Overall Tablet Growth Tempered, But Enterprise Opportunities Remain

By Cameron Roche, analyst, enterprise mobility & connected devices, VDC Research, www.vdcresearch.com

While the global tablet market is expected to contract through 2020, growth areas still exist.

While the global tablet market opportunity is expected to contract through 2020, enterprise line of business (LoB) deployments provide a bright spot for growth. In fact, for LoB tablets in enterprise and government industries/ sectors, the number of units shipped is expected to grow to nearly 8.7 million by 2020, up from 7.4 million units in 2015 (CAGR of 3.3 percent).