Global Business Information: Samsung 8-inch tablet to challenge Apple

Global application of overall economic scale is expected to reach $ 25 billion this year, of which 35% will come from the Tablet PC applications, 65% will come from smart phone applications. Beijing on March 13, the market research firm ABI Research, said the latest data, the global application of the overall size of the economy will reach $ 25 billion this year, of which 35 percent ($ 8.8 billion) will come from the Tablet PC applications, 65% ($ 16.4 billion) will come from the smart phone applications. ABI Research report also pointed out that, in the global economy of the overall application, Apple's share will reach 65%.
ABI Research said that, the application overall economic trends, Tablet PC applications igogo tablets baratas commercialization speed is more than a smart phone application. ABI Research predicts that, by 2018, revenue from the Tablet PC applications will exceed the smartphone application, then total revenue will reach $ 92 billion in global application.
"(Tablet PC) bring a better look and feel larger screen can give applications and content, and therefore creates more profit opportunities." ABI Research analyst Apo Makan Ning (Aapo Markkanen) said in a report. . "Some people may think that smart phone has a larger installed base, which will compensate for the lack of screen size; However, this idea did not take into account a factor that is low-cost tablet PC market. Contests, low-cost Tablet PC even really begun to enter the market. smartphones paves the way for low-cost tablet PCs, but in the end, we believe that tablet computers will prove that he is more reform-capacity mobile device category. "
ABI Research expects Apple's share of the global income in 2013 will reach 65%, the highest in the first place; ranked second to Google microblogging Android tablets baratas the proportion is expected to be 27%; remaining 8 % share will commence between other mobile ecosystems, mainly Windows Phone and Blackberry.
ABI Research does not share in subsequent years Apple and Android Application economy each will occupy to make predictions, but it is conceivable that the 65% share is unsustainable. According to a previously published data show that in 2012 Android global market share of almost 70%. ABI Research has previously predicted that activation of Android smartphones will reach 800 million by December 2013, while the iPhone is only 300 million.
, But Ma Kanning think, in future years, Apple's share of the global application market will remain at very high levels. Apple's share obviously is falling, while Android's share is on the rise. "Makan Ning said. "2018, from the Tablet PC market, Apple's share will reach 57%; view from the tablet PC and smartphone market as a whole, the Apple share will remain above 50%, probably up or down 52%. "
View from ABI Research forecasts 2018 global application of economies of scale, the ainol novo 7 share of 52% means that Apple's application revenue will reach about $ 48 billion, of which one-third is pure profit.
Pursuer Samsung did not seem to relax meaning. In the world of mobile communication (MWC), Samsung introduced the 8-inch Tablet PC Galaxy Note 8.0. Obviously, this range of products in the 5.5-inch Galaxy Note and 10.1-inch Galaxy Note 10.1, better able to fierce competition and their competitors.
Samsung launch 8-inch Tablet PC mainly for high-end users, the iPad mini will have a greater impact. "CEO Chang Ai Media" First Financial Daily "said that due to the the domestic tablet Liucheng market is occupied by the cottage flat, which product to the domestic flat-panel market itself is not large.
He also said Samsung in 2013 to sell 30 million units of tablet PCs is not difficult, in the next three years, the Tablet PC market will tablets baratas continue to grow, but the increase was due to the fatigued and lack of practicality showing declining trend .
"Sell the best Tablet PC knockoff domestic market share of over 60%, the main users of the four-tier city workers, the price of 500 yuan." Said Zhang Yi, Samsung Tablet PC prices will intercept In addition to the low-end market.
Domestic brands like Lenovo, Huawei's market share in the country is extremely limited. "The current view from flat orders, and not much fluctuation." Domestic tablet chip manufacturers staff told reporters that domestic brands of tablet PCs or exported abroad igogo
"It was already white-hot trend for the contention of the panel, the low-end tablet one hand, it is difficult to obtain a more upstream resources, on the other hand it is difficult to price advantage." Upstream touch screen manufacturers Truly Optoelectronics Product Planning Division Chen Xuebin, senior manager, told reporters that international manufacturers Tablet PC price is not high, the domestic models difficult to produce advantages in high-end models have not yet to the stage of the outbreak, from a volume perspective, the low-end models mainly rely on export-dimensional Health.
"At present, the size of the main models tablets baratas of domestic tablet is 7 inches, in addition to a small accesorios para tablet amount of 8 inches, 8.9 inches and other specifications, mainly in the low-end machine." Said Chen Xuebin, some amount of domestic brand manufacturers do not, a some brands even reduce the Tablet PC shipments.
"Generally speaking, the practicality of the Tablet PC is not enough, and not a substitute for a smart phone or laptop." Chang said, most of the users are ainol novo 7 out of the pursuit of the "flip" will select the Tablet PC, over time, it appear Shenmeipilao. "Although tablet PCs will continue to grow, but in the long run, both the high-end market or low-end market, the Tablet PC market growth will slow