Bleak future predicted for global tablet sales through 2024 in new market research
Unlike the global smartphone market, which has been hurting for the past couple of years but is widely expected to bounce back in 2020 and beyond, the tablet industry is struggling for more than a little while now and there’s no rebound in sight. In fact, there might not be much of an industry left soon enough, as Digitimes Research predicts worldwide sales numbers will continue to decline sequentially every single year for at least the next half a decade.
Apparently, the general feeling is that “iPads’ price cuts are only having limited effect on stimulating demand”, which might prompt Apple to release fewer new models going forward. While we’re on the subject of individual manufacturers, we should point out Microsoft is expected to defy the overall market decline and boost its Windows-powered tablet shipments “exponentially” in 2019 and beyond, helping the company inch closer and closer to Lenovo’s number five spot in the global vendor rankings.
No words on what to expect from Samsung, Huawei, and Amazon, which are currently the second, third, and fourth-largest tablet manufacturers in the world, so we’ll just assume their figures will follow industry trends and shrink by a small but notable margin every year.