mixed performance so far."
Android's presence in the market is expected to grow with the launch of the Google Nexus 7, a newly launched 7-inch touchscreen tablet priced at $199, which is half what Apple charges for its entry-level $399 iPad 2.
Microsoft will also make a big push against Apple's iPad this fall, when it releases its own tablet hardware, dubbed Surface, which will be based on low-power ARM processors like the iPad and Android tablets. The Microsoft Surface will run a special version of Windows 8 designed to operate with ARM CPUs.
Apple's share of the worldwide tablet market was its highest level in almost two years, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics released on Wednesday. Driven by the iPad, global tablet shipments grew 67 percent year over year in the second quarter.
Apple announced on Tuesday that it sold 17 million iPads in the quarter, which represented an 84 percent increase from the same period a year prior. Total Android tablets during the same period were estimated at 7.3 million by Strategy Analytics.
That gave Apple a 68.3 percent share of all tablets shipped worldwide, more than doubling Android's 29.3 percent share of shipped devices. Microsoft, which is banking on the launch of Windows 8 later this year to help it make a splash in the tablet space, held just 1.2 percent of the market.
"Despite high expectations for companies like Amazon, Samsung, Acer and Asus, the Android community has yet to make a serious dent in Apple?s dominance of the tablet market," said Neil Mawston, executive director at Strategy Analytics. "Unspectacular hardware designs, limited uptake of cellular models and a modest number of tablet-optimized services have been among some of the main reasons for Android?s mixed performance so far."
Android's presence in the market is expected to grow with the launch of the Google Nexus 7, a newly launched 7-inch touchscreen tablet priced at $199, which is half what Apple charges for its entry-level $399 iPad 2.
Microsoft will also make a big push against Apple's iPad this fall, when it releases its own tablet hardware, dubbed Surface, which will be based on low-power ARM processors like the iPad and Android tablets. The Microsoft Surface will run a special version of Windows 8 designed to operate with ARM CPUs.
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Originally Posted by SolipsismX
It's odd that I don't see one Android-based tablet for every 2 iPads.
Yeah, well, we all know that "shipments" is an entirely meaningless number, especially when your sell through is "quite smooth". If you want to know real tablet market share, the web stats are the best indicator.
I can hardly wait to see what happens when the WindowsRD * tablets ship...
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I suppose we'll need to come up with some new acronyms to replace WART and WIPT
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This is a lie these are "in channel" whereas Ipads are sold to customer
the actual percentage in hands of customer is closer to 90%. and don't get me started on the Kindle Fire brick and so on
that is because those Android stats show they are in the distribution channel not in hands of customer, This has been pointed out before ad nauseum
Android tablets have been on the market for a long time. Where are they all going? Every 3 months we get new marketshare numbers. What happened to the Android tablets from the previous quarter? Are they still the same ones in the channel this quarter?
My question is... do Android tablet manufacturers keep shipping tablets to stores if no one bought the previous supply? Or do stores stop placing orders if their previous stock hasn't sold?
Wouldn't we hear about massive quantities of tablets being shipped back to the manufacturer for scrap?
Someone's got to be buying them... right?
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Originally Posted by Michael Scrip
Android tablets have been on the market for a long time. Where are they all going? Every 3 months we get new marketshare numbers. What happened to the Android tablets from the previous quarter? Are they still the same ones in the channel this quarter?
My question is... do Android tablet manufacturers keep shipping tablets to stores if no one bought the previous supply? Or do stores stop placing orders if their previous stock hasn't sold?
Wouldn't we hear about massive quantities of tablets being shipped back to the manufacturer for scrap?
Someone's got to be buying them... right?
Perhaps we wouldn't hear about scrapping. But we would hear about write-downs (e.g. RIM and HP). I doubt iPad's real share is 90%. But I also doubt it's only 68%.
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Originally Posted by anonymouse
Yeah, well, we all know that "shipments" is an entirely meaningless number, especially when your sell through is "quite smooth". If you want to know real tablet market share, the web stats are the best indicator.
Also to be factored in is that even Android 'sold' tablets can be tossed aside when they don't live up to expectations. I'm guessing every single iPad 1 is still in action being handed down from dad to mom to kid to grandma whatever.
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Originally Posted by Paul94544
This is a lie these are "in channel" whereas Ipads are sold to customer
the actual percentage in hands of customer is closer to 90%. and don't get me started on the Kindle Fire brick and so on
To be honest, Apple tries to maintain a channel inventory of 4-6 weeks for its products...
So, if the channel inventory for a period of time (like a quarter) remains constant, the new shipments can be counted as sell-through because they include replenishment of channel inventory depleted by sales to end users.
I know how Apple does it... Apple does not stuff the channel -- Other mfgrs (especially the smooth ones), I suspect, do!
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Originally Posted by Michael Scrip
My question is... do Android tablet manufacturers keep shipping tablets to stores if no one bought the previous supply? Or do stores stop placing orders if their previous stock hasn't sold?
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast." Alexander Pope.
68%? Is this like the same as how almost everyone I see with a smartphone has an iPhone, yet any marketshare # I see doesn't reflect that? I'm not even talking about my current environment. I travel alot, and literally 90% of the phones I see people using in airports/airplanes are iPhones.
That's no mystery.
People who travel (either for business or pleasure) typically have money. People with money are more likely to buy iPhones and that's the type of people you're likely to see in airports or airplanes.
The high school kids and college dropouts living in their parents' basement tend to buy Android phones.
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Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum
I can hardly wait to see what happens when the WindowsRD * tablets ship...
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I suppose we'll need to come up with some new acronyms to replace WART and WIPT
These are the *alleged* prices:
http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-surface-price-outed-on-swedish-retail-website
If you travel outside North America, the picture is very different. I would say I'd see 30% to 50% of smartphones are iPhones in Hong Kong (was there last week), 10% Blackberry, a handful of WP7, and lots of crappy Android phones (though I started to notice lots of GS3s and Notes). As for tablets, there are A LOT of crappy Android tablets around. I would say 68% iPads wouldn't be too far off for HK, just because if someone wanted a tablet, they have a lot of cheap Android ones to choose from.
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Originally Posted by jragosta
That's no mystery.
People who travel (either for business or pleasure) typically have money. People with money are more likely to buy iPhones and that's the type of people you're likely to see in airports or airplanes.
The high school kids and college graduates living in their parents' basement tend to buy Android phones.
Fixed that for you.
The rise of non-Apple tablet “shipments” is a great boon to the Warehouse, Quarry and Large Hole industry.
You'll see way more Android users if you skip the airport and take the bus.
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Originally Posted by Atanner
You'll see way more Android users if you skip the airport and take the bus.
Ouch!
So with the numbers in, can we stop saying Apple NEEDS a 7 inch tablet to compete with the army of Mini Cheap Plastic Android Tablets that are "eating the iPad's lunch."
An iPad Mini might be nice for variety but it's not a necessity for Apple. Never was never will be.