General offers of tablets fell 14.7 percent in the primary quarter to 39.6 million units, proceeding with a descending pattern from 2015 when the once-hot business sector cooled, said the study by exploration firm IDC.
Mac remained the top vender with a 25.9 percent piece of the pie, despite the fact that its iPad deals drooped 18.8 percent from a year back, IDC said.
Samsung held the number two spot with a 15.2 percent piece of the pie, even as deals tumbled 28 percent.
Amazon hopped to number three, as its minimal effort Flame tablets at costs as low at $50, saw a surge in deals.
While Amazon does not distribute deals figures, IDC assessed it sold 2.2 million tablets in the quarter, a jump of 5,400 percent from a year prior, giving Amazon a 5.7 percent piece of the overall industry.
Chinese-based Lenovo and Huawei were fourth and fifth, with pieces of the pie of 5.5 and 5.2 percent, individually.
IDC said the "slate" tablet still represented 87.6 percent of the business sector in the past quarter yet that offers of portable workstations with separable tablets dramatically increased to 4.9 million units.
"The presentation of detachables from customary cell phone sellers is just starting and represent a genuine danger to conventional PC makers," said Jean Philippe Bouchard, research chief for tablets at IDC.
"Their comprehension of the versatile biological community and the volume accomplished on their cell phone product offerings will permit them to forcefully vie for this new figuring portion. It is likely that those cell phone sellers will use the separable portion to make new versatile processing end-client encounters if clients are utilizing their detachables as a part of blend with their cell phones."
The moderately solid execution by Macintosh was aided by the presentation of the iPad Star 9.7-inch model, one of the new tablets with separable consoles, and also a value drop for the iPad Air 2, the report said.
With the iPad Professional, Mac asserted some authority to a business sector made by Microsoft with its Surface tablet, IDC said.
"Microsoft ostensibly made the business sector for separable tablets with the dispatch of their Surface line of items," said IDC examiner Jitesh Ubrani.
"With the PC business in decay, the separable business sector stands to advantage as buyers and undertakings look to supplant their maturing PCs with detachables. Apple's late raid into this fragment has earned them a great lead in the short term, albeit proceeded with long haul achievement may demonstrate testing."
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