Water is wet, the sky is blue, Samsung sells more smartphones than any other company in the world, and Apple dominates the tablet vendor rankings. What’s new, you ask? Well, Chinese OEMs like Huawei, OPPO and Vivo continue to gain on the mobile hardware industry’s silver medalist as iPhone volumes shrink, and iPads aren’t doing great at the top of the slate charts either.
Of course, slates in general have long passed their popularity peak, and with detachables still on a slow growth pace, the global tablet market has just reported its tenth straight year-over-year decline in quarterly shipments.
