India and Japan telecom markets to push Asia Pacific to lead tablet market

Asia Pacific will become the largest tablet owning region, ahead of North America, by 2016.

China, India and Japan, amounting to 76 percent of Asia volumes, will be the big-three APAC countries.

Asia Pacific will represent one-quarter of the entire global installed base for tablets by 2016.

Tablet installed base will grow 125 percent annually during 2012.

Countries with the highest Tablet installed base at present include the US, UK, China, Japan and France.

Countries with the highest household penetration include some of the smaller or wealthier countries such as Hong Kong, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Singapore.

Household penetration becomes significant in many countries by 2016, the top 14 countries have over 50 percent penetration.

The installed base of tablet computers will continue to grow at a strong pace for the coming years, surpassing 780 million in 2016.

"Since the introduction of the iPad, the tablet market has shown hyperbolic growth rate. Yet, many households remain tablet-less. Price erosion in the premium and high tier segments, as well as the availability of a number of smaller, lower cost tablets, like the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7, will drive further sales," said Matthew McKee, analyst at Strategy Analytics.

North America, Asia-Pacific, and Western Europe to Account for 91 Percent of Tablet

Recently, In-Stat said three regions, North America, Asia-Pacific, andWestern Europe will be responsible for 91 percent of all tablet unit shipments in 2015.

"There is obviously strong potential for tablets, as there has been with other mobile electronic devices. One key difference, however, is that the commercial market also represents a potential revenue opportunity for tablet OEMs," said Stephanie Ethier, senior analyst at In-Stat.   

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