While the Coronavirus pandemic had initially caused a decline in global tablet shipments back in early 2020, the following lockdowns drove up sales of these larger screen devices due to the online shift of education and work cultures. Now, a new report has revealed that the tablet market in China has managed to see a steady growth in terms of shipments in H1 2021, despite the global market seeing a fall in momentum.

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IDC‘s Global Personal Computing Device Quarterly Tracking Report has revealed that the the tablet market has grown by 3.9 percent year on year. This marks a total shipments of 40.4 million units. Although, in the first half of this year, the global tablet computer market shipped 80.35 million units, marking a 24.4 percent year on year growth. During Q2 2021, the tablet market in China shipped around 7.15 million units, which was a rise of about 8.3 percent year on year.

In other words, this is indicative of a steady growth. However, looking at the Chinese market’s performance in the first half of this year, it can be observed that the region saw shipments reach a total of 13.4 million units, which marks a notable 29.7 percent growth over the same period last year. This also implies that China’s tablet market saw a growth rate higher than the global market.

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Anuroopa Nataraj, senior analyst of IDC’s Global Mobile Device Tracking Project added that “Although there is still a shortage in the supply chain, there are still plenty of opportunities for tablets in the education market. Online learning has achieved rapid development and has promoted the digital transformation of the education field. Although there is no single solution in the world, many emerging markets continue to increase the use of Android tablets, while schools in some developed markets such as the United States and Canada prefer Chromebooks.”

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