Tablet computer shipments could increase 12-fold, to nearly a quarter-billion units sold, by the year 2015, research firm IHS iSuppli said in a recent report.
Powered by Apple’s iPad, the tablet market has blossomed with 2.3 million tablet computer shipments in 2010. IHS iSuppli projects that 2015 shipments of tablet computers will number 242.3 million.
“The remarkable expansion of the tablet market from 2010 to 2015 will be driven by three successive waves of growth,” Rhoda Alexander, director of monitor research at IHS, said in a statement. “The first wave, which is hitting in 2010 and 2011, was created by the arrival of the iPad and the ensuing tsunami of demand for the device.”
The report also noted that the coming influx of iPad challengers, including Android tablet computers and Windows OS tablets, will propel growth for the next few years.
“The second wave, arriving in 2011 and 2012, will be propelled by a deluge of iPad competitors, particularly Android-based models,” Alexander said.
“The third wave, which will turn up in 2013, will consist of a flood of models based on the Windows operating system that will expand the reach of tablets into traditional computer markets.”
iPad Supremacy?
Despite the many tablet computers that will enter the market soon as the technology has become the new “it” product, Apple’s iPad should continue to dominate tablet computer sales for at least another year or two, the IHS iSuppli report said.
“The iPad’s huge head start both in unit share and ecosystem development will allow it to maintain its market dominance in 2011 and throughout most of 2012 despite the influx of competitors,” the report predicted.
In the fourth quarter of 2010, Android tablets bit into Apple’s tablet market share dominance, growing from 2.3 percent to 21.6 percent market share, according to a recent Stategy Analytics report. The iPad’s market share fell by 20 percent, but still led the pack with a strong 75.3 percent.
But in two years, the iPad could dip below the majority of all tablet computer shipments due to competition from Android and Windows tablets.
“By 2013, the iPad will decline to less than 50 percent of overall tablet shipments, as it faces the double jeopardy of increasing competition from Android-based tablets combined with the rise of devices using PC operating systems, possibly including some from Apple,” the IHS iSuppli report forecasted.
Powered by Apple’s iPad, the tablet market has blossomed with 2.3 million tablet computer shipments in 2010. IHS iSuppli projects that 2015 shipments of tablet computers will number 242.3 million.
“The remarkable expansion of the tablet market from 2010 to 2015 will be driven by three successive waves of growth,” Rhoda Alexander, director of monitor research at IHS, said in a statement. “The first wave, which is hitting in 2010 and 2011, was created by the arrival of the iPad and the ensuing tsunami of demand for the device.”
The report also noted that the coming influx of iPad challengers, including Android tablet computers and Windows OS tablets, will propel growth for the next few years.
“The second wave, arriving in 2011 and 2012, will be propelled by a deluge of iPad competitors, particularly Android-based models,” Alexander said.
“The third wave, which will turn up in 2013, will consist of a flood of models based on the Windows operating system that will expand the reach of tablets into traditional computer markets.”
iPad Supremacy?
Despite the many tablet computers that will enter the market soon as the technology has become the new “it” product, Apple’s iPad should continue to dominate tablet computer sales for at least another year or two, the IHS iSuppli report said.
“The iPad’s huge head start both in unit share and ecosystem development will allow it to maintain its market dominance in 2011 and throughout most of 2012 despite the influx of competitors,” the report predicted.
In the fourth quarter of 2010, Android tablets bit into Apple’s tablet market share dominance, growing from 2.3 percent to 21.6 percent market share, according to a recent Stategy Analytics report. The iPad’s market share fell by 20 percent, but still led the pack with a strong 75.3 percent.
But in two years, the iPad could dip below the majority of all tablet computer shipments due to competition from Android and Windows tablets.
“By 2013, the iPad will decline to less than 50 percent of overall tablet shipments, as it faces the double jeopardy of increasing competition from Android-based tablets combined with the rise of devices using PC operating systems, possibly including some from Apple,” the IHS iSuppli report forecasted.
