Apple confidently led the tablet market in 2021 - Lenovo was in the top 3, while Huawei and Amazon were in the top 5

Apple has become the leader in the tablet PC market for the next year. It confidently takes first place, and shipments exceed the total shipments of Samsung and Lenovo.

What is known

The report was published by the analytical company IDC. First, let's take a look at the balance of power in the fourth quarter of 2021. Here, Apple, with a share of 38% and deliveries of 17.5 million units, also confidently leads, although compared to the fourth quarter of 2020, shipments decreased by 8.6%.

Samsung also sank - by 21.6%. In three months, the South Korean giant delivered 7.3 million tablets to the market, but this was enough to take second place. The top three is closed by Lenovo - 4.6 million units, a share of 10% and -25.4% in volume compared to the base period. Amazon is the only company in the top 5 that managed to increase shipments compared to the last quarter of 2020 (+1.3%). Top-5 closes Huawei with a share of 5.5%.

At the end of 2021, the companies are located in the same order. The share of Apple was 34.2%, and the volume of deliveries - 57.8 million tablets. For comparison, Samsung and Lenovo were able to ship a total of 48.6 million devices, occupying 18.3% and 10.5% of the market, respectively.

Amazon was slightly behind Lenovo, shipping 16.1% of its million tablets for the year. Huawei controls 5.7% of the market. All other manufacturers shipped a total of 36.7 million devices. During the year, the tablet computer market grew by 3.2% - from 163.5 million to 168.8 million devices.

A source: IDC