18.7 million tablets reportedly shipped in Q3, iPad market share grows

By on Oct 18, 2011 at 10:00 AM
Business October 18, 2011

Tablet vendors shipped 18.7 million units during the third quarter of this year, DigiTimes said on Tuesday. Third-quarter shipments were up 27.5% over the second quarter, but the increase was less than the 60.9% jump in shipments between the first and second quarters of this year. The slower growth was attributed to a weaker global economy, and the entire industry suffered. Apple is estimated to have shipped 13 million units in the September quarter, fewer than DigiTimes’s prediction that Apple would ship 14-15 million units. That figure, however, is still up up 36.8% over the second quarter. 5.7 million non-iPad units shipped during the third quarter, up 10.1% sequentially, but growth suffered due to an “inability to attract customers” away from the iPad, DigiTimes senior analyst James Wong said. Apple’s share of the tablet market grew from 64% in the second quarter to 70% in the third quarter according to DigiTimes’s figures. Apple will reveal its third-quarter earnings on Tuesday evening.

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  • Bringit

    All iPads.

  • Anonymous

    Can they stop reporting this “shipped” “marketshare” BS? Shipped products don’t make marketshare, sold products do.  

    • numetheus

      Shipped products are bought by people that will sell them. It’s a sold product from Apple no matter how you look at it. Besides … it is highly unlikely that they will just sit on the shelves like Blackberry or Windows Phone 7 phones.

      • Anonymous

        Or Android tablets for that matter!

      • Michael Scrip

        Exactly.

        For Apple…. shipped = sold to consumers.

        For everyone else… their products are sitting in a warehouse or on a store shelf.

  • RIMFAIL

    Just goes to show, Apple nailed it. Everyone else just plays ‘catch up’ all day long. Good luck.

  • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

    This just goes to show that consumers prefer quadrant score apps on DROID tabs over a large variety of useful apps on the iPad.

  • Anonymous

    And nothing about how Apple basically banned the competition in order to keep themselves ahead?

    • Anonymous

      You sound so IGNORANT! Should Apple let Samsung steal from them to make YOU happy?! If you created something should I be able to copy it and make millions without paying you?! Of course you’ll have an IGNORANT response but you already know that it’s IGNORANT so save it. LOL!

      • felipe peko

        Ignorant is someone who believes IP can be stolen.

      • Anonymous

        If you can’t tell an iPad and a Galaxy Tab 10.1 apart, you definitely need glasses.

    • Patch525

      Way to spin this into some weird big brother argument. They are protecting their intellectual properties, which they spent millions to develop. If “banning” was all they were after, and their legal arguments were baseless you might have a point. As it stands you don’t. The Tab 10.1 closely resembles the iPad in many blatant ways… Sony did a different form factor, as did Motorola with the xoom; not like thats impossible to do. Even if you hate apple and the iPad, you can’t argue they created a new form factor from scratch (don’t bring up old windows tabs, they aren’t the same) and as such everyone is scrambling to catch up.

      • Anonymous

        You need glasses.

    • numetheus

      Yeahhhhh …. if the banning in one small country is enough to skew the numbers that badly, then Android was in trouble anyways.

      • Anonymous

        One? Small? Ummm… check your facts, bub. Apple is trying to stop sales in several large markets including the US. They’ve
        gotten preliminary injunctions (early bans) in at least 2 countries so far. The two tablets look very different. They don’t even share the same shape. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 has a buttonless face while the iPad and iPad 2 have that very pronounced home button on the bezel. The OSes have completely different UIs. iOS looks more like PalmOS than Android 3.0. The forward-facing and rear cameras are in different positions. The devices have completely different backs as well.

        I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… If you think those tablets look the same, you seriously need glasses.

      • numetheus

        You obviously haven’t been in the smartphone arena long enough to know that before iPhone came out …. every phone was COMPLETELY different from the Sony clie to iPaq to Zaurus. There was absolutely no doubt. These companies had a unique vision and style. Look at what happened after iPhone came out. They are ALL simple black slates. This carries over to tablets. What happened to the unique vision everyone had before Apple released their products? If you seriously think the same vision and stive to be different and unique is still there …. is only shows your ignorance. Take a look at technology before Apple came to the scene kid, and compare. Why do they all have to be black slates with minimal buttons? Copy much?

  • Anonymous

    Read about it here C A S H S H A R P . C O M

  • Max

    How many Playbooks? 14?

  • Anonymous

    Well, that’s the thing though.  With the Android phones getting bigger, this will blur the lines between phone and tablet.  At which point things won’t look that good for the iPad and Apple.

    • http://daindian.blogspot.com/ BostonFlyer

      Funny how apple shareholders continue to laugh all the way to the bank.

      • Anonymous

        Money isn’t everything…  Specs and Market Share are!  So Google and their OEMs are laughing all the way to the market share and spec bank…

    • Anonymous

      Your dumbest comment yet. Congrats.

      • Anonymous

        Oh, well, thanks.  Coming from an Apple Fanboy, the dumbest people alive according to the Goofan (aka Apple Hater) Intelligence Apparatus, this is a major compliment.  

  • Anonymous

    the peach bar seems to be growing as well.  

  • Anonymous

    Its funny how people are so quick to write android off. by the end of next year android will have gained significantly on apple book it. this is exactly how the phone side of android looked and im going to say it will be the same with tablets. 

  • Anonymous

    That sure is a LOT of tablets dude, I mean like seriously. Wow.
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