Stefan Mileschin

IDC which has repeatedly talked up the importance of Apple in the mobile made the somewhat strange claim that the reason the tablet market is pants is because everyone is waiting for a new tablet from Jobs’ Mob.

Instead of just saying that the global tablet sales slowed during the second quarter, IDC could not resist telling us that the whole tablet market should reignite with the expected release of a new iPad model later this year.

One would think that the whole of the tablet market was dependant on Apple, rather than the trillions of other tablets which are out there.

IDC’s Tom Mainelli said that a new iPad launch always piques consumer interest in the tablet category and traditionally that has helped both Apple and its competitors.

A quarter-over-quarter slowdown in sales was expected given that Apple did not release a new version of the iPad early in the year as it had in the past, according to IDC analysts.

This strikes us as an odd thing to say given that his figures clearly show that while Apple is the single biggest company making iPads, its control of the market has collapsed.

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