The iPad is still the best-selling tablet in the world

The sales figures that Apple offered last week, served to demonstrate that after several years of declines in sales, they had finally stabilized and had begun to rise, albeit timidly. It is clear that the iPad Pro range has been the boost the company needed to be able to hit the table again in this field.

In the latest report published by the analysis firm IDC, we can see how the iPad has not only returned to be the best-selling tablet, but also has increased its market share, from 24,3% in the fourth quarter of 2016 to 26,8% in this last quarter.

If we talk about annual figures, over the past year, Apple put 43,8 million iPads into circulation, while according to IDC estimates, both Samsung and Amazon put 24,9 and 16,7 million units into circulation respectively in everyone, so jointly, both Samsung and Amazon, have not been able to reach the iPad sales figures, as they have fallen at 41,6 million units, 2,2 million units of iPad sales worldwide.

But the figures that attract the most attention are those of Amazon, which has gone in just one year from shipping 5,2 million tablets in the last quarter of 2016 to shipping 7,7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2017, meaning an increase of 50,3%, while Apple's has been 0,6% and Samsung's has been reduced by 13%, being the most affected manufacturer, along with Lenovo, a manufacturer that has also seen how to reduce the number of units shipped in the same period.

Rumors for this year related to the iPad, point to the launch of a new model with hardly any frames, no home button and with Face ID. Regarding the screen, rumors do not suggest that it could be OLED (which would make the price more expensive), nor do they suggest that it could be LCD, so we will have to wait first to see if over the weeks This possible launch and new renewal of the iPad Pro range are being confirmed.