Sales of tablets are still shrinking -- except the ones that are most like PCs, says IDC
Tablets may have ushered in the post-PC age, but the only ones posting a growth in sales are detachables -- the ones that are most like PCs.
At 206.8 million, tablet shipments last year were 10.1 percent down on 2014. The decline in the fourth quarter -- which, with the holiday season, accounted for almost a third of the year's sales -- was even more marked, down 13.7 percent on a year earlier, according to market researcher IDC.
It was, though, a record quarter for detachable tablets, a category in which IDC includes Apple's iPad Pro and Microsoft's Surface and Surface Pro, with shipments in this category reaching an all-time high of 8.1 million devices, more than double a year earlier.
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