It’s not all doom and gloom for devices other than smartphones. Canalys predicts that tablets will split the computer market with notebooks and desktops in 2014, taking a 50% share of next year’s shipments. Tablets had already caught up to within half a million units of worldwide notebook shipments in Q3 2013, but as traditional PC sales continue to decline, tablets are going to pick up the slack. The battle for the tablet market, similar to the battle over smartphones, is primarily being waged by Apple and Samsung. Both are expected to see huge gains throughout the holiday season, although Canalys believes that other vendors will challenge the giants as tablets continue to become the dominant device. Of the 285 million
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