Apple still leads the overall market despite five consecutive quarters of negative annual shipment growth. Apple shipped 12.6 million iPads in the first quarter, capturing 26.8 percent of the market in volume and declining -22.9 percent when compared to 1Q14.
The explosion of touch-enabled screens used in smartphones, tablets and other consumer devices -- along with improvements in touch technology -- are increasing demand for touch-screen automotive displays used for navigation, entertainment and online services, climate control, energy efficiency tracking, and other activities.
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 68.5 million units in the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15), a year-on-year decline of -6.7%, and slightly ahead of previous projections, according to research firm IDC.
Worldwide IT spending is set to shrink to $3.66 trillion in 2015, a 1.3-percent decrease from 2014, according to the latest forecast by analyst firm Gartner. Gartner said that the rising dollar is chiefly responsible for the slowdown.
Tablets are set to overtake notebook PCs as the largest mobile computing category (includes tablets, MS Windows laptops, Chromebooks, and Ultraportable PCs), new data from market intelligence firm ABI Research showed.
Worldwide PC monitor shipments totaled 34 million units in the fourth quarter of 2014 (4Q14), a year-over-year decline of -4.4 percent yet 1.3 percent more than forecast, according to research firm IDC.
Technology market research firm Infonetics Research has reported that global sales of enterprise routers, which provide connectivity between networks and to the internet, are down 3 percent for the full-year 2014, following a 6 percent increase the year prior.
