Things are looking grim for the tablet market

The tablet market may be in even worse shape than we thought. When the dust has settled, 2014 is expected to be the first full year iPad shipments have declined each quarter. That’s according to a new report from research firm IDC. The drop in sales is part of a larger trend that IDC describes as a “massive deceleration” in the worldwide tablet market. The company predicts tablet sales worldwide will still have grown overall in 2014, but the annual rate of that growth has shrunk to 7.2%, compared with 52.5% in 2013.