Global Tablet PCs Will Face Negative Growth Next Year

Tablet PCs have become one of the hottest products in recent years, but market research firm IDC expects that global tablet sales will suffer from sluggish growth in 2014. The company's latest report shows that the global tablet PC sales this year are expected to reach 221.2 million units, an increase of 53.5% over the previous year. However, it is estimated that in 2014 global tablet PC sales will reach 270.5 million units, an increase of 22.2% over the previous year, and the growth rate will decline.

IDC’s latest report predicts that global tablet sales this year will be 221.2 million units, which is down from the previous forecast of 227 million units. In addition, the company expects that from 2014 to 2017, the annual growth rate of global tablet PC sales will be only single digit. Tom Mainelli, IDC senior analyst, said: "In some markets, consumers have begun to buy larger smart phones instead of buying a small-screen tablet, so we have reduced the sales of tablets. The long-term expectation. In addition, in mature markets such as the United States, since 2010 there have been a large number of tablet computers sold, and the market saturation is already high."

IDC said that in the past two years, the market has tended to be a small tablet, but the popularity of small tablets in the future will decrease because the difference between a 6-inch smartphone and a 7-inch tablet is not enough. So that consumers buy two products at the same time.