With the launch of iPadOS, the iPad has become the dideal device to replace our laptop, an idea that Tim Cook has been affirming in all the keynotes since the first iPad Pro was launched in 2015, but due to the limitations offered by iOS it did not make any sense.
At the moment, this year it seems that Apple you do not plan to renew the iPad Pro range, so we will have to wait until March of the year at the earliest. With the renewal of the iPad Air, iPad Mini and iPad 2019 it is more than enough, renewal of the iPad range has allowed Apple to increase the number of shipments by 4% compared to 2018.
Strategy Analytics has published its latest report on the tablet industry where it shows us the current and past share of the main manufacturers. According to their estimates, Apple being the market leader. Market share grew by 4% in the third quarter compared to the same period last year, with about 10.1 million shipments.
Despite shipments increasing by 4%, revenue from iPad sales, According to Strategy Analytics estimates, they increased by 8%, which means that the best-selling iPads are the most expensive models, the Pro range, even though this year it has not been renewed.
Apple has shipped 10,1 million units on the market between July and September followed by Amazon, with 5,3 million, whose growth has been 141% compared to the same period of the previous year. In third position, we find Samsung, who has seen how the number of shipments has decreased by 5%. Huawei has seen its shipments have dropped by 18% while Lenovo has increased its shipments by 8% reaching 2.5 million units.
