Q2 global tablet shipments fell by 10% QoQ

August 6, according to foreign media reports, according to a research report released by the market research firm IDC on Monday, the global tablet shipments in the second quarter of 2013 were 45.1 million units, a decrease of 10% from the first quarter of this year, compared with last year. Nearly 60% growth over the same period. This sign shows that the tablet computer market continues to grow. Apple's failure to release the new iPad was the reason for the slowdown in shipments in the second quarter.

Tom Mainelli, a research manager at IDC, said that the release of the new iPad will always cause people to be interested in tablet products. In the past, the release of the new iPad helped Apple and its competitors sell. Without a new iPad, the growth rate of this market has slowed down.

Mainelli said he expects the sluggish tablet market to continue into the third quarter of July to September. Tablet shipments will grow in the fourth quarter, including Christmas. Apple and other manufacturers expect to launch new products in the fourth quarter.

Apple is still the leading tablet manufacturer, with shipments in the second quarter at 14.6 million units. However, just as Apple disclosed in its financial report last month, Apple's iPad shipments fell by 14% year-on-year. The IDC report stated that Apple’s global tablet market share in the second quarter decreased from 60% in the second quarter of 2012 to 32%.

Samsung Electronics shipped 8.1 million units of tablet PCs in the second quarter, an increase of nearly four times year-on-year. This is Samsung's market share increased from 7.6% in the same period last year to 18%.

Mainelli said that Samsung is definitely Apple's biggest competitor in the tablet PC market. However, he believes that it will take some time for Samsung to catch up with Apple.

Asustek Computer produces Nexus 7 tablets for Google and produces its own brand of Android tablets. Asustek sold 2 million tablet computers in the second quarter, ranking third in the market. Lenovo ranked fourth with 1.5 million tablet PCs sold. Acer ranked fifth, with 1.4 million tablets sold. After entering the top five in the first quarter, Microsoft, which produces Surface tablets, did not enter the top five in the second quarter. Amazon also did not enter the top five. Amazon ranked fourth in the first quarter.