A study warns that the tablet market will continue to shrink progressively in the coming years

I still remember with some longing when I debuted in the _smartphones_ market with the HTC Magic. It was the time of the original iPhone and I made the leap from Nokia making my beloved Nokia N95 compatible. The screen of the Magic seemed like a dream to me if I compared it with the one offered by the Nokia and let's not say what I later felt when I had the iPhone. The war had begun in the mobile segment to see who offers the largest screen

The battle for screen growth had begunMore diagonal in the new models. I remember how with the Sony Ericcson Xperia X10 the jump to 4 inches seemed like something from another world. Then 4, 5, 5, 5, 5 inches and that's how we got to today, Smartphones with 6-inch diagonals are common and whether they like it more or less they have eaten up a device that came to put an end to the PC and in the end it may be the first to disappear. We are talking about tablets, at least tablets in classic format.

Tablets in the spotlight

And it is that a study prepared by Digitimes has detailed that the world market for tablets will experience a notable decrease in its figures in the year 2023. A fall motivated above all by the constant growth of screens in _smartphones_ that will continue to increase little by little.

Let's think that not long ago, 7 or 8-inch diagonals were common on many tabletsIn fact, Apple dared with the iPad Mini for those who wanted something more compact. Today that user has an iPhone XS Max in his hand. The current standard size ranges from 9.7 to 12 inches. The problem is that in those 12 inches they now have to compete with convertibles and always connected PCs.

The Digitimes report also indicates that in 2018 as in 2019 there will be 141 million tablets distributed, a figure that will slowly drop to 120 million over the years nexts, declining 2-3% each year until 2023, at which time it will experience a significant drop.

In this sense, they report that tablets with 9-inch screens and larger sizes still have a pull, as users want them to replace to older models with screens that are now more similar to those of your _smartphone_ In addition, the educational market bursts in with force thanks to the products that Apple and Microsoft have presented, tablets and convertibles designed specifically for this niche of users.

9.7 and 12.9 inches: these will be the most common screen sizes in tablets from 2020, being the only ones that will have a market . The size of the screens on mobile phones will reach the ceiling in the maximum diagonals that we have today in the market, a brake that will be the lifeline so that even the largest tablets do not end up disappearing.

In this sense, they highlight that only Apple will see its sales increase of tablets thanks to two factors: on the one hand, the strong presence of the brand of the bitten apple in the education sector and, on the other hand, to the best support in terms of _software_ offered by iOS if we compare them with Android or Windows.

Source | Digitimes