In third place, with 4.6 million tablets delivered in the course of the third quarter, was Amazon. The corporate greater than doubled the variety of tablets it shipped in the course of the quarter (up 111.3%). Amazon’s international pill market share rose 5 share factors from 6.6% to 11.6% because the Hearth HD 8 mannequin was refreshed with AI capabilities. Most of Amazon’s Q3 2024 pill gross sales got here from purchases made throughout Prime Day.
“There are a number of interesting alternatives for distributors to extend their presence within the pill market – collaboration with academic establishments, leisure and gaming, cross machine connectivity, integrations in healthcare and plenty of extra. Embracing AI-powered options to boost consumer expertise will facilitate progress throughout these areas. Current improvements in AI have begun to draw shoppers keen to pay a premium value. As AI options and functions develop, extra shoppers will prioritize these superior capabilities of their subsequent buy.”-Anuroopa Nataraj, senior analysis analyst with IDC’s Mobility and Client System Trackers
Huawei completed fourth after producing an excellent 44.1% year-over-year achieve in Q3 pill deliveries which was greater than twice the speed that the worldwide pill market grew at in the course of the quarter. The Chinese language producer shipped 3.3 million slates in the course of the three months and the corporate’s worldwide pill market share rose from 6.9% in the course of the third quarter final yr to eight.2% this yr.
Apple continues to guide the worldwide pill market whereas Amazon greater than doubles shipments. | Picture credit-IDC
And rounding out the highest 5 was Lenovo. The corporate underperformed the pill market in the course of the third quarter by delivery 14.7% extra tablets from August by October. World market share declined from 8% to 7.6% as shipments hit 3 million tablets for the third quarter.
General, IDC says 39.6 million tablets had been shipped worldwide throughout Q3, up from the 32.9 million delivered throughout final yr’s third quarter.
