The boom times appear over for the tablet market

The boom times appear over for the tablet market:

It seems like only last year when tablets were seen as a magical growth product that were destined to pick up the slack for stumbling PC sales. IDC now says, however, that the high-end tablet market is becoming as over-saturated as the high-end smartphone market and may experience slower growth than previously projected this year. Essentially, IDC found that fourth-quarter tablet shipments increased 28.2% year-over-year in 2013 from the same quarter in 2012. However, this growth was a marked decline from the blistering 87.1% year-over-year growth that IDC found between Q4 2011 and Q4 2012.



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