The first quarter of the Tablet PC iPad share decline in Samsung climbed

Beijing on the early morning of May 2, IDC released the latest report said that the first quarter of 2013, worldwide, Apple iPad shipments still ranked first, Samsung and Asus are ranked second and third.
At present, the tablet market is still the situation is excellent: the global tablet PC igogo tablet android shipments of 49.2 million units in the first quarter of 2013, slightly lower than the fourth quarter of 2012 of 52.5 million units, but the annual growth rate of an upward trend. This quarter, Apple's iPad continues to lead the tablet market shipments, but its market share slipped to 39.6%. Samsung ranked second, with a market share rose to 17.9%. In third place is Asus, accounting for 5.5%; Amazon and Microsoft were ranked fourth and fifth, respectively, accounting for 3.7% and 1.8%.
According to IDC's latest report, the Tablet PC shipments last year growth of 142.5% (first quarter of 2012 shipments of 20.3 million units). Apple's market share is still higher than the sum of Samsung, Amazon, ASUS and Microsoft.
Apple topped the list of reasons iPad mini continued strong demand, as well as fourth-generation iPad release time to before the fourth quarter of 2012, IDC said. Because consumers often Apple's products in January and February on the sidelines, that the new products will be released in March. The early release of the fourth-generation iPad to ease consumer weakness in the first quarter of 2013. Implementation of this strategy, making Apple's results this quarter than IDC expected. Although the quarter of Apple's Tablet PC shipments growth of 65% over the same period last year, but its market share has been three consecutive quarters of decline (market share was 43.6% in the previous quarter).
Samsung ranked second in the same over IDC expects to achieve substantial growth. This quarter igogo tablet android 4.0 Samsung Tablet PC equipped with Android and Windows operating systems total shipments of 8.8 million units, an increase of 288.7% over the same period last year. IDC said that thanks to Samsung's smaller screen of tablet PC grab some market share. Asus shipments reached 2.7 million units, an increase of 267.6% over the same period last year. Asus qualifying third, mainly due to selling Google Nexus 7. Amazon's fourth Tablet PC shipments to 1.8 million units, an increase of 189.6%. The ranked fifth Microsoft Surface RT and Surface Pro The company leverages its shipments of a total of 90 million units in the top five for the first time.