Top Five Tablet Vendors, Shipments, Market Share, and Growth, Calendar Year 2014

With these preliminary results, (shipments in millions), from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker, Connectikpeople.co can observe that, Worldwide tablet shipments recorded a year-over-year decline for the first time since the market's inception in 2010. 

Overall shipments for tablets and 2-in-1 devices reached 76.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2014 (4Q14) for -3.2% growth.

The fourth quarter witnessed a decline in the global market, while shipments for the full year 2014 increased 4.4%, totaling about 229.6 million units.