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OPLIN 4cast #363: The year for tablets
December 4th, 2013

tabletsAfter Christmas every year, public libraries commonly have a lot 
of patrons bring their new gadgets to the library to ask for help in 
connecting to the Internet, loading ebooks, or doing any number of other 
things, thinking that the librarians will know more about the new 
devices than they do. More and more often, that device is a tablet 
computer, and if early holiday sales are any indication, that will be 
especially true this year, as tablets are grabbing a huge portion of the 
market. Those sales numbers are important for libraries to notice, 
because they tell us what types of devices people will be using to 
access online library services. So how well does your library website 
work on a tablet computer?

  * Samsung tablet sales goes past 10 million for the first time in Q3,
    2013
    <http://stateschronicle.com/samsung-tablet-sales-goes-past-10-million-first-time-q3-2013-6045.html>
    (States Chronicle/Jason Setrakian) "Cumulative tablet sales figures
    for Samsung up to the third quarter have been reported to be 28
    million units. In 2012, the total sales of tablet PC by Samsung had
    been 16.6 million units. Analysts believe the company can end up
    selling twice the number of tablet devices it has sold last year if
    it is able to maintain the sales rate it has achieved till the third
    quarter."
  * Walmart reports hot Black Friday tablet sales led by iPad mini
    <http://bgr.com/2013/11/29/walmart-black-friday-tablet-sales/>
    (BGR/Chris Smith) "Walmart's top sellers include big screen TVs and
    laptops, with the retailer singling out certain hot products such as
    the iPad mini, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and the Call of Duty: Ghosts
    game. Online, hand-held video games and SLR digital cameras were
    among the most popular items. Interestingly, Walmart said it sold
    over 1.4 million tablets during its Black Friday sale led by the
    iPad mini."
  * Canalys: Half of all PCs shipped in 2014 will be tablets; Android
    65%, Apple 30%
    <http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/26/half-of-all-pcs-shipped-in-2014-will-be-tablets-cost-friendly-androids-65-of-them-apple-30-and-most-profitable/>
    (TechCrunch/Ingrid Lunden) "Leading the charge will be tablets built
    on Android - which collectively will account for 65% of all tablets
    shipped (185 million units) with Samsung at the helm. Apple, with
    its growing line of iPad devices, will remain the single-biggest
    tablet brand, taking 30% of the market - and, significantly, the
    most profitable."
  * Samsung looking to eclipse Apple and ship 100 million tablets in
    2014
    <http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-looking-to-eclipse-apple-and-ship-100-million-tablets-in-2014/>
    (GSMArena/Ian) "...in Q3 2013...Samsung was able to ship almost 10
    million units, an increase of 123% over the same period in 2012. For
    the same time period, Apple was able to increase its year-over-year
    growth by only 0.6%, and saw its market share fall from just over
    40% in 3Q12 to 29.6% in 3Q13. According to /ETNews/ out of Korea,
    Samsung is in talks with several Korean panel makers to ensure it
    will have enough supply as it anticipates to eclipse its 2013
    figures by more than two-fold."

*/Surface fact:/*

Tech market consulting company Canalys predicts 
<http://www.canalys.com/newsroom/tablets-make-50-pc-market-2014> that 
the Microsoft Surface tablet will double its market share from 2012 to 
2014, but still have only 5% of all tablet sales.
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