The guys at Strategy Analytics have published a new report on the tablet industry in 2019, data that only confirms that Apple with the iPad continues dominating this market far from its most direct rivals, where we only find Samsung as a real alternative.
This report focuses on the global tablet processor market and where we find Apple, MediaTek, Qualcomm and Intel in terms of revenue. Apple's A-series processors are becoming more and more powerful and have become a differentiating element in the tablet business.
According to these data, Apple has dominated the global tablet market, keeping 44% of generating income for this market throughout 2019. The second place in the ranking is found by both Intel and Qualcomm with 16% of revenues. Within the Others category, there are brands such as Samsung and MediaTek that represent the remaining 24%.
In this Strategy Analytics report, we can read:
Strategy Analytics reports that Apple, Qualcomm, Intel, MediaTek, and Samsung LSI held the top five revenue share spots for the global tablet processor market () in 2019.
Apple gained market share and expanded its leadership in the tablet processor market with a 44 percent revenue share in 2019, followed by Qualcomm and Intel, each with a 16 percent revenue share.
According to this same report, Strategy Analytics affirms that the market for processors for tablets grew by 2%, reaching 1.900 million dollars during 2019. Apple does not report on the sales of its products, so it is impossible to really know the number of iPads it sold in 2019, but thanks to this report, we can get an idea of the difference that Apple processors make compared to the competition And as the Apple iPad is still the best option today.