49.3m tablets were shipped in Q2 2014, according to IDC data, with the global target market growing 11 per cent year-on-year.

Its worth noting, though, that this represents a 1.5 per cent decline from the previous quarter, with a large part of this coming from the shrinking number of iPads sold by Apple, totalling 13.3m iPads in Q2, 9.3 per cent fewer than a year earlier. Apple maintained its position as the biggest tablet manufacturer, though, with a market share of 26.9 per cent for the quarter, which put it well ahead of nearest competitor Samsung, which saw shipments increase 1.6 per cent to 8.5m.

The biggest growth in shipments came from Lenovo, which shipped 2.4m units, a remarkable year-on-year increase of 64.7 per cent which took it from being the fifth biggest manufacturer on the list in Q2 2013, to the number three spot.

You can see how the top five manufacturers have fared over the past year in the interactive graph below.

Perhaps most interesting of all, though, is the increasingly huge proportion of tablets shipped by manufacturers outside of this top five – a number which hit 44.4 per cent in Q2, up from 37 per cent a year earlier.