The move to deliver content over-the-top via Internet streaming got another boost yesterday. Two well-known brands announced streaming efforts.The dominant sports brand, the NFL, announcing they will stream an NFL game in the upcoming season and pay-TV premium channel Showtime…
The Apple iPad market share continued to slide in 4Q 2014 amid stagnating growth in the global tablet market overall, according to the latest market data from ABI Research. Totaling 21.42 million, shipments of Apple tablets fell 18 percent year-over-year…
Tablet buyers appear to be demanding more Windows-based devices, according to new market research from Strategy Analytics. Microsoft’s share of global tablet shipments rose to 6.6 percent, up 1.1 percentage points from a year ago as overall tablet shipments fell…
Worldwide tablet shipments declined 5.9 percent year-over-year in this year’s first quarter (1Q’15), repeating a scenario that occurred in the previous quarter, according to preliminary data from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. 1Q’15 shipments of tablets and 2-in-1 devices,…
A big slowdown in tablet growth is coming this year, as market growth slows to 7.2 percent, down sharply from 52.5 percent in 2013, according to a new forecast from IDC. At the core of the abrupt, sharp slowdown, shipments…
Apple iPad users were responsible for a whopping 79.9 percent of Web traffic from North America’s population of media tablets in September. That’s actually down from 81 percent a year ago, but 1.9 percentage points higher than this past July,…
First quarter 2014 proved to be a somewhat discouraging one for tablet vendors, as unit shipments declined 30 percent. Growth will resume over the course of this year, however, according to the latest market forecast from ABI Research. Branded OEM…
Supply constraints will limit shipments of second-generation iPad minis with Retina Display to less than four million, or possibly, even three million, according to an IHS report. This represents “as little as one-third of the 8.9 million unit volume of the…
SAN FRANCISCO—October 22, 2013—Apple® today announced iPad Air™, the latest generation of its category defining device, featuring a stunning 9.7-inch Retina® display in a new thinner and lighter design. Precision-engineered to weigh just one pound, iPad Air is 20 percent…
Samsung came on strong in the media tablet marketplace this past year with the Samsung Galaxy Tab gaining 5.8 market share percentage points, but Apple continues as the clear market leader, according to Jumptap’s August MobileSTAT. Having come on strong…
Apple iPad users’ share of U.S. and Canadian tablet-driven Web traffic rose nearly 2 percentage points – from 82.4% to 84.3% – from May through June, according to the latest data from mobile advertising network platform provider Chitika. For iPad…
Pricing and functionality are the focal points for tablet shoppers around the world, a shift that benefits Google and its Android mobile operating system more so than Apple’s iOS-based iPad line, according to ABI Research. Though Apple remains the single…
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