Lenovo rounded out the top 5 with 2.1 million tablets shipped in the quarter. Of all the companies in the top 5, Lenovo is likely best positioned in terms of channel strategy to grow its tablet business and IDC expects to see more of its successful notebook PC lineup migrate into the detachable tablet category. Lenovo captured 5.7% market share in 1Q17, which was down just slightly from the 5.5% market share it had at this time last year.
| Top Five Tablet Companies, Worldwide Shipments, Market Share, and Growth, First Quarter 2017 (Preliminary Results, Shipments in millions) | |||||||||||||||
| Company |
1Q17 Unit
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1Q17 Market
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1Q16 Unit
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1Q16 Market
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| 1. Apple | 8 | .9 | 24 | .6% | 10 | .3 | 25 | .9% | -13 | .0% | |||||
| 2. Samsung | 6 | .0 | 16 | .5% | 6 | .0 | 15 | .2% | -1 | .1% | |||||
| 3. Huawei | 2 | .7 | 7 | .4% | 2 | .0 | 5 | .1% | 31 | .7% | |||||
| 4. Amazon.com | 2 | .2 | 6 | .0% | 2 | .2 | 5 | .6% | -1 | .8% | |||||
| 5. Lenovo | 2 | .1 | 5 | .7% | 2 | .2 | 5 | .5% | -3 | .8% | |||||
| Others | 14 | .4 | 39 | .8% | 16 | .9 | 42 | .7% | -14 | .7% | |||||
| Total | 36 | .2 | 100 | .0% | 39 | .6 | 100 | .0% | -8 | .5% | |||||
| Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker, May 4, 2017 | |||||||||||||||
