A total of 1.06 million tablets including slate and detachables have been shipped in India in CY Q3 2016 remaining stagnant over the same period last year, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). The total tablet shipments grew 7.8 percent in Q3 2016 over Q2 2016.
Datawind continued to lead Indian tablet market with 26.1 percentage share in CY Q3 2016. The company’s volume grew 73 percent over the same period last year thanks to its fully functional second manufacturing plant in India. Samsung maintains its second position with healthy 26.2 percent growth over previous quarter in CY Q3 2016. iBall, Lenovo and Micromax had a market share of 13.6 percent, 12 percent and 10.1 percent respectively.
Apple could not find a spot among top five tablet vendors in India. The report also said 4G tablet shipments see a steady uptake in India, up by 55 percent in Q3 2016 over previous quarter.
Karthik J , Senior Market Analyst, Client Devices, IDC India said,
Commercial segment continues to grow at a healthy pace accounting to over one-fifth of total tablet shipments in CY Q3 2016 with key contributors being Education, Government and large Enterprise segments. Commercial segment also contributed to majority of detachable shipments in Q3 2016 driving the product category’s volume to almost double over previous quarter. 4G tablets account for almost one-fourth of total tablet shipments in CY Q3 2016 in relative to 15.3 percent in the first quarter of this year. Samsung dominates the 4G tablets category this quarter with its newly launched J max.
Navkendar Singh, Senior Research Manager, IDC India said,
Tablet shipments are expected to drop sequentially in Q4 2016 coming off from Q3 spike for festive season. As a result, 2016 total tablet shipments is likely to decline marginally over 2015. Detachables are expected to continue with healthy shipments in the last quarter of this year to account for little over 5 percent of total tablet shipments in 2016 Vs. 2.7 percent last year.