There's one market that's hit hard by bigger and better quality smartphone screens -- the tablet PC market.<br />The tablet sales of major players in the market like... Samsung, Apple and Amazon all plunged in the final three months of last year.<br />Park Ji-won has the details. <br />The global tablet market saw its first-ever on-year drop in sales... during the last quarter of 2014.<br />According to market research firm IDC,... tablet sales dropped 3-point-2 percent in the fourth quarter from the previous year.<br />This is the first sales drop in the global tablet sector... since the devices were introduced in 2010.<br />Apple sold some 21 million units of its iPad during the fourth quarter of last year,... a decline of nearly 18-percent from the same period in 2013.<br />Samsung sold 11 million tablets during the same period, a drop of more than 18-percent.<br />Amazon suffered a whopping 70-percent drop during the same period.<br />Only China's Lenovo recorded positive growth of about 9 percent in the fourth quarter from the year before,... thanks to marketing and sales strategies like selling its laptops alongside its tablets.<br />Industry watchers say,... the popularity of large-screen smartphones like the Galaxy Note and iPhone 6 Plus... represents an increasing threat to tablets.<br />With the high-end tablet market becoming increasingly saturated,... Apple is aiming to expand into the enterprise computing market with the iPad,... following a partnership deal with IBM last year.<br />Park Ji-won, Arirang News.
