Global tablet market grows 11% to 49.3 million units in the second quarter of 2014

The global tablet market rose 11% to 49.3 million units shipped in the second quarter, according to research firm IDC. Despite the year-over-year gain, on a sequential basis the tablet market declined 1.5% from the opening three months of the year. IDC's research director for tablets, Jean Philippe Bouchard, cited a couple of oft-heard reasons for the quarter-to-quarter slowdown. One was the increasingly large size of smartphone screens, while the other was the longer period of time consumers are keeping older tablet models before upgrading them.



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