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A look at the iPads,

A look at the iPads, Shrinking Share, China mixes some Apple procurement,

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It's Thursday, February 26, 2015.

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There's more bad news for iPad sales this week. Business Insider cites new numbers from strategy analytics

that indicate a 20% drop for iPad's share of the tablet market from 2013 to 2014. Worldwide in 2013 iPad enjoyed a 32.6% market share in 2014 that

share shrank to 26.1%. There are a few key problems for iPad's market share. Those include

slowing sales and developed markets, cannibalization of iPad sales at the hungry hungry

hands of iPhone

6 and iPhone 6 plus and the rise of less expensive

tablets with growing feature sets in developing economies.

As for what could slow or even reverse iPads decline, one analyst says big business and a bigger iPad could help.

Strategy Analytics Service Director Peter King says new products such as the iPad 12.9 inch

pro version cannot come quickly enough for Apple as it needs to re-ignite growth and demand in its

tablet products. The firm also thinks there's growth to come

from the enterprise and vertical markets. Of course that's the kind of growth that's

meant to be spurred by the Apple Plus IBM Initiative.

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