Tablet shipments may have been down in Q1, but detachables continue to grow

The global tablet market is not exactly thriving, but detachable tablets are doing well, and they will continue to grow, according to the IDC's research and projections.

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Global tablet shipments were down again in Q3 2017, but most top vendors were up

There's no recovery in sight for worldwide tablet shipments, based on IDC's latest research, even though the leading OEMs aren't doing so bad.

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Global tablet sales slump continues, but Apple, Huawei and Amazon keep the market afloat during Q2

Q2 2017 tablet sales were down 3.4 percent year over year globally, despite big gains reported by three of the world's top five vendors.

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Stagnant iPads retain global tablet supremacy, Amazon and Windows stand out during Q4

Costly, boring, aging Apple iPads saw their Q4 sales numbers decline year-on-year, still comfortably beating rising Amazon and Windows tablets.

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Apple maintains comfortable tablet market domination, but Amazon and Huawei are surging

Any miracles to report between July and September 2016, perhaps turning things around for a long-struggling global tablet industry? Certainly not according to preliminary IDC data, which counted only 43 million slates and detachables shipped in total during 2016’s third quarter, down a whopping 14.7 percent year-over-year.On the bright side (yes, there is one, for a change), sales were considerably on the rise

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