The ripple effects of the COVID pandemic continues to impact the tablet market and produced some surprising results in Q1 2022. High demand persists while vendors wrestle with supply constraints and logistical issues also stemming from the pandemic, now in Year Three. Considering this context, Samsung, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple met this twin challenge with impressive growth rates. A better than expected start to 2022 may be short-lived however, as COVID restrictions in China, additional logistic and inflationary pressures, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine all threaten to hold back supply going forward.
This report contains quarterly global tablet shipments by Operating System and Top Five Vendors from Q1 2010 through Q4 2022. Platforms covered include iOS/iPadOS, Android, Windows, and Others (includes Chrome and HarmonyOS). This report updates and supersedes the "Preliminary Global Tablet Shipments and Market Share: Q4 2021 Results" report published in January 2022.