New Report on the U.S. Tablet Market Shows Continued Growth for Tablets for the Next Five Years
Compass Intelligence is proud to announce the release of its latest report on the U.S. Tablets Market. This new report, authored by J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D. and Kate Pearce provides a forecast for the market through 2018. The U.S. market for Tablets is expected to grow from 82 million units in 2013 to over 102 million units in 2018 at an average compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.5 percent.
Globally, there is a major paradigm shift in the mobile and wireless computing market. Consumers and businesses are starting the move from desktop and laptop computing to more mobility-driven solutions such as smartphones and tablet PCs. The U.S. market led this paradigm shift and the market for tablet PCs is maturing with the rapid growth shifts from the U.S. to emerging economies.
"The tablet market witnessed rapid growth between 2010 and 2013," said Dr. Purdy, Chief Mobility Analyst at Compass Intelligence. "Emerging economies are now growing at a much faster rate than the U.S. and this is leading to erosion of the U.S. position as the dominant market for tablets."
"The rapid growth for tablets globally coupled with the slowdown in growth in the U.S. gives Google's Android OS a distinct advantage due to its popularity in emerging economies", said Kate Pearce, Sr. Strategist at Compass Intelligence and responsible for the forecast.
The research was produced as for the new Mobility Research service at Compass Intelligence. The tablet market forecast takes various external and internal factors into considerations and the Compass Intelligence team has made painstaking efforts to future tablet sales and transitions that are likely to occur in a rapidly changing market. The Mobility research service also includes the Global Tablet Forecast. Other areas covered in the research service include: mobile security, mobile messaging, MDM, MAM, etc.
Highlights from the tablet report:
The report provides details on the large vendors in the tablet market. Some highlights include:
Market share (and forecast) for the tablet market; by vendor, by operating system, and by form factor.
Breakdown of the tablet market by region, consumer vs. business, and embedded wireless.
The market forecast predicts the evolving paradigm shift between the U.S. and global market and the impact of this shift on market shares, form factors, and operating systems.
The market will continue to witness the convergence between Mobile and Desktop operating systems over the next decade. While it is difficult to pick a clear winner, it is likely that there will be a significant shift in the overall market share between desktop and mobile OS.
