Sales of tablets in 2015 were down by 10.1 percent according to a recent report by IDC, Apple, Samsung and others all saw a drop over the previous year.
In the fourth quarter of 2015 Apple saw a drops of tablet sales of around 24.8 percent and Samsung saw a drop of 18.1 percent, whilst Amazon managed to increase its sales of its Fie tablets by 175.7% in the final quarter.
This was mainly due to Amazon’s new budget Kindle Fire tablet which retails for $50, other companies like Lenovo, also saw a drop of around 13.5 percent in the last quarter.
Whilst tablet sales have declined, according to the report sales of detachable tablets actually increased in 2015, Apple apparently sold over 2 million iPad Pro’s and Microsoft over 1.6 million Surface devices.
It will be interesting to see what happens with tablets in 2016 and whether sales of detachable tablets will continue to increase.
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