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Omdia's latest report shows Apple shipped 11.5 million iPads in Q3 2026, down 27.5% from a year earlier, though it still led the market with 36% share. The global tablet market fell 23% year-over-year to 32.2 million units, its lowest level in nearly three years, with only Lenovo among top vendors posting growth.
After years of hype predicting 8K as the next TV standard, most major manufacturers have abandoned the format. LG Display stopped making 8K panels in 2026, Sony discontinued its 8K TVs in 2025, and TCL cited weak demand for its exit, leaving Samsung as the only major brand still selling an 8K model in 2026. Research firm Omdia found cumulative 8K TV sales reached just 1.6 million since 2015, compared with nearly a billion 4K sets in use worldwide as of September 2024, with 8K sales peaking back in 2022.
IDC and Omdia both reported steep year-over-year declines in global PC shipments for Q3 2026. IDC recorded a 20.1 percent drop to 62.7 million units, down from 78.5 million a year earlier and 9.1 percent below Q2 2026's 68.2 million units. Omdia reported an even steeper 21.2 percent decline to 58.1 million devices, with desktop shipments down 23.5 percent and laptops down 20.6 percent.
Research firms Omdia and Gartner have outlined a set of governance, security, and value challenges that organizations are expected to confront as AI adoption matures over the next year. Their analysis points to accountability becoming a central issue as companies scale AI deployments.
A cybersecurity guide details how organizations can build a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) framework, starting with a full infrastructure audit to uncover shadow IT, redundant tools and undocumented network dependencies. It then recommends piloting SASE in controlled environments, such as remote-worker groups or new branch offices, before wider rollout. The transition is described as taking 6-18 months or longer, during which legacy and SASE systems must be secured in parallel.
Omdia data show Apple shipped 16.8 million true wireless stereo earbuds in Q2 2026, up 1.2% year over year, giving it 20.5% market share even as the overall TWS category shrank 0.7%. Meanwhile, the open wireless stereo segment—clip-on and ear-hook designs that leave the ear canal open—grew 12%, led by Shokz with a 10.3% share after 107.9% growth.
Omdia analyst Theresa Lanowitz discussed with Dark Reading how organizations are increasing investment in offensive security practices like penetration testing and red teaming as AI-powered attacks become more common. She highlighted the emerging role of agentic AI tools in conducting these security tests, alongside the new risks such automation introduces.