The research company International Data Corporation has published a report on the state of the tablet market for the first quarter of 2022. As with smartphones, shipments are down from last year.

In the first three months of 2022, global tablet sales were 38.4 million units, down 3.9% from last year. Analysts note that these figures are still higher than pre-pandemic levels, but growth has slowed, indicating a return to the traditional seasonality of the market.

In addition, when switching to “deletion”, people were actively buying tablets in 2020 and 2021, so many do not yet see the point in upgrading.

Apple remains the undisputed leader in the tablet market, shipping 12.1 million devices (31.5%) of the total from January to March. Compared to 2021, its deliveries decreased by 4.6%. Second place Samsung, which managed to strengthen by 3.5%, shipping 8.1 million tablets (21.1% of the market). Amazon came in third (9.6%), surpassing Lenovo, whose shipments fell as much as 25.9% year-over-year. In fifth place is Huawei, whose figures also decreased by 17.2%.

Despite the overall decline in shipments, IDC experts believe that the tablet market is reviving due to new players, including OPPO, realme and vivo. Even Xiaomi, after a long pause, has released the latest models of the Mi Pad family.