Market research company Omdia recently released a report stating that global smart TV shipments accounted for 92% of total TV shipments in the first quarter of this year, an increase of 2.9 percentage points from the same period last year.
Omdia had previously predicted that smart TVs would account for 91.4 percent of the total this year, compared to 90.1 percent for all of last year.
▲ Source: LG Electronics
From the perspective of smart TV systems, Android, which has the largest market share, dropped from 42.4% last year to 40.9% in the first quarter of this year; while the share of Samsung’s own platform Tizen rose slightly from 21% last year to 40.9% in the first quarter. 21.8%; LG’s webOS also increased slightly from 12.2% in the same period last year to 12.4%.
According to previous reports, analysts at Sigma Consulting predict that as early as the second quarter of this year, the overseas TV camp led by Sony, LG and Samsung will be surpassed by Chinese TV brands for the first time in history, and the TV market structure will usher in a watershed. The global market share of China’s top seven TV brands increased from 31% to 36% in the first quarter and is expected to go further in the second quarter, breaking through the 40% market share mark.
