Apple and Samsung lead tablet shipments in a struggling market
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Market research firm IDC has published its report on the state of the tablet market for the first quarter of 2016, and it's not a glowing one. Consumers remain disinterested in tablets as a category, and worldwide shipments of these devices-including both slates and convertibles-dropped 14.7% compared to this time last year. That drop continues a year-and-a-half-long slide in tablet sales, which IDC blames on "first quarter seasonality and an overall disinterested customer base."
Apple and Samsung bore the worst of the slump. That's not surprising, since Apple has the biggest share of the market at 25.9%, while Samsung holds the runner-up spot with 15.2% piece of the pie. Those marketshare numbers are down versus last quarter too, from ...