Despite the holiday season, the worldwide tablet market declined yet again in the fourth quarter of 2015 (4Q15) with 65.9 million units shipped, down -13.7% year-over-year, according to preliminary data from research firm IDC.
The ongoing issue of liquid crystal display (LCD) oversupply -- exacerbated by China?s aggressive investment in production capacity as well as high fab utilization -- will continue well into 2016.
With the recent introduction of the compute stick form factor ? products such as Asus Chromebit, Intel Compute Stick, and Lenovo Ideacentre Stick 300 ? the market fills yet another gap in which existing devices are suboptimal for specific use cases.
For the full year, the worldwide smartphone market saw a total of 1,432.9 million units shipped, marking the highest year of shipments on record, up 10.1% from the 1301.7 million units shipped in 2014.
Lenovo retained the top spot in 2015 despite a drop in its home base in China as it won large shares in India and Thailand?s education projects, while making significant headway in the ANZ (Australia and New Zealand) consumer space.
According to research findings, toy/hobbyist drone shipments accounted for 30% of consumer UAV revenue in 2014, while the prosumer segment captured 69%.
Over the next 12 months, smart home devices sales will nearly double year-on-year, as the groundwork and service offerings developed over the past few years provide solid impetus for wider adoption.
With demand for notebook PCs stagnating due to the economic downturn and the rise of tablet PCs, notebook brands and panel makers are increasingly turning to higher display resolutions to increase consumer enthusiasm.
