In first quarter of the global tablet shipments reach 58,560,000 units

April 25 news, according to the latest data of Taiwan market research firm Digitimes Research recently released data show that the first quarter of the global tablet shipments 58,560,000 units, up 4 rugged tablet pc android.6% qoq but was ushered up to 30 percent decline. Among them, Samsung is trying to improve its high-end and entry-level tablet PC shipments , Lenovo is also working to improve their own tablet PC shipments of products laid down in order to achieve the company 's 2013 fiscal year targets.

However , due to many factors , Apple Tablet PC sales decline in t! he quarter . In this regard , Digitimes Research analysts believe that the gradual saturation of the tablet PC market performance of the company but also for the tablet device shipments caused a greater impact.

It is reported that shipments of Apple's iPad in the first quarter was only 15.85 million units, up and ring were ushered in decline. On the other hand , consumers benefit from Samsung , Lenovo and Asus launch Windows Tablet PC demand , non- branded iPad Tablet PC shipments in the quarter reached 22.31 million units, although this figure is 20 ushered in the chain percent decline , but an increase of over 30 %. In addition , due to the shortage of labor during the New Year and Lunar seasonal factors , cottage Tablet PC shipments in the quarter reached 20.4 million units only .

In the first quarter of this year , Apple and Samsung is still the leader in the field of Tablet PC manufacturers , but their market share gap has been compressed to six percentage ! points. Lenovo now has become the third largest manufacturer in the field of tablet PCs , Asus, Amazon and Google are in third , seventh and tenth.

The first quarter of this year , Taiwan equipment manufacturers , contract manufacturers total shipments for 22,150,000 units, accounting for 60 percent of global shipments . Among them, the area's largest and second largest contract manufacturer Foxconn and Pegatron vendors (Pegatron Technology) Tablet PC shipments ushered in a sharp drop in volume , mainly because the iPad market demand due to lower than previously expected .

It is worth mentioning that, due to take over the ASUS T100 Tablet PC production orders, Quanta Computer (Quanta) Tablet PC shipments in the first quarter ushered in growth and help it regain third place . In addition, because the Amazon Kindle Fire has entered a final order of the product cycle , while Acer began to choose cooperation with the mainland manufacturers Compal (Compal Electronics) Tablet PC shipments in the first quarter of this year ushered in a sh! arp decline.