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Tablet industry shrinks as Apple preps its iPad comeback

September 1, 2016

It turns out that selling tablets for peanuts isn’t such a great business plan after all, who knew?

Quit the biz

That’s got to be one way to see the recent Digitimes report, ‘Weak tablet demand prompting vendors to leave segment’, that tells us: “the current number of players that is still releasing tablet products is only one-third of the industry’s peak.”

The report is dealing particularly with Chinese white box vendors, but it also reveals most tablet makers are reducing headcount or focusing on specific industry verticals.

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