Channel Beat: Whose Tablet Shipments Dropped 70 Percent?

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For the first time, global tablet shipments declined year over year from 2013 to 2014. In the fourth quarter of 2014, tablet numbers dropped 3.2 percent.

Analysts say a market shift to phablets contributed to the fourth-quarter decline. Tablet users also just aren’t replacing their devices as quickly as expected.

Apple took the lead as the top tablet vendor, with more than 21 million units shipped in the fourth quarter. Samsung and Lenovo took second and third places, respectively. Amazon tablets fell a whopping 70 percent from the same quarter in 2013.

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Chinese IT giant Lenovo increased revenue by 31 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014, compared with the same quarter of the previous year.

Lenovo said 24 percent of revenue is now generated from its mobile business, and 9 percent comes from its enterprise division. The company’s fourth-quarter earnings report is the first to reflect its giant acquisitions of Motorola Mobility and IBM’s x86 server business.

This week VMware invited a select group of partners to sell and deliver professional services to customers.

Service partners who meet VMware’s requirements will participate in a pilot program VMware will launch during 2015. The opportunity could be financially lucrative, and VMware is seeking partners with skills that span the entire SDN portfolio. Partners should be up to speed on VMware’s storage and networking technologies. VMware will look to make big moves in the channel this year with Airwatch.

PUBLISHED FEB. 6, 2015