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 pressures, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine all threaten to hold back supply going forward, on top of demand-side pressures from inflation.