While the overall tablet market fell in the third quarter, most vendors still shipped volumes above pre-pandemic levels.Īpple shipped 15.2 million iPads, maintaining its lead in the rankings for the quarter, with flat year-on-year growth. Total Chromebook shipments reached 5.8 million units in the third quarter. This was primarily due to a slowdown in education spending in the US. HP felt the impact of supply constraints with a 6 per cent decline in annual shipments, followed by Dell and Samsung completing the top five.īoth tablets and Chromebooks were down after a string of successive growth quarters, the analyst firm noted, with tablet shipments falling 15 per cent year-on-year to 37.7 million units, as the need for tablets to support consumer and education use cases dropped off in most regions.Ĭhromebooks suffered an even steeper decline, with shipments down 37 per cent, Canalys said.
